>Player Tables....
Exactly last year, to be in top 10, all you need is a rating of 2250. Today, there are over 18 players that is 2300+.
2 explanations for this:
1. Rating inflation, stronger players have been consistently beating up slightly lower rated players.
2. There hasn't been enough bannings lately.
Originally posted by EmLaskerI think a combination of 1 and 2.😏
>Player Tables....
Exactly last year, to be in top 10, all you need is a rating of 2250. Today, there are over 18 players that is 2300+.
2 explanations for this:
1. Rating inflation, stronger players have been consistently beating up slightly lower rated players.
2. There hasn't been enough bannings lately.
3. the rating pool isn't 'mature' yet.
and because of that the top is very compressed. in time, the influx of points won from lower levels will roughly equal the outflux from 'retiring' players, and the flow will reach an equilibrium. only then we'll see what the 'real' rating level of the current top players will be with RHP's particular elo implementation. right now the top is still expanding very rapidly, and we have FMs rated about equal against rybka & fritz, which obviously won't stay like that indefinitely.
Originally posted by AudreyxSophiePeople's commitment to the site goes up and down depending on the other stuff going on in their lives. I was laid off for a month due to the recession and so could concentrate on chess for a while, my rating went up to over 1900 and I was not making many of the type of mistake you are talking about. Now I'm back working and have a work deadline to meet for the end of this month, consequently I'm blundering left, right and centre and have too many games.
Right now, as we speak, two stronger player in two differents game, give me pieces,
Man, these errors are not stronger player error,s they are beginners errors.
This is the fundamental difference between OTB and CC chess, in OTB chess what you have to cope with is the position in front of you and you'll normally have been concentrating on it continuously since the game started. Neither you nor your opponent have to leave the table and you shouldn't have problems remembering what you are trying to do, In correspondence chess you have to manage time-keeping in your entire life to cope with the time limits in games, also you have to keep track of what you are doing over days. The web-browser interface makes it very easy to move quickly, so that what you sometimes see is players making hasty moves because they are in a rush and don't look properly.
So I don't think that terrible blunders from 1,900+ players tells you all that much about their basic standard of play, but might give you some clues as to how much spare time they have...
Originally posted by AudreyxSophieI don't think we should compare RHP and OTB chess ratings at all. They are totally different scales.
I think we are over rated.
I see often player over 1700 leaving pieces, hanging..
uit is not that hope for attack or they sac it, they do not consider the attack on the piece and leave it en prise, pure blunder.
A 1700 OTB player and a 1700 RHP player are at different skills.
