NO LIMIT TO CONCEIT

Randy Bauer is the guy who actually thought he had a chance last year
to beat GM Larry Evans in a four-game match.

Enough said.

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I think shutting down the Forum would be unwise, but I agree moderators
should act quickly to remove offending posts.

Chessoffice@xxxxxxx wrote:
In a message dated 9/28/2007 2:51:06 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I just read a threatening post by Brian Lafferty on the Forum.
Apparently
he's talking to the press too (I hope you weren't Susan). Too much
controversy has been allowed to fester with no firm hand in evidence.
Dear
Bill and Bill, I suggest that you really clamp down on anything in the
Forum
having to do with this situation until the Board is able to get the
information my motion is requesting and we're able to calmly consider
the
right course of action. Joel
Bill Hall, I think you should make sure the moderators understand that
this subject is not to be discussed on the forum. I have written them but
either they don't get it or they are too busy to enforce it. If this can't
be stopped perhaps the forum should be shut down for a day or two (with
notice of why) and then when it reopens, maybe everyone will understand that
this subject is off limits.

Bill Goichberg

On Oct 2, 10:55 am, " wrote:

Randy Bauer is the guy who actually thought he had a chance last year
to beat GM Larry Evans in a four-game match.


Here is Randy Bauer's current USCF rating: 2304,

and Larry Evans', which is from way back in 1991: 2457.

If LE were to have lost around ten points of strength per
year, they would now be very close to the same strength.
That seems reasonable, at least in in theory. But then,
the match might only be a draw.

I would like to play a match with GM Evans, but not
until he reaches his 110th birthday. :D


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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.

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

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

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

Sam Sloan

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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