Minimum rating floor in the online rating systems

[Smythe_Dakota]

Organizers should be careful not to call their top sections “open” if they don’t want extremely low-rated players to play in them. They should be careful to explicitly state the entry requirements for each section. e.g. “Premier, open to players rated 1600 and up”. There can, of course, be overlap, such as the above plus “Candidates, open to players rated 1400-2199”.

Good names for top sections not open to all include “Premier”, “Championship”, “Major”, etc, as long as the allowable range is specified. Self-contradictory would be “Open Section, open to players rated 1600 and up”.

Bill Smythe

[relyea]

@Smythe Dakota

Organizers should be careful not to call their top sections “open” if they don’t want extremely low-rated players to play in them. They should be careful to explicitly state the entry requirements for each section. e.g. “Premier, open to players rated 1600 and up”. There can, of course, be overlap, such as the above plus “Candidates, open to players rated 1400-2199”.

Good names for top sections not open to all include “Premier”, “Championship”, “Major”, etc, as long as the allowable range is specified. Self-contradictory would be “Open Section, open to players rated 1600 and up”.

Bill Smythe

On ICCF, Open tournaments are for players rated up to 1899.

Alex Relyea

[BobMessenger]

I’ve created a new topic, Pairing small Swiss System tournaments, to discuss problems with pairing Swiss System tournaments with a small number of players. This topic is for discussion of the minimum rating floor in the online rating systems.

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@jwiewel

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@relyea

@wintdoan

No. The only thing which is age-related is the initial guess rating for a complete novice. However, as a result of that, it’s very rare for an adult to get a rating<150. (20 year old newbie who has 1500L, 1200L, 1000L will get a 600/3 rating; 6 year old with the same record will be 300/3; and 5-8 year olds tend to play schedules with much lower opponent ratings than that examples).

I like to use the example of a complete beginner playing in the open section of the World Open.

Alex Relyea

The problem with open sections are insane parents who enter their young new chess playing children in which they
have zero chance at providing any competitive games for their opponents, Or, in truly receiving much of a benefit themselves. I remember trying to encourage a dad to register his novice son in a U section, rather than the Open,
and his dad furiously pointed out that his son has played 13 games in two major tournaments open sections in the last year. (lost all 13 but played them).

Some organizers have a Premier section instead of an Open section. Since it isn’t open it can have a minimum rating to register.

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