Chessbase 10
Due for release: 21 July 2008
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A chess player who is good in rapid chess but who is bad in classical time control games, may end up top of the rating list. Yes? Then his FIDE rating and local rating will not make sense anymore.
Anyway, I believe FIDE is planning to lower the minimum FIDE rating to 1,000 or 900 points. It sure looks like it headed that way. And with that, everyone can have a FIDE rating, even the weak ones. But isn’t that what our FIDE motto states,”Gens Una Sumus - We are all one family”?
Sorry but what does rating have to do with a player paying his/her own way to some tournament overseas? Without an unbiased system to rank players for Swiss tournaments, pairings & results will become unfair. For example, a strong player could be playing a string of strong players round after round, or adversely, a weak player could be beating up weaker players for anymber of rounds and ending up as one of the tournament leaders?! However, our own rating system may have a few fundamental faults, for example, results for rapid games (25 - 30 minutes) and that of classical time control, are all pooled together on one rating list.