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Topic: The ELO system is wrong and should be chanced
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| Players with provisional rating should only be allowed in Open Tournaments. |
^ I agree with this.
(Nice site btw, I'm looking forward to playing some games here.)
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I think I agree with you, void. At the time I started the auto-tournaments there were very few established players, so it didn't make sense to provide tournaments only for them. Now the site has grown a lot and it may make sense to limit all the tournaments except the OPEN one to established players. Opinions?
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The ELO system has been the standard for a very long time. Like any system it can bebent and twisted. If someone wants to brag about an internet chess rating let them, it means nothing. I do agree with only letting Provisional players into the open tournaments. If you get someone who has played 1 game vs a 1500 and wins, they can enter a master tournament. Against other 1900+ players they will probably lose and every body gets 2 easy wins. Kind of waters the tourney down I think.
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I think it is not a good idea to let provisional players play only in Open Tournaments, since this would be discouraging for new strong players. If such a player is only allowed to play in Open Tournaments, his average opponents rating will be 1500, and if he wins all his 25 first games against such an average, his established rating will only be about 1900, which most likely is several 100 points below his true strength.
After just one finished game, I entered an Expert Tournament (2200+) and it still remains to be shown that my presence there is "watering down" the tournament.
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i think the only "unfair" part of the rating system is that i gain points if i beat (or draw a higher rated provisional) but *don't lose any points if i lose*. that is what leads to artificially high ratings in my humble opinion
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