Author: Uri Blass
Date: 23:11:26 01/16/03
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On January 17, 2003 at 00:17:34, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 16, 2003 at 10:51:28, Peter Hegger wrote: > >>Hello, >>I still own the first chess computer I ever bought. It's a Fidelity Electronics >>"Chess Challenger 7" I bought it brand new in 1979 for around $200. It plays >>terrible chess and would be lucky to have an 1100 or 1200 rating. >>My 8 year old grandson is getting quite interested in chess and he likes to play >>against it. He's around the 900 or 1000 level right now so they're a pretty good >>match. >>Regards, >>Peter > > > >900 elo does not exist. An absolute beginner has an elo rating of 1000. > > > > Christophe I think that things are dependent in the country. In Israel beginners are "stronger" and get initial rating of 1350 and the rating can go down only to 1300 In the past beginners in Israel were even "stronger" and got an initial rating of 1450 and could not lose rating. To be more correct when I say beginners I mean to players that never played in tournament for rating. These players are not always beginners and often they have experience of a lot of games and when I played my first tournament game when I was a child I had already experience of more than 100 games not in tournaments but it did not help me to get better than 3.5/11 because most of the opponents were adults that also had experience in not tournament games. The level of the players is dependent on the tournament and the same player can increase her(his) rating from 1350 to 1500 or reduce it from 1350 to 1300 depends on the tournament that she(he) prefers to play. Uri
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