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| Posted by judge_hogan www6conf.org 5/01/2008 11:14:24 play online chess |  Subject: Rating of a GMMessage: |
| Posted by ccmcacollister www6conf.org 5/01/2008 14:58:10 play online chess | judge_hogan ... Message: |
| Posted by doctor_knight www6conf.org 5/02/2008 00:45:30 play online chess | hahaha Message: I think he really means, "If given time to establish a consistent rating on Gameknot, what would that rating be for a GM?" |
| Posted by fmgaijin www6conf.org 5/02/2008 01:32:17 play online chess | Depends on the GM!! Message: 2. Within those ranks, there is also a wide disparity of age, skill, etc.--some GM's are old and/or out of practice or were marginal to begin with while others are killers. 3. As many times noted in these pages, every Elo rating system is CLOSED and ratings are therefore relative only to the group of players within it. Hence, one cannot project a rating for an "outsider" except by their relative ability to some players WITHIN the group who also play in an OUTSIDE group 4. Therefore, one would look at players such as Rodog (Senior IM in ICCF) and Cairo (several norms towards IM and SIM in ICCF) and conclude that a ICCF GM with a 2600 ICCF rating would PROBABLY eventually earn a similar over-2600 rating on GK given that Rodog is over 2500 in both systems and Cairo over 2500 in both systems. But nothing is certain, given that a player would need to adjust to the differences between GK time controls, vacation rules, etc., and those used in ICCF play. |
| Posted by judge_hogan www6conf.org 5/02/2008 16:56:58 play online chess | fmgaijin... Message: Thank you, that was very informative. |
| Posted by chessnovice www6conf.org 5/02/2008 17:24:45 play online chess | I agree Message: |
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