"Angelo DePalma" wrote in message
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This post will no doubt resurrect the recently-dormant rating experts, who
will tell me I'm full of crap and there is no such thing as rating
deflation.

And they would be full of soup. The current system is leaking points
somewhere. Perhaps because of the lowering of floors. Maybe because of the
kiddie stuff. Or even people dropping out of chess. Who knows, it might even
be the formula itself. Ken would tell you that ratings are just statistical
chatter. That the system reflects a perfect bell curve and the numbering of
the y axis is irrelevant. All I know is that most people don't play for
money or trophies. They play for rating points. And when they don't get
them, they lose interest. The system is broke. It does nothing to encourage
chess.

StanB