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Thoughts on Improving Quick Ratings/CFC Membership
Thoughts on Improving Quick Ratings/CFC Membership
Quick tournaments represent a great compromise for those seeking more thoughtful games than blitz but do no have whole weekends to dedicate to the game. However, there are currently few quick tournaments and the ratings often do not reflect player strength. There was a recent attempt to "fix" quick ratings by setting it equal to the average of the quick and regular ratings, if the regular rating is higher. While this fix was helpful, there are so few quick tournaments that a more radical approach may be required.
I feel like more accurate quick ratings can be a catalyst to an expanded quick tournament offerings that can draw and retain CFC members. A couple of ideas:
1. Increase the k-factors, particularly at lower ratings. Instead of 32 (U2200) and 16 (2200+), use 48 (U1800), 32 (1800-2200), and 16 (2200+).
2. Reset rating to provisional on inactivity. A lot of websites do this. For example a player who has not played an active tournament in 2 years would have a provisional rating with 10 or 15 games (essentially an established rating is a provisional rating with 20 games).
3. Regular reset to floor determined by regular rating. For example, every 3 months set the quick rating to be no less than 300 lower than the regular rating.
How can these ideas be proposed for implementation?
OCA is eligible for 21 Governors / CFC Class A members.
OCA Governors from EOCA (3): Aris Marghetis (Regional VP), Garland Best, David Gordon.
OCA Governors from GTCL (11): Michael Barron, Ilia Bluvshtein (Regional VP), Marcus Wilker, Anna Rodin, Sasha Starr, Chris Field, Nikolay Noritsyn, Vladimir Semyonov, Victor Itkin, Brian Fiedler, Ted Winick.
OCA Governors from SWOCL (6): Patrick McDonald, Hal Bond, Garvin Nunes (Regional VP), Frank Lee, Lee Hendon, Gary Hua. (Until we hear otherwise…looks like Gary may be replaced.)
OCA Governor from NOCL (1): Ellen Nadeau (Regional VP).
Quick tournaments represent a great compromise for those seeking more thoughtful games than blitz but do no have whole weekends to dedicate to the game. However, there are currently few quick tournaments and the ratings often do not reflect player strength. There was a recent attempt to "fix" quick ratings by setting it equal to the average of the quick and regular ratings, if the regular rating is higher. While this fix was helpful, there are so few quick tournaments that a more radical approach may be required.
I feel like more accurate quick ratings can be a catalyst to an expanded quick tournament offerings that can draw and retain CFC members. A couple of ideas:
1. Increase the k-factors, particularly at lower ratings. Instead of 32 (U2200) and 16 (2200+), use 48 (U1800), 32 (1800-2200), and 16 (2200+).
2. Reset rating to provisional on inactivity. A lot of websites do this. For example a player who has not played an active tournament in 2 years would have a provisional rating with 10 or 15 games (essentially an established rating is a provisional rating with 20 games).
3. Regular reset to floor determined by regular rating. For example, every 3 months set the quick rating to be no less than 300 lower than the regular rating.
How can these ideas be proposed for implementation?
There's a much simpler solution. Abolish Quick Ratings entirely and have active and rapid games rated as Regular with K-factor set to half of what it usually is (or a quarter, depending on the time control). This is what they do in Chile:
There's a much simpler solution. Abolish Quick Ratings entirely and have active and rapid games rated as Regular with K-factor set to half of what it usually is (or a quarter, depending on the time control). This is what they do in Chile:
There was time when kids tournaments with quick time control could be rated as regular. Probably additional factor should be set for high rated players not to mess up things for Olympiad selection.
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