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

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> On May 10, 1:58 pm, The Historian <neil.thehistor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>> > 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.
>
>  "Sup****t" from the nearly-an-IM is, in effect,
> precisely the opposite.  It's akin to lending
> "sup****t" to vegetarianism, by stating that
> Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian.

**2 geniuses discuss rating systems, completely ignoring looking at what 
goes on at USCF. Having done that,  what can be more natural [for them]
than 
to mention Hitler? It hardly matters what any nominal topic is, when you 
have ratings-envy. Neither genius can figure out...

> Leaving aside his own well-known claims to being "nearly an IM", of
> course, and his alleged 2450 rating.

  Not so fast!  Mr. IMnes' actual claim was that
/in Europe/ he was once a nearly-an-IM with a
[presumably FIDE] rating of 2450.

**[I love the presumably <g>] That if I could play a season or two at 
2400 -uscf equivalent- after taking 20 years away from chess still manage 
2200 OTB, then that is even possible!

  That seems
to zap the idea of him claiming to have had such
a USCF rating, since the USCF has not yet
taken over jurisdiction of Europe (one cannot
predict the future, however...).

**Help ***** is sick of strong players! So sick that that like Brennan it 
becomes his /only/ topic!

    NOW TO THE TOPIC(S)

**Anyone interested in chess ratings could *****s 3 things -

(a) Has Sloan abboragated anyone's copyright
(b) do rating ceilings and floors exist withing Elo's system, and
(c) what alternatives to USCF's 'award' system are there? [see Alekhine's 
Parrot this week at www.chessville.com for a precis of an alternate
system, 
as declaimed by its originator]

Phil Innes




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