Author: Tony Werten
Date: 04:53:01 07/10/03
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On July 10, 2003 at 06:29:10, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: >On July 10, 2003 at 02:19:15, Tony Werten wrote: > >>If the rating is inflated by 10 % then the difference between 2 ratings is also >>inflated by 10% >> > >It is the first time I read about rating inflation in terms of percentage, which >does not make any sense. >Usually, it is spoken of rating inflation or deflation simply in rating points >(like inflation of 40 points, for example), which makes sense. Could be. My guess however was that higher ratings get more inflated than lower ratings. I don't know if that's correct, it just seem logic. Come to think of it, it seems more logic the different way around. I feel a headache coming up :( Tony >Now, wheter there is inflation in the SSDF list, or in the FIDE list, or if SSDF >inflates faster than FIDE (due to a much higher number of games played in the >same time period), I do not know, those are difficult questions. >José. > >>This shouldn't be to difficult to check. A rating difference of 40 points should >>give a certain winpercentage. Did Shredder get this winpercentage ? Or did it >>only get the winpercentage against 200 points lower rated opponents ? >> >>Tony >>
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