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Author Re: Ratings experts: Please explain
David Kane

2005-04-11, 5:59 pm


"George John" <george@neosoft.com> wrote in message
news:1112636727.857472.192340@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
quote:

> First, the event has to have at least 3 rounds to be eligible for

bonus
quote:

> points.
>
> The bonus threshhold is the square root of the number of games (or 4
> whichever is greater) multiplied by 10. For example:


FYI, a link to the USCF rating description (by Mark Glickman) contains
the following:

"Please note that the value ``10'' in the formula will revert to
``16'' in January 2003, resulting in greater difficulty to obtain
bonus amounts."

16 is used in the WSRS.


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