Hello Evan and all,
Those players with four zeroes in the rating column do not yet have a FIDE
rating.
FIDE ratings can only be generated by competing in an event which advertises
itself as using FIDE ratings.
Those players on 0000 will have course have ratings in their own country, and
these will have been used by the team captain to decide on the board order.
If you examine the UK team, they appear in rating order, but only once you know
the UK rating for Graham Pennington, which would put him approximately around
1700, give or take 40 points.
Other teams might appear to have players playing out of order.
According to FIDE ratings, this is so, but one must remember FIDE ratings can
be up to, at a guess, 6 years old, possibly more.
This means a player who has progressed over that, say 6 years, has not had any
advance in their FIDE rating, simply because they have not competed in a FIDE
rated event.
Consequently, their real strength, indicated by the rating within their home
country, could easily be 300 or 400 points higher, especially if the player
started their rating record in their teenage years.
The reverse is also true.
Someone who has not played in a FIDE event for 6 years may have deteriorated in
playing strength for a variety of reasons.
Whatever deterioration might have occurred is ignored, and the rating is used
exactly as if it had been generated last week.
Yes, imagine someone who totally gave up chess in, say 2011, decides to take a
chess-holiday and play in a FIDE event.
Their rating when they gave up chess will be used for pairings and rating
updates at the end of the event, irrespective of how rusty they are.
In both above instances, playing in a FIDE event will go some way to correcting
any drift between playing strength and published rating.
Perhaps those players to make the best gains in rating points are playing for
India?
When someone without a FIDE rating plays as an individual in a FIDE rated event
for their first time, then the organisers will ask in advance for as much
information from the player in order to make an estimate of their playing
strength.
This estimate is then used as if it were a genuine rating for purposes of
pairings for round 1, after which score-level is the main factor to determine
pairings.
Who is then paired with whom within each score-level is dependent on colours
and ratings, either genuine or estimated.
Paul Benson.
-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Reese - Email Address: mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent On: 23/06/2017 23:21
Sent To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Email Address: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Re: Round 5 results - 15th IBCA Olympiad, Macedonia
First of all, congratulations on a clean sweep!
Secondly, I hope I'm not the only one who doesn't know the answer to this, but
I'm going to take the plunge and ask anyway.
What's with the players with (0000)? I've seen several so far, including two in
this latest round of results.Do they not have ratings? If they don't have
ratings, how do they get matched with opponents?
Thanks.
Evan
From: Chris Ross
Sent: Friday, June 23, 2017 2:06 PM
To: usbca_chess@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [usbca_chess] Round 5 results - 15th IBCA Olympiad, Macedonia
Headline:
UK win 4-0 against Moldova!
Chris Ross (2158) 1-0 Evgeny Spinu (2182)
Vasile Bogatu (0000) 0-1 Stephen Hilton (1960)
Bill Armstron (1939) 1-0 Constantin Platon (1680)
Gheorghe Cracinu (0000) 0-1 Philip Gordon (1561)
UK 4-0 Moldova
Superb result!
All played well.
Cheers,
Chris
