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...This phenomenon is not what I am seeing, but there may be views I had not considered... Well, let's focus here. I looked at it from a process control standpoint solely looking at transient (non-steady) state events which would be typical of juniors’ performances exceeding the ability of their ra...

I've done the sums too, just wondering how you got to 40. I'll grab it at some point today and send you a PM I'd like to see this too. This phenomenon is not what I am seeing, but there may be views I had not considered. Well, you have access to the data which is even simpler. Well, definitely bett...

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2026 7:36 pm

Brian Beattie wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2026 7:19 pm

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2026 7:02 pm

I'm intrigued, where does that number come from?

K40 rising and K20 falling. Skews ratings upwards but only up to a point.

I've done the sums too, just wondering how you got to 40.

I'll grab it at some point today and send you a PM

K40 rising and K20 falling. Skews ratings upwards but only up to a point. I thought that was a clever tweak by the ECF rating team. Observation of the FIDE system as applied to juniors suggested it could be notoriously sluggish in revaluing less active improving players to a rating level commensura...

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2026 7:02 pm

Brian Beattie wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2026 6:48 pm

But it does allow juniors who play quite frequently to become 40 points or so overrated.

I'm intrigued, where does that number come from?

K40 rising and K20 falling. Skews ratings upwards but only up to a point.

While a 1700 FIDE rated player in England and a 1700 rated player in Sri Lanka are not the same level a 2000 rated Chess.com player in England and a 2000 rated Chess.com player in Sri Lanka are on the same level. Which means with a robust online system the points that are needed to be added into th...

...FIDE doesn't have deflation issues. It has lighthouse issues. A 1700 rated player in England and a 1700 rated player in Sri Lanka are not the same level... And that is the intriguing part about this experiment if it expands to classical. While a 1700 FIDE rated player in England and a 1700 rated...

...In a lot of the online discussion, the "inclusion" element of this proposal has been played up, with online players saying they simply don't have an opportunity to earn fide rating based on location/affluence/other. Its not obvious to me that they will have any use for an OTB rating if they get ...

..Phrased differently, if we introduced this for ECF ratings at the lower level, how would you feel? How would existing club level players between those ratings feel?... Well, sub 1800 FIDE and maybe sub 1700 ECF a player's Lichess rating is the most accurate representation I have found for a playe...

I would start with the county. We home schooled our kids for about 2 years. A combination of moving, the local school being oversubscribed and Covid all played a part. In Bucks the process that we followed (not sure it was absolutely mandatory) was to notify the council and then they sent out a repr...

It is definitely a step in the right direction. I do question the requirement for the U10s and U12s to have an A category standard rating. Some qualification of either classical or rapid should suffice for these age groups. Rapid events already dominate junior chess over these ages with a full sche...

It is definitely a step in the right direction. I do question the requirement for the U10s and U12s to have an A category standard rating. Some qualification of either classical or rapid should suffice for these age groups. Rapid events already dominate junior chess over these ages with a full sched...

Anybody know any background to Livio Cancedda-Depuis? Seems to have been cleaning up in the UK Challenge and other junior rapid tournaments over the last couple of years, but this looks like something of a performance, even if riding luck to some extent along the way. Has always been a strong onlin...

Older readers can look away now. I am sure Brian and colleagues work hard to interpret the data as reliably as possible. But all a rating does is show a measure of performance. It emphatically does not measure strength. Chess has the problem that one move in six hours can change a win into a loss o...

...I'm not the right person. Working hard on study in term time and chessing hard in holidays maximises career opportunities and is a good chess development strategy... Well, that vision is aligned with mine so I would say that makes you the right person. Unfortunately, that is not what I have seen...