Author: Geert van der Wulp
Date: 05:32:43 03/09/04
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On March 09, 2004 at 08:28:40, Rolf Tueschen wrote: >A short question: > >normally Elo gives you more points for a draw if you got the draw against a >stronger player, but on playchess.com it is the other way. I got a draw against >a player with 100 Elo points more. This is what happened: he got 11 points more >for the draw and I got only 6 points more. Sysop said that Elo is automatic. >Then he added the other player probably had played MORE games in the past, >after that the score would stabilize... > >Could someone clarify the question? Thanks. > >Rolf I have no idea what kind of rating system they use, but I think it should never be corrrect. I understand the assymetry in rating delta, but someone should LOSE ratingpoints. Are you sure that he did not LOSE 11 points instead of a gain of 11 point? He had a higher rating than you had, so he should be expected to make more than 50%. Geert
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