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**santa** · 01-04-2010, 02:46 AM

Originally Posted by MOZ

And from what I have seen on the relevant thread on chesschat, not one grizzle has stood up to close scrutiny. My contention that the management of the system is accurate has not been challenged, and I would further contend that the ACF formulae are better than other offerings.

Chesskids has adopted a product-definition for their ratings to be
available for the first tournament played by a newcomer

and, updated immediately after each tournament.

Neither of these conditions are met by the ACF rapid-ratings system, so probably it (ChessKids) has to expend the maintenance effort itself.

This is just wrong.
Plenty of unaffiliated events can be rated.

Take care, Moz, I said that even if chesskids were to affiliate, their tournaments would probably not be rated by the ACF. beause they don't meet the criteria for rating. Rate of play, for example.

When I was running junior chess, I would have liked a proper method of ranking players, but I had to settle for personal knowledge. Or a tournament format where it didn't matter.

01-04-2010, 02:46 AM	#121 (permalink)
santa Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Meadow Springs wa Posts: 64 FICS Handle: johncs	Originally Posted by MOZ And from what I have seen on the relevant thread on chesschat, not one grizzle has stood up to close scrutiny. My contention that the management of the system is accurate has not been challenged, and I would further contend that the ACF formulae are better than other offerings. Chesskids has adopted a product-definition for their ratings to be available for the first tournament played by a newcomer and, updated immediately after each tournament. Neither of these conditions are met by the ACF rapid-ratings system, so probably it (ChessKids) has to expend the maintenance effort itself. This is just wrong. Plenty of unaffiliated events can be rated. Take care, Moz, I said that even if chesskids were to affiliate, their tournaments would probably not be rated by the ACF. beause they don't meet the criteria for rating. Rate of play, for example. When I was running junior chess, I would have liked a proper method of ranking players, but I had to settle for personal knowledge. Or a tournament format where it didn't matter.