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It's not consistent. Perhaps it's just the rating when they entered.Richard Bates wrote: ↑Thu Dec 27, 2018 6:18 pmAre they trialling a new pairing system which gives juniors their peak rating from the previous six months?
I think I know what the answer to that is. When you update the ratings it looks at the FIDE-rating list for the FIDE ID to use it as the identifying key. If you have entered them as ECF, the identifying key is the ECF grading reference not the FIDE ID. This is one of the reasons why you should set the file up using the FIDE list whenever possible for an event using FIDE-ratings as the rating operandi, and not the ECF list. It also means you drag through the Club for some players and not others, so the presentation is inconsistent and doesn't look as nice in my opinion.Alex McFarlane wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 7:50 amThe Shreyas Royal wrong rating is my fault. The software should update ratings at the press of a button but for some reason refused to do so for players entered as ECF rather than FIDE. I manually did those but missed that one.
I suspect lack of significant sponsorship for some years has had a long term effect.Nick Ivell wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:00 amNo disrespect to anyone involved - for example, I always enjoy following Gormally's games - but whatever happened to Hastings?
I only went once. On that occasion, Petrosian was playing.
I think the last invitation only round-robin event was in 2003-4 and you'd have to go back to 1988-89 to find the last event with world-class foreign players taking part. I wouldn't be surprised if these dates correspond to years when signifiant commercial sponsorship was lost.Nick Ivell wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:00 amNo disrespect to anyone involved - for example, I always enjoy following Gormally's games - but whatever happened to Hastings?
I only went once. On that occasion, Petrosian was playing.
Just the motivation needed for a New Year's resolution to lose weight and exercise moreNickFaulks wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:38 pmAnyone contemplating the shortish walk from St Leonards Warrior Square station to the venue, with suitcase, should be warned that it is situated at the highest point of the South Downs.
.Yes, the golden years of Hastings for me were before England had a grandmaster. The visiting Russians et al seemed godlike, especially too as there were no analysis engines. What fervour if a home player scored a win! There was applause when Hartston beat Gligoric. I first went in 1961-62 and one memorable non-chess moment was finding myself at the urinals at the same time as Botvinnik. Frank Rhoden successfully invited so many great players, but I remember him moaning to me that he once had the 14-year-old Fischer ready to fly over but a home player would not give up his place in the 10-player apa Premier despite being offered a guaranteed place the following year. I wonder if it's an apocryphal story that the £100 first prize was worth only £96 because even the grandmasters had to pay the £4 entry fee. Anyway it was great to play in a morning tournament and then watch the GMs on the manual demo boards in the afternoon.Nick Ivell wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:00 amNo disrespect to anyone involved - for example, I always enjoy following Gormally's games - but whatever happened to Hastings?
I only went once. On that occasion, Petrosian was playing.
This would have been 1957/8 (Fischer was born in 1943) and as the tournament would have coincided with the US Championship, which was Fischer's first and offered an opportunity to qualify for the Interzonal, would he really have passed that up in order to play at Hastings?Paul Habershon wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:18 pmFrank Rhoden successfully invited so many great players, but I remember him moaning to me that he once had the 14-year-old Fischer ready to fly over but a home player would not give up his place in the 10-player apa Premier despite being offered a guaranteed place the following year. I wonder if it's an apocryphal story that the £100 first prize was worth only £96 because even the grandmasters had to pay the £4 entry fee.
Rather than a home player refusing to withdraw, a home player had to be added late when Rossolimo also withdrew. The substitute didn't do that badly either, finishing fourth behind the three world championship candidates Keres, Filip and Gligoric. And yes Justin is correct, Bobby withdrew because it clashed with the US championship/zonal.JustinHorton wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:26 pmThis would have been 1957/8 (Fischer was born in 1943) and as the tournament would have coincided with the US Championship, which was Fischer's first and offered an opportunity to qualify for the Interzonal, would he really have passed that up in order to play at Hastings?Paul Habershon wrote: ↑Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:18 pmFrank Rhoden successfully invited so many great players, but I remember him moaning to me that he once had the 14-year-old Fischer ready to fly over but a home player would not give up his place in the 10-player apa Premier despite being offered a guaranteed place the following year. I wonder if it's an apocryphal story that the £100 first prize was worth only £96 because even the grandmasters had to pay the £4 entry fee.