March 2024 brought a compression of the minimum rating to 1400 and some calculation improvements. Let's discuss their impact, and some alternative ratings too!
I just wanted to support this way of communicating technical reviews (or even chess, which is technical stuff). I find that chess literature or many communications might need of such keys to help the forward attention given the audience individuals various walks, and needs to further read such article.
I like the wide scope starting point, and complete backreferencing of information needed. Even though I am not familiar not coming from such chess community context, where for example "compression" might be already defined. Not asking, as it does not seem to matter given the rest that I read. When I will have the time and need to scruntize such rating system. I know where to go back to, for something both tangible and widely scoped for my need of the big picture and specifics to be satisfied or debatable in reasonble time frame.
Very interesting article, thank you. I was not surprised to see that USA has the second-highest average new player rating but is not overrated according to URS; the reason (I think) is that many of them are not really new players, because almost all US tournaments are conducted with USCF rules and ratings and only a fraction of them (typically higher-level tournaments) are FIDE-rated. I was over 2000 USCF and had been playing OTB for decades before I finally got a FIDE rating. I don't know how common it is for countries to have their own rating system (and for those countries, how common is it for tournaments to not be FIDE rated at all). CAN and ENG also seem to occupy similar positions in a hypothetical "average new player rating vs overrated-ness" scatterplot (which would be interesting to see!).
Thanks for taking the time to read carefully, Dan. Yes, I agree that US players have a harder time entering the FIDE system to begin with, as often sections there are only USCF-rated, save for a few bigger opens. CFC and ECF are in a similar position, you are absolutely correct. I have noted your suggestion for future work ;)
https://vladchess.substack.com/i/150600221/the-structure-of-the-article-will-be-as-follows-just-so-you-know-what-youre-going-to-be-reading-ahead-of-time
I just wanted to support this way of communicating technical reviews (or even chess, which is technical stuff). I find that chess literature or many communications might need of such keys to help the forward attention given the audience individuals various walks, and needs to further read such article.
I like the wide scope starting point, and complete backreferencing of information needed. Even though I am not familiar not coming from such chess community context, where for example "compression" might be already defined. Not asking, as it does not seem to matter given the rest that I read. When I will have the time and need to scruntize such rating system. I know where to go back to, for something both tangible and widely scoped for my need of the big picture and specifics to be satisfied or debatable in reasonble time frame.
Very interesting article, thank you. I was not surprised to see that USA has the second-highest average new player rating but is not overrated according to URS; the reason (I think) is that many of them are not really new players, because almost all US tournaments are conducted with USCF rules and ratings and only a fraction of them (typically higher-level tournaments) are FIDE-rated. I was over 2000 USCF and had been playing OTB for decades before I finally got a FIDE rating. I don't know how common it is for countries to have their own rating system (and for those countries, how common is it for tournaments to not be FIDE rated at all). CAN and ENG also seem to occupy similar positions in a hypothetical "average new player rating vs overrated-ness" scatterplot (which would be interesting to see!).
Thanks for taking the time to read carefully, Dan. Yes, I agree that US players have a harder time entering the FIDE system to begin with, as often sections there are only USCF-rated, save for a few bigger opens. CFC and ECF are in a similar position, you are absolutely correct. I have noted your suggestion for future work ;)
Finland has its own rating system and is clearly an Elo tourist country