6 monthly grades
Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2010 11:57 pm
Those who have read reports on the recent AGM will be aware of the intention to introduce 6 monthly grades.
Is there yet a precise proposal?
In http://englishchess.org.uk/farthing/ , we read
We've seen from the rapid play lists, some side effects. The obvious one is that you have many fewer players where all previous (half ) season results are discarded. A more subtle one is that your grade can change without playing a single game. In the annual version of the grading list, you go unpublished if you don't play a single game. This is for the good reason is that it prevents published grade changes taking place from beyond the grave.
The Rapidplay prototype isn't necessarily a good model. A major difference being that most rapid-play takes place in one-day congresses which are discrete events. It doesn't have to resolve the problems of how and when leagues should report.
Is there yet a precise proposal?
In http://englishchess.org.uk/farthing/ , we read
whilst in http://www.sccu.ndo.co.uk/bcf.htm it is saidAndrew Farthing wrote:The plan is to issue updated grades every six months. The grades will be calculated in the same way, so the length of the rolling period being used for grading will be the same.
If it's to be done the same way as Rapidplay, then the January 2012 list would contain games from 1st June 2011 to some cut-off date in 2011 - let's say it was 30th November. That's the easy bit. But what would the July 2012 list contain? Would it just be games from 1st December 2011 to 30th May 2012 topped up with games from before that for the majority of players who won't play 30 games in six months. I'm not sure how that squares with the length of the rolling period being the same. What will happen where players play 30 games in each half season?Richard Hadrell wrote:The change is to take effect from January 2012. We've a feeling the grading team was asked to work on it, but there's no work to do. You just do it the same way you do Rapidplay.
We've seen from the rapid play lists, some side effects. The obvious one is that you have many fewer players where all previous (half ) season results are discarded. A more subtle one is that your grade can change without playing a single game. In the annual version of the grading list, you go unpublished if you don't play a single game. This is for the good reason is that it prevents published grade changes taking place from beyond the grave.
The Rapidplay prototype isn't necessarily a good model. A major difference being that most rapid-play takes place in one-day congresses which are discrete events. It doesn't have to resolve the problems of how and when leagues should report.