Floor/Ceiling

Running Chess Tournaments
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Henry Olynik seems to have recently been awarded a belated 1600 floor due to his outstanding performance in the 2003 National Chess Congress, where he scored 0-5:
uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?10102766

As his October 2005 Rating Supplement (published 2 years after the 2003 National Chess Congress) had him published at 1249: uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlRtgSupp.php?10102766

and his only tournament subsequent to that was his 3-2 score in the Under 1300 Section of the Eastern Chess Congress:
uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php … 4-10102766

I’d be interested in assigning him a real rating which can be used to replace his 1600 floor, for the tournament this weekend. Is 1300 a reasonable rating to assign?

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Note that the better link for Olynik’s history is at:
uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlTnmtHst.php?10102766

3

Steve,

I would use his October 05 rating since this is prior to the assignment of the floor. An alternative would be to adjust this rating for his one tournament after the October supplement.

4

Looks like a combination of problems, possibly including a typo, his current rating should probably be somewhere in the 1200-1300 range.

I’m just starting the rerates for the April supplement, so we can still fix this one.

5

Wow Steve! How coming my rating doesn’t go up almost 200 points when I lose all my games in your tournaments? :smiley:

6

They keep shooting down my favorite idea for a USCF fund-raiser: Sell ratings points on E-Bay.

I suspect we could pay off the new building within a year. :slight_smile:

7

You could sell lower floors on ebay for sandbaggers. :stuck_out_tongue:

8

Only if they also have to contribute 25% of their ill-gotten gains to the USCF. :slight_smile: