"David Richerby" wrote in message
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samsloan wrote:
ELO is a FIDE rating, not a USCF rating and especially not a
correspondence chess rating.

False. Elo is a system of rating, developed by Arpad Elo, for the
USCF. It is also used by FIDE and numerous other organizations, not
even restricted to chess.

That's true historically Don Schultz got Dr. Elo to evolve the system
//Chess Don.

Sloan's point is that it then became [almost] universally adopted, so that
the /same pool/ of players are referenced by Fide - whereas USCF ratings
[like British ones] deviated from the world pool of players.

Phil Innes


Dave.

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