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Out of curiosity and to see where Bob's coming from with his advocacy of having events CFC blitz rated, I wanna see how chess talkers feel about this thing.
Pros - see how strong you are, show off your fancy new blitz ratings, generate revenue for the CFC. Tell people my otb blitz rating is higher than my online blitz rating, etc.
Cons - see how weak you are, have everyone realize that you're terrible with blitz and they should try to flag you in long games, generate revenue for the CFC. Have people tell me to stick with internet chess and quit otb blitz chess, etc.
I know very few people who post on chesstalk actually play otb chess - I'm looking at you Gary Ruben, but I would still like your input. After our limited success - 21 people showed up for our first blitz tournament, we're hoping to host more in the future and get more people showing up. We might even want to have some kind of a Toronto blitz tournament with cool shiny trophies to remind everyone that they too, can be like kids and win trophies and put it by their bedside and show it off to their friends.
Oh yeah, forgot to mention - blitz ratings are from 5-minutes to 59 minutes... I wanna say something mean about it... but I'll stop myself
Cheers, Bindi
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YES! I love ratings, it helps me sleep at night
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Blitz ratings sounds cool, now I can compare my online rating to my over the board rating
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Meh, I don't really care, as long as I don't have to pay for it
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I don't want to pay for blitz ratings, but I don't mind having it once a year if I'm forced to.
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OH GOD NO, have you heard of ICC or Playchess? Just go get your ratings online
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Last edited by Bindi Cheng; Monday, 26th March, 2012, 02:42 AM.
For CFC purposes now, Quick Ratings cover time control Game/5 min ( and an increment is mentioned in the motion of Game/3 with 2 sec., as Egis noted, as far as I remember ) to Game/59.
Organizers may refer to Game/5 still as " Blitz " in their advertising, but there no longer is a CFC Blitz rating list. It has been discontinued in favour of the new Quick Chess rating list, which now includes Game/5 min.
I imagine if G/3'+2" is included, it's because it still gives at least 5 minutes for a 60-move game. If that's the logic, G/4'+1" should be included too.
Last edited by Marcus Wilker; Monday, 26th March, 2012, 11:44 AM.
I imagine if G/5'+2" is included, it's because it still gives at least 5 minutes for a 60-move game. If that's the logic, G/4'+1" should be included too.
You mean "G/3'+2", but yes, that is the logic, as far as I can tell.
Bindi, the CFC Quick Rating system is for games between 5 and 59 minutes.
Blitz is still Blitz, 5 minutes.
Oh ya my bad, I meant CFC quick rating system, I was just pointing out the huge range of time controls that are covered under this system as a differentiating point.
Organizers may refer to Game/5 still as " Blitz " in their advertising, but there no longer is a CFC Blitz rating list. It has been discontinued in favour of the new Quick Chess rating list, which now includes Game/5 min.
Bob A
Bob A. - not quite accurate. I hear rumours about some old CFC blitz rating list, but I have never seen one.
The new CFC Quick Rating System (5 min - 59 min) is replacing the old CFC Active Rating System (30 minutes). Right?
In fact, it still reads as Active Rating on the CFC website.
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Monday, 26th March, 2012, 01:44 PM.
Bob A. - not quite accurate. I hear rumours about some old CFC blitz rating list, but I have never seen one.
The new CFC Quick Rating System (5 min - 59 min) is replacing the old CFC Active Rating System (30 minutes). Right?
In fact, it still reads as Active Rating on the CFC website.
The only old blitz rating system I'm aware of is the World Blitz Chess Association that Walter Browne set up. The Hamilton club used it for about a year. I think I'm still about 1800 on that rating system.
There was a Canadian Open Speed Championship during the 2006 Canadian Open in Kitchener. It was supposed to be officially rated speed chess - whatever happened to that result???
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