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Topic: Ratings reach for the sky!...again
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| popcorn wrote: Gold is a standard measure around which fiat paper currencies move. |
Getting rather off-topic but that hasn't been true since the 1930s! These days, all the major currencies are fully independent entities and gold is just a traded commodity like any other.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_standard
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| superdad wrote: Or play for money pool? (it seems that having money on the outcome tends to make people pay attention...). |
You forget that a `play for money pool' is the same thing as a `who has the fastest computer pool' and `having money on the outcome tends to make people pay attention' means `having money on the outcome tends to make people cheat.' ;-)
Ultimately, online ratings don't mean very much so it's not wise to get too hung up about them. There's no way to stop people cheating; there's no way to differentiate between people who are playing serious chess and those who are just playing for a laugh; there's no way to differentiate between people who are deeply analyzing positions, people who are giving reasonable consideration (say, roughly OTB speed) and people who are just blitzing out the moves.
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