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  • #46
    Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

    Originally posted by Felix Dumont View Post
    When we did a comparison last summer between FQE/FIDE and CFC rating (based on every player that was active in both federation), we saw that the average difference was much higher for lower rated players. In many cases, the difference was between 200 and 300 points (or even more).

    There is indeed an enormous problem (that affects the CFC credibility), but obviously no player will want to see his rating reduced.

    Underrated junior players will only remain so for two or three tournaments, if they really are underrated, bonus points or not.
    Felix, we disagree on so many levels, where do I begin? :(

    I think I'll just move onto something else. Have a nice day.
    I'll just wait until I see your proposals, then vote No. ;)

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    • #47
      Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

      September 2012 USCF vs CFC vs FIDE
      Code:
      Name              USCF CFC  FIDE  Comments
      So, Wesley        2692 2724 2667 
      Sambuev, Bator    unr  2689 2535 
      Bluvshtein, Mark  2539 2632 2590 
      Kovalyov          unr  2644 2598 
      Noritsyn, Nikolay unr  2605 2461 
      Hansen,Eric       2479 2579 2502 
      Gerzhoy, Leonid   2539 2571 2461 
      Krnan, Tomas      unr  2562 2415 
      Samsonkin,Artiom  2553 2396 1498p USCF from 2001
      Quan, Zhe         2503 2642 2431  Last CFC game July 2009
      Castellanos,Renier unr 2501 2491 
      Hambleton, Aman   2488 2293 1990p USCF from 2007
      Doroshenko         unr 2482 2336 
      Porper, Edward     unr 2475 2420 
      Hebert, Jean      2466 2399 2452  USCF from 1999
      Pechenkin,Vlad    2377 2436 2333 
      Laceste, Loren    2493 2280 2290 
      Calugar, Arthur   2453 2429 2308 
      Panjwani, Raja    2451 2517 2403 
      Hartman, Brian    2443 2438 2374 
      Kaminski, Victor  2418 2315 2247 
      O’Donnell, Tom    2434 2350 2457  USCF from 2000
      Plotkin, Victor   2411 2354 2208 
      Cheng, Bindi      2402 2480 2415 
      Cummings, David   2391 2443 2328 
      Piasetski, Leon   2389 2405 2298 
      Qin, Ziyi         2378 2422 2237 
      Yoos, John        2393 2340 2405  USCF from 1999
      Sasata, Robert    2385 2273 2348  USCF from 1994
      Yam, Alex          unr 2373 2267 
      Kraiouchkine,N    2343 2240 2123p USCF from 2006
      Gardner, Robert   2353 2236 2161  USCF from 1999
      Trevor, Vincent    unr 2353  
      Lee, Vicente       unr 2333 2255 
      Fuentebella,Mayo   unr 2318 2167 
      Gansvind, Valeria  unr 2309 2246 
      Masse, Hugues     2373 2291 2213 
      MacKinnon, Keith  2143 2301 2152
      trying to reformat table so it is readable
      ...Mike Pence: the Lord of the fly.

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      • #48
        Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

        Thanks Kerry, how is that done?
        Paul Leblanc
        Treasurer Chess Foundation of Canada

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        • #49
          Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

          Originally posted by Paul Leblanc View Post
          September 2012 USCF vs CFC vs FIDE

          Name USCF CFC FIDE Comments
          So, Wesley 2692 2724 2667
          Sambuev, Bator unr 2689 2535
          Bluvshtein, Mark 2539 2632 2590
          Kovalyov unr 2644 2598
          Noritsyn, Nikolay unr 2605 2461
          Hansen 2479 2579 2502
          Gerzhoy, Leonid 2539 2571 2461
          Krnan, Tomas unr 2562 2415
          Samsonkin, Artiom 2553 2396 1498p USCF from 2001
          Quan, Zhe 2503 2642 2431 Last CFC game July 2009
          Castellanos, Renier unr 2501 2491
          Hambleton, Aman 2488 2293 1990p USCF from 2007
          Doroshenko unr 2482 2336
          Porper, Edward unr 2475 2420
          Hebert, Jean 2466 2399 2452 USCF from 1999
          Pechenkin, Vladimir 2377 2436 2333
          Laceste, Loren 2493 2280 2290
          Calugar, Arthur 2453 2429 2308
          Panjwani, Raja 2451 2517 2403
          Hartman, Brian 2443 2438 2374
          Kaminski, Victor 2418 2315 2247
          O’Donnell, Tom 2434 2350 2457 USCF from 2000
          Plotkin, Victor 2411 2354 2208
          Cheng, Bindi 2402 2480 2415
          Cummings, David 2391 2443 2328
          Piasetski, Leon 2389 2405 2298
          Qin, Ziyi 2378 2422 2237
          Yoos, John 2393 2340 2405 USCF from 1999
          Sasata, Robert 2385 2273 2348 USCF from 1994
          Yam, Alex unr 2373 2267
          Kraiouchkine, Nikita 2343 2240 2123p USCF from 2006
          Gardner, Robert 2353 2236 2161 USCF from 1999
          Trevor, Vincent unr 2353
          Lee, Vicente unr 2333 2255
          Fuentebella, Mayo unr 2318 2167
          Gansvind, Valeria unr 2309 2246
          Masse, Hugues 2373 2291 2213
          MacKinnon, Keith 2143 2301 2152

          I have had a number of USCF memberships over the years. The most recent one is number 12622500.

          It is 2398, as of my latest tournament, The Bahamas International in October.

          BTW, I would have no problem having my CFC rating lowered 100 points to put it in line with my more accurate FIDE rating.

          P.S. You should probably check the ratings vs the columns. Some of them appear to be in the wrong columns.
          Last edited by Tom O'Donnell; Tuesday, 9th April, 2013, 11:49 AM.
          "Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.

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          • #50
            Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

            With so many isolated pools of players in Canada (or the US for that matter), I wonder how long CFC ratings (localized or national) could be expected to stay at approximate parity with FIDE ratings before another 'correction' might be needed to restore such parity.
            Last edited by Kevin Pacey; Tuesday, 9th April, 2013, 12:16 PM. Reason: Grammar
            Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.
            Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer

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            • #51
              Re: Re : Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

              Originally posted by Bob Gillanders View Post
              I disagree. The bonus system is working well and solving the problem of underrated juniors.

              Felix, your analysis is superficial, it is based on a crude comparison of CFC and FIDE ratings of the top 100 players only.

              If you want to "adjust" CFC ratings based on this, then your solution should be to "adjust" just the ratings of those top 100 players. You could propose a formula to reduce the CFC ratings of those top 100 players. Not something I would do, but go ahead if you are so convinced there is a problem. But please limit your tinkering to the top 100 players.

              Good luck getting them to agree to lower their ratings. :D
              The main issue I think there is with the bonus point system is that juniors who may not be "underrated" are able to gain bonus points from let's call them "over rated seniors." I think that if a system's intent is accuracy rather than simply to have the highest possible ratings, there should be an equivalent penalty for players on the decline, as there are bonus points for players on the rise.

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              • #52
                Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

                Originally posted by Paul Leblanc View Post
                Thanks Kerry, how is that done?
                It's quite the PITA... I copied all your text into a text editor and replaced all the tabs with 4 spaces and then manually lined everything up. Once that is done (the key thing is to avoid creating the text with any tab characters) I enclosed it within a CODE and /CODE tag pair... eg:

                {CODE}
                this is carefully formatted
                {/CODE}

                of course, in the above example I replaced the usual [ and ] with { and } so that you can see what I mean.

                I *really* *really* wish this crappy VBulletin forum software had the ability to post items as-is but the CODE tag seems to be the only way to leave things more or less unmolested.
                ...Mike Pence: the Lord of the fly.

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                • #53
                  Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

                  Originally posted by Kerry Liles View Post
                  the CODE tag seems to be the only way to leave things more or less unmolested.
                  table works too, though including all tds and trs is painful too.

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                  • #54
                    Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

                    Originally posted by Egidijus Zeromskis View Post
                    table works too, though including all tds and trs is painful too.
                    Thanks Egid... I think I tried that once too, but including all those tags manually was a big hassle. There are freeware utilities out there to create html tables from text or via typing into a GUI interface, but that seems like a lot of work as well.

                    At least the {CODE} tag seems to be more or less like "leave it alone" but there are drawbacks: a maximum size and then it makes it a scroll window; it leaves the word 'code' as a sort of silly heading etc. Overall, I wish the forum software had some better features.
                    ...Mike Pence: the Lord of the fly.

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                    • #55
                      Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

                      Originally posted by Kerry Liles View Post
                      Thanks Egid... I think I tried that once too, but including all those tags manually was a big hassle. There are freeware utilities out there to create html tables from text or via typing into a GUI interface, but that seems like a lot of work as well.

                      At least the {CODE} tag seems to be more or less like "leave it alone" but there are drawbacks: a maximum size and then it makes it a scroll window; it leaves the word 'code' as a sort of silly heading etc. Overall, I wish the forum software had some better features.
                      Does opening the original file in PDF and then using the take a snapshot feature not work. I used this when I was copying tables over from financial annual reports for a school project.

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                      • #56
                        Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

                        Originally posted by Felix Dumont View Post
                        When we did a comparison last summer between FQE/FIDE and CFC rating (based on every player that was active in both federation), we saw that the average difference was much higher for lower rated players. In many cases, the difference was between 200 and 300 points (or even more).

                        There is indeed an enormous problem (that affects the CFC credibility), but obviously no player will want to see his rating reduced.

                        Underrated junior players will only remain so for two or three tournaments, if they really are underrated, bonus points or not.
                        FIDE ratings are virtually useless in Canada for all but a handful of players. Go ahead, tell me how many players in Canada played at least 20 FIDE rated games last year.
                        Last edited by Duncan Smith; Tuesday, 9th April, 2013, 11:10 PM.

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                        • #57
                          Re: Re : Re: Re : Re: Guelph Spring Pro-Am April 6-7

                          Originally posted by Duncan Smith View Post
                          FIDE ratings are virtually useless in Canada for all but a handful of players. Go ahead, tell me how many players in Canada played at least 20 FIDE rated games last year.
                          Can you get a rating by playing a computer?:D

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