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Subject: Re: Comments of latest SSDF list - Nine basic questions

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 14:10:09 06/04/02

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On June 04, 2002 at 14:02:42, Rolf Tueschen wrote:
>On June 04, 2002 at 10:59:50, Peter Fendrich wrote:
[snip]
>>Look at the German ratings compared to FIDE. I haven't seen them but can bet on
>>that they are different.
>>
>>Peter
>
>Yes, much lower, about 100 points and more.

This (along with USCF or BSCF and some others) is an interesting case, because
it might be possible to create a formula which will perform a fairly accurate
translation.

That is because there are many people who are members of the national chess
organizations and also members of FIDE.

I know that there have been attempts at this.  I don't think there is a lot of
value to the numbers, however, because the conversion functions do not give
error bars.  Therefore (supposing for instance 100 ELO difference in the German
case as an approximation) is it 100 ELO +/- 10 or 100 ELO +/- 150!



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