Re: The Rating of Chess Players, Past and Present, by Arpad Elo reprinted today

On Sat, 10 May 2008 09:34:49 -0400, "Chess One" <OneChess@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:


>... I discovered that Ken Sloan 
>could offer no explanation for the complete absense of quality control at

>USCF's rating department which permitted the situation, and secondly,
that 
>those who proposed Tanner's award for a master title also couldn't spot
the 
>cheat.

Phil confuses quality control with fraud detection.  The best guard
against the latter is free and open public access to rating and event
history, and an open forum for members' questions and comments about
what appear to be ratings anomalies (named or otherwise, Phil, heh,
heh, heh).

Phil's prattle about QC vis-a-vis titles is ironic, given his aid,
comfort and general flackery in favor of questionable claims by one
well known USCF board member.