| David Kane 2005-04-07, 6:08 pm |
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"Angelo De Pa1ma" <adpspammersgotohell@tellurian.net> wrote in message
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quote:
> Wait a minute. Are you saying that for two 1800 players, the one who
has a
quote:
> 2300 performance rating over 3 games gets a higher bonus than one
who has it[vbcol=seagreen]
> over 5 games? That doesn't make sense.
>
> "Mike Nolan" <nolan@gw.tssi.com> wrote in message
> news:d2qh2d$ll7$1@gw.tssi.com...
available[vbcol=seagreen]
I don't believe that Mike's statement is quite accurate. The
threshold for receiving bonus points is higher with more
games, but the maximum amount of gain is still higher for
the longer tournament.
Also, in the other thread, you seem to be missing the point
about it being a disadvantage to being paired down. The
point is that wins over players much, much lower than you
(or losses to players much, much, higher than you) are
predicted very closely by your current rating, so they
have very little significance to your rating.
In scholastic chess, it is quite common to have a top
to bottom rating spread of 1000 points in a section
defined solely by grade. It is not at all uncommon
for the first 3 rounds of a 5 round tournament to
have close to zero rating significance.
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