Author: Uri Blass
Date: 01:53:47 01/04/04
I hesitated if to post it here or in the second forum but I think that pgn analyzing programs have the potential to help for better rating system In Israel the initial rating is today is 1350 and the minimal rating is 1300(there are players with rating 0 if they have experience in tournaments in other countries but without international rating but this rating has no meaning and they later get rating based on their performance) people suggest to reduce these numbers. The idea is now to have initial rating of 1200 for new players who are childs who are younger than 10 and initial rating of 0 that has meaning of not having rating for older players(They learned that the idea to give the same initial rating for all players who never compete is bad only after experience with some adults at level of 1800 or higher that simply trained a lot against computers before they started to compete and got high level) I do not think that the idea to give initial rating of 1200 to childs under 10 is good but the problem is that there are tournaments when all players play their first tournament and we need to give these players rating(the situation today that new players who never played in tournament get 1350 is even worse). I think that for the purpose of tournaments when all players are new players it may be logical to have some program that analyze pgn and give rating for weak players. I have ideas of recalculating the rating of old players and reduce the rating of weak players(it is not logical to give new players 1200 when players with the minimal rating of today (1300) do not go down) but for some reason people object it and said that this is impudence to reduce rating for existing players. I see rating as relative and I do not understand it. I suggested even to add 10000 rating points to everyone if it is going to make people feel better(the only reason that I do not like it is that I want to have Israeli rating similiar to Fide rating in the relevant level but it is not very important). The idea to reduce the minimal rating and the initial rating of new players is only in discussion and there is still no decision. Unfortunately I am not in the committe who need to decide. There are more absurds in the rating system. For example a player who play 60 games against players that are 100 elo stronger than him in 3 months and get 50% is going to get more than 100 elo improvement because the games are calculated based on the old rating and he can get 3 elo points for every game(the number of points that he get is dependent on his rating and the time control of the game and the coefficient for players who played less than 30 games is even higher but even I can get 3 elo for every draw with a player that is 100 elo above me at 2 hours per game and if I play enough games at 2 hour per game in 3 months I can get above my performance when my performance is higher than my rating). For some reason people were against my ideas to change it. If you know hebrew then you can read about this subject in http://www.chess.org.il/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3520 Uri
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