Age

Can't remember if you had to give your age when registering for the site.

I would be interesting to see a distribution of player age against average rating say.

I want to know if I'm past it yet!!!

Age is optional when you register.
We could probably produce some stats for you soon.

-Russ

Hell, that could be embarresing.
I know of a few younger players (if their profiles are honest) that have much higher ratings than me 😳

Originally posted by Crowley
Hell, that could be embarresing.
I know of a few younger players (if their profiles are honest) that have much higher ratings than me 😳

Originally posted by kirksey957
Maybe there should be an "old fart clan." You would have to be a crumudgeon 😠 and have prostate problems😞 Kirk

Originally posted by Crowley
Hmm, I wonder what the age is of the oldest player is on the site?
And what is the state of his prostate? 😕
BTW Kirk, how old are you?

Originally posted by kirksey957
There are at least two on the site whom I've played who are in their eighties. I am 45. Kirk

With a name like that you'll be playing forever.......

Originally posted by royalchicken
With a name like that you'll be playing forever.......

Good going..twas quite clever, but anyone whose rating was only (SQRT(5)+1)/2 times their age would not be the best of chess players....

Originally posted by StarValleyWy
Good "Come Back" mr. RC... No... wait... the big J swiped mr. L's tomb. Never did say what happened to poor Mr. L ... hope they made him a new one. Or buried him. Or donated him to the uni ... Maybe he was one of the guys next to Brian singing "Look On The Bright Side" ?

Not sure i would want to see the "age to rating" ratio. It's depressing ...[text shortened]... Could the "age to rating" be a second expression of "the golden ratio"? <old = golden years>

ahem... right... sorry bout that. Didn't mean to get dirt in yer eyes... Well... Let's see... my, but this foot tastes good. Sorry lazaraus.

RC... how bout we use the golden ratio times a century? That work? Never did understand the set-up of the 'golden ratio' ... basically, it is similar to pi... right? except it is defined on a line instead of a circle? And has something to do with the ratio of &quot;a longest segment&quot; to line length? 😲 It's your fault lazaraus! My poor brain hurts. &lt; as a side note... they have found out that the GR describes the distribution disk (of stars) in the arms of spiral galaxies. Astronomy Magazine, a couple months ago&gt;

The Fibonacci sequence is defined by F1=1, F(n+1) = F(n) + F(n-1)...1,1,2,3,5,8,13... . The Golden Ratio is defined as lim(n -&gt; 00) F(n+1)/F(n). Now it is clear that if G is the golden ratio, G-1=1/G, and solving this gives the aforementioned value for G, which is approximately equal to 1.618.... . however, the important distinction between G and pi is that G is the root of a polynomial with integer coefficients, and pi is not. (There are many proofs of this, most brutish and least edifying of which is due to myself....)

If we draw what are called 'Golden Rectangles' (rectangles whose sides are in ratios of successive Fibonacci terms), we find that by drawing a square within each rectangle and forming a new GR, we can make cool spirals.

So G times a century is about 162 (rounded). If the average age on RHP is (say) 20, then we get a rating of 3240....quite impressive.

Speaking of age and matematics:
http://slate.msn.com/id/2082960
&quot;No. Not every mathematician is washed up at 30.&quot;

Is it a coincidence that index cards are 13&quot;x8&quot; or 5&quot;x8&quot; or 3&quot;x5&quot;?