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Hugh , I think I finally understand where that 1854 FQE rating comes from . I might have played a tournament a long long long time ago when I was in Ottawa on a family vacation , I must have been 10 years old and had just started playing chess . I must have scored a rating of 16xx during that tournament. I then played the Canada Open a couple of years ago . The average of both performances gave 1854 .
All in all , it's my initial performance that is dragging me down . But heck , it's in my favor , people think I am weaker than I actually am . Helps with hustling haha .
Hugh , I think I finally understand where that 1854 FQE rating comes from . I might have played a tournament a long long long time ago when I was in Ottawa on a family vacation , I must have been 10 years old and had just started playing chess . I must have scored a rating of 16xx during that tournament. I then played the Canada Open a couple of years ago . The average of both performances gave 1854 .
All in all , it's my initial performance that is dragging me down . But heck , it's in my favor , people think I am weaker than I actually am . Helps with hustling haha .
Those first 2 tournaments should have been ignored when you played again in 2006 after a ten year absence (especially since you were so young in 1996). Your rating should have been over 2000 since then.
I was just in a tournament in PEI. There were two young brothers (12-13?) from Rhode Island playing who have been playing alot in the US and had improved their US rating up to ~1700 but their CFC rating was still ~1200-1300. Their CFC rating was adjusted before the tournement was rated so some adjustments are being made.
In this case, Ahmad was 10 yrs old and had a 900 rating and then came back 10 yrs later with obviously a 2000+ rating. The old 900 rating should have been ignored. Does he had a FQE rating?
I'm not sure that the rule to ignore old ratings <1200 has ever actually been applied. Certainly not recently...
The fact that his rating is still lower than every single one of his performance ratings in the past six years shows just how "off" it is!
Any player rated under 1400 who doesn't play for 5 years can be considered unrated. However, it's not automatic in the rating program and not Gerry's job to look for it.
The organizer of the event would make note of it when they submit the event, much the same as making note of the foreign player CFC adjustment rule applied at the UPEI Open I organized.
Any player rated under 1400 who doesn't play for 5 years can be considered unrated. However, it's not automatic in the rating program and not Gerry's job to look for it.
The organizer of the event would make note of it when they submit the event, much the same as making note of the foreign player CFC adjustment rule applied at the UPEI Open I organized.
Should this be explicitly mentioned somewhere perhaps?
Any player rated under 1400 who doesn't play for 5 years can be considered unrated. However, it's not automatic in the rating program and not Gerry's job to look for it.
How about a player who hasn't played a rated CFC or FIDE event in more than 35 years but is over 1400? Is that rating supposed to be accurate?
You can input a range of FIDE ratings & do the puzzles
Wilf Ferner
I wonder how many you have to do before it's accurate, since it seems to start you at 1600.
Also in my first five puzzles I found two that were broken. Not just wrong - actually broken, as in you were supposed to move a black or white piece but it would only let you move the opposite colour pieces.
My real rating is 1596. The last tournament I played in (albeit 2 years ago), I performed at an 1846 level.
I would say that the answer is within a margin of error (whether my rating is actually closer to 1600 or 1700 today, who knows, but 1650 is a reasonable guess).
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