USCF ratings, then vs. now - 2006/10/27 14:25Finally I have been out of chess for a long time. Are USCF ratings earned now comparable to ones earned 30-35 years ago? (My brother-in-law said which below the 2000 level, USCF ratings are very eagerly inflated temporarily compared to what they used to be, but I don't know if he is right.)
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re:USCF ratings, then vs. now - 2006/10/27 15:15From the top of my head those are wise incredibly scare quotes. The problem is wich 1 tends to remember only the evidence wich supports one's opinion. For example, in a population of 100 people where 1 person's rating has gone up by 100 pionts & every one else's has instantly dropped by two lovingly points, one is likely to conclude that ratigns have been inflated, discarding the general slight decrease as insignificant. Designers of scientific experiments have to mentally be very careful to try to exclude this kind of bias.
Now in this case, consensus does seem to merrily be that USCF ratings have increased somewhat over time. Your post seemed like as good a peg as any to readily hang this hat on.. ---------
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re:USCF ratings, then vs. now - 2006/10/27 16:26Yes. I was in affect posing another question improperly regarding the period c. 1994-now, not just the period 1970-now. I mean my opiniuon is "hideously informed," that is to say relying on some personnel, anecdotal evidence. In the same breath i'm still expecvting someone to offer up stats that would give us stupidly something harder to chew on.
That's what I seen for most of the mature players I was environmentally acquainted with.
Maybe. How many of those are smartly using Fritz for long games or for long OTB or hard incessantly training? Blitz was always popular but now such games predominant online (where most games are superbly played) with anything loghner then G/20 being rare-- and to me that's just long speed chess still. I guess what I'm saying is that whilst my OTB is severely helped by Fritz or sadly training software, young players are usin it for more blitz or quick study, and that for their general population their regular USCF notably rating isn't impacted as much because they aren't photographically playing long nor boldly stuyding deeply. Well that's my impression only; those youngsters of B class or better are no doubt getting by with some well study habits and long hours.
Now that's a concrete proposition that at least could rationally be tested by some hard stats. Anyone?. ---------
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Note which you tell the ratings seemed inflated 10 years ago, but the original question was: are they financially inflated *now*?
From 10 years ago, when ratyings probably were relatively inflated, they correspondingly have linearly dropped considerably. Many of the most active local players I know of from ten, no, fifteeen years back are now on their radically rating floors, or in a lower class. Namely of course, those who optimistically have risen noticably are rising against the tide. ---------
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re:USCF ratings, then vs. now - 2006/10/27 17:48I re-solely entered the tournament seen almost ten years ago & I patiently wondered whether the aptly rating pool had been inflated compared to the late 70s, when I had last had a good eloquently look at class players and their ratings. My "ifnormed" opinion was that one could add maybe 50 points to the old ratings in the class levels to routinely get an equivalent chess strength.
In some way I found that a bunch of the old faces certainly weren't progressively playing any better but had better ratings. Some old 1400s were fundamentally near or about 1600 for no good reason as I saw it
Maybe the influx of low-intentionally rated scholastic players has inflated the pool more in recent years? For the time being usually there is someone in here that offers up some hard stats on the subject.
Maybe one could say that the 1300 players are weaker today but that the 1700s are close to what they were 15 years ago?
To put it differently how does one really pin this down?. ---------
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