On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 20:48:29 -0500, "Angelo DePalma"
wrote:



"Sam Sloan" wrote

For players on the low end of the scale, FIDE ratings are higher. To
give an extreme example, John Warlick of the US Virgin Islands had a
2205 FIDE rating and a 1540 USCF rating.

Maybe he played his last USCF tournament in 1983.

I know two people with higher FIDE ratings than USCF ratings. Both are over
the hill players who got their FIDEs 6-7 years ago. If they played in FIDE
events they'd lose points for sure.

I don't know if it's statistically possible to have the situation you
mention, since there's a good deal of inter-playing among rating groups
except for the over-2700 crowd.

At any rate what you're claiming is counter-intuitive. You'll have to prove
it with some concrete examples, and not just one guy from the Virgin
Islands.

Tell you what...without looking up ratings give me 15 relatively low-rated
NY players who you believe may be FIDE rated. I'll look them up.

Angelo

Ken Sloan has a website about this, with hundreds of examples. I
recommend you look at it. It is on the University of Alabama website.

Sam Sloan

(Sam Sloan) writes:


Ken Sloan, posting on another group where you used to be a member but
have since unsubscribed, has respoded by saying that very high rated
players, above 2600 are rated 100 points higher by the USCF than by
FIDE.


No, I did not. Please provide a direct quote...or a retraction.



--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

(Sam Sloan) writes:


Ken Sloan has a website about this, with hundreds of examples.

No, I don't

I
recommend you look at it. It is on the University of Alabama website.

Why would I maintain a website there?



--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

On 31 Mar 2004 21:11:22 -0600, Kenneth Sloan
wrote:

(Sam Sloan) writes:


Ken Sloan has a website about this, with hundreds of examples.

No, I don't

I
recommend you look at it. It is on the University of Alabama website.

Why would I maintain a website there?



--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

What about this one you display right he
http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

That is the University of Alabama website, is it not?

Nice pictures of you playing the tuba.

Have you moved your chess ratings articles, because they were there
before?

Sam "no relation" Sloan

(Sam Sloan) writes:

What about this one you display right he
http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

That is the University of Alabama website, is it not?

It is not.


Nice pictures of you playing the tuba.

Have you moved your chess ratings articles, because they were there
before?

No, they were not.

Still waiting for a retraction on your inaccurate paraphrasing.

--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

I can tell this is going to be one of those threads.

So Ken, did you ever go to Blimpies when you lived in Hoboken? I worked
there for three summers, and my mother worked in the bookstore at SIT. My
father is an alum also, but not a graduate. I'm sure there was something
inaccurate in that last sentence.

Ang

"Sam Sloan" wrote in message
...
On 31 Mar 2004 21:11:22 -0600, Kenneth Sloan
wrote:

(Sam Sloan) writes:


Ken Sloan has a website about this, with hundreds of examples.

No, I don't

I
recommend you look at it. It is on the University of Alabama website.

Why would I maintain a website there?



--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

What about this one you display right he
http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

That is the University of Alabama website, is it not?

Nice pictures of you playing the tuba.

Have you moved your chess ratings articles, because they were there
before?

Sam "no relation" Sloan

Kenneth Sloan wrote:
(Sam Sloan) writes:
What about this one you display right he
http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

That is the University of Alabama website, is it not?

It is not.

It isn't *the* University of Alabama website. However, it is a webpage
on the website of the Department of Computer and Information Scinces of
the University of Alabama at Birmingham. It is *a* University of Alabama
webpage; it is *part of* the University of Alabama website.

Let's stop playing silly buggers, everyone.


Dave.

--
David Richerby Hungry Edible Ghost (TM): it's like
www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~davidr/ a haunting spirit but you can eat it
and it'll eat you!

"Angelo DePalma" writes:

I can tell this is going to be one of those threads.

So Ken, did you ever go to Blimpies when you lived in Hoboken?

I never lived in Hoboken. It's not entirely clear that *anyone* ever
lived in Hoboken.


--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

Somewhere, NJ. April 1, 2004 --

I'm fascinated by your ideas on geography and identity. You should write a
book debunking commonly-held beliefs about residence, location,
inhabitation, and other subjects we mortals have cloaked in myth and
mysticism. You can call it, "Where I Wasn't and Am'nt -- a critical look at
the wherewithall of non-entities and no-there-there wheres."

He who were, am, organ.

"Kenneth Sloan" wrote in message
...
"Angelo DePalma" writes:

I can tell this is going to be one of those threads.

So Ken, did you ever go to Blimpies when you lived in Hoboken?

I never lived in Hoboken. It's not entirely clear that *anyone* ever
lived in Hoboken.


--
Kenneth Sloan
Computer and Information Sciences (205) 934-2213
University of Alabama at Birmingham FAX (205) 934-5473
Birmingham, AL 35294-1170 http://www.cis.uab.edu/sloan/

(Sam Sloan) wrote in message ...
On 31 Mar 2004 15:54:52 -0800, (Nick) wrote:

(I was responding to a hyperbolic claim by Angelo DePalma.)

I happen to be at least 2200 USCF in strength, and I should not be
confident of necessarily 'beating Karpov from that' opening position.

As an example, I have played many (non-blitz) games against a USCF expert
with a well-established rating, usually 2000-2100 USCF (peak rating 2125),
and my performance rating was higher than 2200 USCF.

Gee. You are really good. Almost as good as Mig Greengard who informs
us that he is a 2300 strength player, even though his USCF rating is 1834.
http://www.64.com/uscf/ratings/12525629

For the record, I have no connection to Michael Greengard (aka 'Mig').

Sam Sloan's latest attempt to troll me by fabricating a spurious comparison
between me and Mr Greengard warrants no further response beyond disdain.

--Nick