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Well, Duncan, I was noticing in the Friday Globe and Mail (Oct. 22nd), in your sport curling, the Olympic womens silver medalist Cheryl Bernard and her Silver medal are featured. You probably recall how it got to be a silver rather than a gold.
Silver in the Olympics isn't really that bad, is it Duncan? When you get right down to it bronze isn't too bad either. It's not gold but it really isn't bad.
Anyhow, she's shopping for a sponsor. It seems a sponsor for the 2011 season "fell through". Now, I have no idea what "fell through" means but as a result, the newspaper article says her rink will appear on a trio of donated billboards with the announcement "TEAM SPONSORS WANTED ... Hurry Hard!".
Do you look at performance ratings as an indication of how the players performed in relation to their own strength and rating?
As I posted earlier, I looked at my own (Chessbase calculated, based on regular/Active CFC ratings) performance rating with the Caro as Black, and took it heavily into consideration appraising my performance with the defence so far. When regarding the Caro as a big success so far for me, I also took into account whether I was much worse in any of my games out of this opening, which I actually haven't been so far, in something like 20+ games. However I've yet to be tested in those opening lines that I fear the most.
In my Chessbase provided calculations I didn't include games with players below 1800 (about 400+ points below my own rating at least, on average), since it seems they actually can affect my performance rating negatively in Chessbase's calculations, when lumped in with games against better opponents, even if I won all those games (which I did).
As for your disagreement about our teams' FIDE performance ratings with Duncan, if the goal is seen as striving for norms then you have a point. Otherwise it seems to me Duncan has valid points about some of the opposition being under- or un- rated. I did notice that in the link from Gerry that I provided earlier, the new FIDE ratings of most team members did improve on the old ones, to varying degrees. However I am not a guru when it comes to evaluating the significance of performance ratings.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
Short might take exception to being called an 1800 player by you. His blunder was that bad, but still, you're being a bit harsh.
We're not talking about Nigel Short, who has an established OTB rating in the 2600s. We're talking about your opponent, who has a provisional OTB rating of 1698.
We're not talking about Nigel Short, who has an established OTB rating in the 2600s. We're talking about your opponent, who has a provisional OTB rating of 1698.
Certainly we are talking about Short. Bindi was talking about falling into traps, I mentioned Short falling into a trap and then you jumped in. Short played like an 1800 player.
White taking the pawn on f4 in the Kings Gambit is almost thematic. What does he do? He took the pawn at c4 instead, which was completely losing.
That game got published in the Toronto Star as I recall.
Might I make a suggestion, sonny? If you want to catch a fish you have to use a bit of bait.
I was talking about how I viewed the performance ratings for the teams, which is related to other posts in this thread (including your original one to me about the teams being third rate), besides to what you asked me last (about performance ratings). I ignored any unpleasant aspects of this thread that you might be refering to. Give me the benefit of the doubt, please.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
I was talking about how I viewed the performance ratings for the teams, which is related to other posts in this thread (including your original one to me about the teams being third rate), besides to what you asked me last (about performance ratings). I ignored any unpleasant aspects of this thread that you might be refering to. Give me the benefit of the doubt, please.
Where did I tell you the teams were third rate. What I wrote was: "Canada is a third world chess power where the players appear to be generally over rated. "
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