SANDBAGGING

"As long as we have the goofy system of paying large class prizes we
will have sandbagging. Reward excellence and just maybe there will be
more of it," said an idealistic official, a voice in the wilderness.
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GM Larry Evans in a chapter about sandbagging in THIS CRAZY WORLD OF
CHESS (page 143),


David Richerby wrote:
J.D. Walker wrote:
Taylor Kingston wrote:
[Rating floors are aimed against sandbagging.]

Thanks for the explanation of the cause of the ratings floors.
Given this, I still maintain that it leads to a corruption of the
rating system.

If preventing sandbagging was the only reason for rating floors, it
would have been much better to just say that nobody can win a class
prize in a class more than 200 below their highest ever rating, or
something similar.


Dave.

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www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ like a high-tech robot but it can't
exist and it'll kill you in seconds!