Rating Inflation/Deflation
On 23 Mar, 01:16, "help bot" wrote:
On Mar 22, 7:54 pm, "Mark Houlsby"
wrote:
Well, it's all relative, Jerzy. A Capablanca's blitz moves might be
liable to be *relatively careless* by the standard of Capablanca, but
still much better than many of us can find in a correspondence game.
Of course, since JRCyG *died* I play better than he does, but just
barely, even so....
Skippy, you are ridiculous!
By what standard could you play better than the
dead Jose Capablanca? In the last fifty years, he
has not made a single bad move, nor lost even one
game. Moreover, his rating has not gone down a
point, so he still (retroactively) out-rates you and
always will.
The only standard whereby you beat JC now is
in activity; true enough, you have him beat here,
hands down. Congratulations on out playing a
dead man, Skip.
-- coach bot
Ummm.... that was kinda my point, Kennedy.
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