On Oct 2, 10:53 pm, samsloan wrote:

You overlook the fact that Bauer's rating of 2304 is not current. It
is a 1997 rating based on a match with a friend. His typical average
rating was only about 2150.

How did I miss that? It was obvious that LE had not played
since 1991; I clicked on "tournament history", and that's what
it said. Okay, the USCF site says RB played in just one, rinky
dink event in 2005; so Sam Sloan may be right.


Based on what has happened to the rating system since 1997, I doubt
that Bauer could hold a rating much above 2100.

I have noticed that a lot of players have dropped around
a hundred or more points in (more or less) that time frame.


My own rating has dropped 170 points since 1997 and I think that my
case is fairly typical.

No, the Sloan case is anything but typical. You are
unique; an anomaly of nature. (See: freak, weirdo.) ;D


I would still bet that Grandmaster Evans would beat Randy Bauer in a
match.

Okay, but I think I was being very generous with the
ten-points-per-year age decline for LE. If you add that
number to the deflation which has affected nearly
everyone, you would get a much larger drop in rating
for LE since 1991.

There are people who cannot stop playing for a long
time and then successfully come back, because they
have forgotten what they knew or they try too hard to
equal their earlier results, and this backfires. But there
are people like me, who are just natural born geniuses,
and who can go away and return almost unscathed.
That is because I never knew anything in the first place,
so the fact that I have forgotten everything is irrelevant.
Um, that didn't come out quite right... .


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