| Angelo DePalma 2004-09-30, 12:47 am |
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Did you just get out of a mental asylum?
ICC ratings are high for a number of reasons:
1. different time controls cater to different player specialties. For
example my strong game is 3-0
2. higher K values for all players when calculating new ratings
3. a higher percentage than you'll ever get in a Saturday Swiss of
sweet-spot matchups. What I mean is that a very experienced, very
skilled-mousing 2500 can win a lot of points playing 2300 players who are
less experienced and who are perhaps not as good at moving the mouse around
4. the almost complete absence of seriously under-rated players. Your rating
moves so quickly on ICC, you don't stay at "1800 strength with a 1500
rating" for very long. Contrast this to USCF ratings, where you have to have
several 2000+ performance tournaments go move quickly from 1500 to 1800.
"Chess For Anyone" <akantor@fsinter.net> wrote in message
news:8ae5033e.0409282037.5a0d3eb@posting.google.com...
quote:
> USCF chess will always be far superior to ICC or any online chess
> server. The amount of cheating going on is unbelievable. ICC can't
> control it. Why do you think everyone's rating is so high. Online
> chess must stop!
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