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Re: Which rating should we use?
That's quite the pejorative statement about our neighbors to the south.
But, even if true, I in no way would want to set my policies like that - to deliberately disadvantage foreign players. I would be offended if someone claimed that of me. I suspect the reason for Larry's question is to establish what would be the fairest and most consistent policy for all players.
Elsewhere in the thread, it is apparent that there is no agreement on what a good conversion to USCF to FIDE to FQE to CFC is, let alone CFC to India. In principle, it's a complicated topic and hard for anyone to be sure. I'm not even sure what the conversion of BC CFC is to Ontario CFC! We typically do it at par. I'm not sure why some dismiss Indian ratings out of hand but see no reason to ignore them myself apart from not having any experience in what a good conversion rate would be.
This lack of agreement on conversion rates all supports the policy that you should pick a rating system and use it. That there are players whose ratings in that system are obsolete or based on too few games means flexibility and judgement is required. In Larry's particular case, not enough information is supplied (as to number of games rated and recency of those games in each system.)
Originally posted by Victor Plotkin
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But, even if true, I in no way would want to set my policies like that - to deliberately disadvantage foreign players. I would be offended if someone claimed that of me. I suspect the reason for Larry's question is to establish what would be the fairest and most consistent policy for all players.
Elsewhere in the thread, it is apparent that there is no agreement on what a good conversion to USCF to FIDE to FQE to CFC is, let alone CFC to India. In principle, it's a complicated topic and hard for anyone to be sure. I'm not even sure what the conversion of BC CFC is to Ontario CFC! We typically do it at par. I'm not sure why some dismiss Indian ratings out of hand but see no reason to ignore them myself apart from not having any experience in what a good conversion rate would be.
This lack of agreement on conversion rates all supports the policy that you should pick a rating system and use it. That there are players whose ratings in that system are obsolete or based on too few games means flexibility and judgement is required. In Larry's particular case, not enough information is supplied (as to number of games rated and recency of those games in each system.)
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