Author: Steve Lopez
Date: 05:28:13 03/30/99
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On March 30, 1999 at 02:43:56, Dave Gomboc wrote: >Yeah, Yahoo is ridiculous. I played 5 games there, and my rating was 2565. The >only person higher who was logged in at the time was rated 32000, and they >ducked me. :) LOL! Yes, the ratings are (of course) strictly a function of who you play and since you get to more or less pick and choose your opponents (unlike a standard chess tournament where the pairings are determined by the director), you really can't put much stock in them. As I said in my previous post, I saw someone with a 5-digit rating who had yet to win a game; all he/she had done was play people with similar ridiculous ratings and the Elo formula did the rest. There's a set of well-established cheats one can easily use on Yahoo to artificially inflate one's rating and none of them involve using a computer for assistance. I've only played one game at Yahoo against someone rated over 2000 -- a guy rated 2711 challenged me and he resigned after eight moves. The remainder of my games were against people with more reasonable ratings (and some of them were actually pretty good games). ;-) By the way, most of the Yahoo players with 3000+ ratings are teenagers who just use the numbers to taunt each other and establish a pecking order. I'm not interested in the yada yada; I'm just there to play chess.
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