Only Chess
07 Jul 09
08 Jul 09
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Originally posted by RenarsWell I was just curious.
where is this all going? is this my dad's cooler than yours or I'm holier than thou thing? 😉
In particular this thread has, for the most part, followed the pattern of any one person's average opponents rating being, typically, lower than their own rating.
My maths isn't up to the task to explain this but I would have thought that about half would be lower and half higher.
The other thing I was interested in was the possibility that players rated 2000 and above could have an average opponents rating sometimes several hundred points below their own (I'm not just talking about atticus2 there). That surprised me.
08 Jul 09
Originally posted by JonathanB of LondonThis is all down to them entering open tournaments.
The other thing I was interested in was the possibility that players rated 2000 and above could have an average opponents rating sometimes several hundred points below their own (I'm not just talking about atticus2 there). That surprised me.
Tournament 7687 for instance has some 500 point differential in ratings!
Currently 1360
My Highest Rating 1469 1469 1523
My Average Rating 1349 1329 1301
My Lowest Rating 1239 1176 1049
My Opponent Avg. Rating 1328 1346 1308
08 Jul 09
Originally posted by adramforallSure but these are average opponents' ratings ... so many of their opponents will have been rated much more than 'hundreds' of points less.
This is all down to them entering open tournaments.
I'd thought that many of the top players would have played only the other top players ... but it seems not. Unless it so happens that there are many who do only play other 2000+ but I just haven't looked at them yet. Very possible. I've not done an indepth study on this.