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I am moving the grading site about to different equipment shortly so a little disruption might be possible

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Carl Hibbard

The change should now be complete

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Carl Hibbard

Is this looking any faster to anyone who uses the service regularly

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Can someone explain why the new grades have occured. I know theres bene threads before. But Its like FIDE ratings. THere use to be a big thing when I was a 133 junior that gettign a FIDE(which was min 2000) was a massive thing. In ECF terms for me personally it is getting over 200 ECF. I beat say 145's who now count as 210 rating points because there 160 on the new list. Whilst its not a bad thing. I dont like things for free, like I dont like cheats in exams and chess etc , I now know if I get over 200 , it isnt the "proper" way.


Ben

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Ben. The 200 level is almost unaltered by the change. So keep the same target.

But what Im saying is Its easier to obtain surely because beating 145's now gets you 200 points where as before it was just below.

Ben

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There is no change to the calculation of rating results (that I am aware of).

A win versus ECF 145 will yield 195 assuming your own rating lies between 105 and 145.

Any more than 145 and you will get your rating + 50 unless its more than 185 in which case you will get +10.

The alleged corrected ratings do not alter this calculation.

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I was under the impression the new ratings where being used for the calculations...

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AFAIK, they will be but the calculation remains unaltered.

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John is correct that the corrected gradings will not change the calculus (although the new grades are the ones that will be used in the calculation) but the figures he gives are wrong.

A win versus ECF 145 will yield 195 assuming your own rating lies between 105 and 185.

Any more than 185 you will get +10, and any less than 105 and you get +90.

Ben Purton is correct that certain routes to 200 will now be easier.

For example if a player, strength 175 OG (old grades) previously played in Swiss Weekend events against average opposition of 160 OG he would need to score 4½/5 in 6 events to get to 200. If the same players took part this year with new grades using the ECF approx conversion formula the 160 OG players on average might be a little more than 171.4 NG (new grade) so the 175 player who is now 183.25 NG, only needs to score 4/5 in 5 events and 3½/5 in 1 event to be 200.

However life is not as simple as this because lower scores in a Swiss will result in being paired against lower rated opponents.

The easiest way to 200 is probably to play League chess in a lower division for a strong club where opponents 145 OG are now 159.55 NG so a score of 90% against 145 OG average should ensure 200+. NG. Its not unusual for League players to score 90%.

Watch out for the real sharks, that is players of 185 OG who suddenly became interested in playing League chess again this year and join a strong club to play in a lower division. They are now approx 191.15 and wins against any lower rated opponents eg 125 NG will take them over 200.

I think Ben's point about 145 players is that many of them, particularly the juniors will have been revalued to 165+ without ever having demonstrated that they can survive at that standard. Ben himself is one of the players in the 170's who has not received much revaluation (176 to 179) and thus will get greater rewards from ex-145 bashing. I can only suppose that most of Ben's chess over last season was played in the 4NCL or against other comparable near FM/IM opposition. You can for example maintain a 175 grade by scoring 10% against 215 standard IMs. The new grades have been cooked so that IMs stay put, so our Mr 10% 175 would have been unchanged.

By way of illustrating Michael White's point, I scored 50% at my last 5 round tournament for a score of just under 170 (OG) or 180 on the revalued grades. So against the field I played, I would have needed 4/5 (OG) but only 3.5 (revalued) to reach a 200 performance. In fact a last round win would have been enough.

The ECF have not published 2007 (revalued) so we cannot prove the new system inflationary. I haven't really figured out how they've managed to cook grades of juniors by such large amounts but empirically they seem to have broken the premise that players of equal grades should expect to score 50% against one another.

I was simply going on the fact I play board 1 for Hayes, I play 150 OG's all the time And I tend to win the majority of the time(3/3 thus far). All these guys are counting at 160+ so I get over 200. Where as before it would have been just about 200. Basically What Michael and Roger have said. I do think its adding 10 points to everyone in my situation.

Ben

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In the poker game of life, women are the rake - Rounders
I love sleep, I need 8 hours a day and about 10 at night - Bill Hicks
I would die happy if I beat Wood Green in the Eastman Cup final - Richmond LL captain.

Roger you forgot to put that most of my chess is at 4ncl , so Ive got my good old -10 for drink in system

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In the poker game of life, women are the rake - Rounders
I love sleep, I need 8 hours a day and about 10 at night - Bill Hicks
I would die happy if I beat Wood Green in the Eastman Cup final - Richmond LL captain.

Ben,

If you play 150 OG all the time and win the majority of the time (say 90%) you would be graded 190. The fact that you are not graded 190 means that something is wrong, either with the average grade of your opponents, or with your average score.

When they are correctly given (so that they match your actual grade) I am sure that the new grade results will look far more sensible!