Author: Uwe Meißner
Date: 17:43:14 09/12/03
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On September 12, 2003 at 06:47:59, Uri Blass wrote: >On September 12, 2003 at 03:36:17, Uwe Meißner wrote: > >>On September 11, 2003 at 06:39:36, Uri Blass wrote: >> >>> >>>I believe that the system is simple against new players and the main problem is >>>the static numbers that new players get and a strong new player may get initial >>>rating of 1800 and reduce the rating of the opponents when the opponents are >>>only the new players and not players with high rating who escape from playing >>>with players with small rating. >>> >>>I doubt if Tansel is weaker than Nickel and it is possible that he is even >>>stronger than him. >>> >>>I suspect that ICCF is similiar to ICC and players may get high rating by >>>playing against the right opponents. >>> >>>Uri >> >>That's not right. There are very big differences between the rating systems of >>ICCF and ICC. In ICC you can play many times against the same opponent - one >>reason for strong tendency of inflation. You can manupulate your rating by >>serveral methods. In ICCF there aren't such things, you just have to qualify for >>stronger tournaments and this might take some time, that's the problem. > > >Not exactly. > >If your country know that you are at the same level as 2600 players then they >can put you in the first board of the olympiad and you do not need to play >against strong players with low rating . > >It does not happen in Israel and they use only rating to decide about the order >of the boards. > >They do not ask players how much computer time they can use for the tournament >in order to consider the information for their decisions. > >Uri Well, here you might be right, though I do not know such cases. I suppose, mostly the players with a higher rating would not accept a lower rated player to be on a top board (except perhaps a FIDE GM). Besides, the ICCF rating system is not without any critics, but this is another story. For instance can someone start to play 100 cc games at a low rating level (2000) and if he wins most of these games against low rated opponents he will do a jump up to 2500 without having played any opponent rated 2400 or more. I think this is the most crucial case of overrated players. Uwe
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