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Would anyone like to provide the top fifty (say) disparities between players who have an actual FIDE rating and their converted from ECF rating?

This could make for interesting reading! I am attempting to sort the board orders for the AMCA 4NCL teams and am struggling to deal with this issue.

I like to put the players in order of playing strength but the new ECF ratings (if converted) do not allow me to do this in many cases.

Conversely, there are juniors who have stupidly low FIDE ratings and their ECF rating might actually be nearer the truth!

Here are the juniors with the biggest differences (over 200 points)

Player ECF Conv FIDE Diff
Wang, Maria 167 1986 1677 309
Krishnan, Anand J 175 2050 1767 283
Daley, Eugene 168 1994 1736 258
Kilpatrick, Callum 232 2506 2260 246
Pritchard, Abigail 147 1826 1592 234
Sen, Subin 209 2322 2098 224
Clarke, Brandon G I 201 2258 2039 219
Galliano, Alexander 203 2274 2056 218

Hi John

The 4NCL have not published fixtures yet which is upsetting.

Say I have a Guy who is

1800 FIDE but 170 ECF, what do I put his grade at, whats the 4ncl rule, they change them so bloody much i forget

BEn

The 4NCL rule is that FIDE ratings, where they exist, take precedence. So the player in question would count as 1800.

Were he unrated, he would presumably count as (170*8)+650, or 2010.

I think this should be looked at as ECF grades can often be far more representative than FIDE ratings for junior players. I estimate that it will take a year or two before Brandon Clarke's rating catches up with his playing strength.