Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:57:43 01/15/03
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On January 14, 2003 at 10:57:09, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>On January 14, 2003 at 10:43:20, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>
>>{Game 494 (MoveiXX vs. ACCIDENTE) ACCIDENTE resigns} 1-0
>>Blitz rating adjustment: 2635 --> 2602
>>
>>Movei won a game and lost rating.
>>
>>Uri
>
>that only happens when you are a 'provisional' (haven't played 20 games yet)
>player. Your rating moves around really fast at this point. In other words,
>don't play people so much worse than you when you are provisional :)
>
>anthony
>
>P.S. on the whole, you are right though. ICC ratings are pretty meaningless;
>there is a lot you can do to screw with them.
It's a different "world". If I direct a tournament, _I_ will dictate who
you play. On ICC the two players can _easily_ conspire to "trade" a few
rating points for whatever reason, with no one the wiser.
But overall, the ICC rating system _is_ accurate. You just have to remember
than an ICC rating is valid for the ICC pool of players. It doesn't mean a
thing to the FIDE rating pool, the USCF rating pool, the SSDF rating pool,
etc.
Too many try to make a "Elo" number "absolute" when it is not.
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