Next ratings list

[Megaman]

Hello I'm new to Australian Tournament chess, I'm curious, the last ACF ratings list came out in September 2004 right? When is the next one due, December 2004 or January 2005? Do the ratings list come out every 3 months or every 4? Thank you.

[Rincewind]

Hello I'm new to Australian Tournament chess, I'm curious, the last ACF ratings list came out in September 2004 right? When is the next one due, December 2004 or January 2005? Do the ratings list come out every 3 months or every 4? Thank you.

Hi Megaman. The answer is they were every 4 months but in the last year or so it has been every three months. March, June, September and December.

Their release is imminent.

[Trent Parker]

And welcome! megaman. welcome to the forum!

[Megaman]

One more quick question, I had a good tournament run recently(well, for MY standands anyway) and the last round I played was on 24th November 2004, will that tournament I played be counted for this upcoming December ratings list? Thank you!

[Trent Parker]

Thanks Barry Cox and tparker for the welcoming, nice to find a strictly aussie chess forum.

One more quick question, I had a good tournament run recently and the last round I played was on 24th November 2004, will that tournament I played be counted for this upcoming December ratings list? Thank you!

The following tournaments have so far been submitted for rating in the Normal system.

ACT
	29/10/2004  57  7  2004 Belconnen Club Championships
	29/09/2004  25 11  ACT Open Championship 2004
	27/09/2004  22  7  Murrimbidgee Masters
NSW
	14/11/2004  55  7  2004 Coffs Harbour Open
	26/10/2004   6  5  2004 Collies Champs Prelim A
	26/10/2004   6  5  2004 Collies Champs Prelim B
	02/11/2004   2  1  2004 Collies Champs Prelim B - Playoff
	26/10/2004   6  5  2004 Collies Champs Prelim C
	27/09/2004  18  7  2004 Mingara Chess Club Championships
	08/11/2004  36  9  2004 St George Swiss
	07/09/2004  18  9  2004 WOLLONGONG HANDICAP
	07/09/2004  13  6  CCLCCC  Winter 2004
	07/11/2004  38  7  CCLCCC Gosford Open 2004
	08/10/2004  20  8  CITY OF SYDNEY JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP  -  UNDER 15  -  (6-8/10/
	08/10/2004  11  8  CITY OF SYDNEY JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP  -  UNDER 18
	30/10/2004   8  7  Ettalong Spring 2004
	06/11/2004   2  2  Ettalong Spring 2004 Playoff
	03/10/2004  17  9  Fairfield RSL Chess Club
	20/09/2004  14  9  Hakoah Chess Club Championship 2004 Open
	20/09/2004  19  9  Hakoah Chess Club Championship 2004 Under 1700
	14/10/2004  46  7  Interleagues Premiership 2004
	23/11/2004  69  9  John Ford Memorial 2004
	31/10/2004  18  7  Laurieton Spring Open
	01/10/2004  10  5  NSW GIRLS CHAMPIONSHIP  -  UNDER 18  -  (30/9/2004-1/10/2004
	31/10/2004  16  9  NSW State Championship 2004
	31/10/2004  26  9  NSW State Championship 2004 U1600
	31/10/2004  29  9  NSW State Championship 2004 U2000
	02/08/2004   6  5  Newcastle Club 2004
	21/11/2004  49  6  Ralph Seberry Memorial Weekender
	22/11/2004   8  7  Rooty Hill Club Championship Division A 2004
	22/11/2004   8  7  Rooty Hill Club Championship Division B 2004
	22/11/2004   8  7  Rooty Hill Club Championship Division C 2004
	22/11/2004   8  7  Rooty Hill Club Championship Division D 2004
	22/11/2004   6  5  Rooty Hill Club Championship Division E 2004
	27/09/2004  39  7  Rooty Hill Open 2004
	04/10/2004  71  7  Ryde Eastwood Open 2004
	21/11/2004  11  6  Western Teams
QLD
	01/10/2004  38  6  2004 Australian Clubs' Teams Championship
	12/09/2004  12  6  2004 BRISBANE JUNIOR MASTERS
	03/10/2004  35  6  2004 Redcliffe Challenge
	26/08/2004  20  4  BCC Steinitz Memorial 2004
	04/11/2004  17  4  BCC Tal Memorial 2004
	07/10/2004  23  6  Brisbane Chess Club Championship 2004
	15/09/2004  10  9  Hardys FIDE Rated Classic 2004
	06/09/2004  27  8  Junior Masters 190704
	08/09/2004  22  7  Lou Wilkinson Memorial
	19/09/2004  76  7  Nell van de Graaff Classic 2004
	26/09/2004  12  7  Queensland Girls Champiosnhips 2004
	25/09/2004  14 13  The Gap CC - One Hour 2004
SA
	19/10/2004  89  9  2004 Pennant
	23/08/2004  30  7  City of Adelaide Chess Championship 2004
	03/10/2004  14  7  Labour Day 2004
TAS
	06/10/2004  16 15  HICC Club Champs 2004
	31/10/2004  27  7  Hobart  Weekender 2004
	12/09/2004  19  7  Launceston Weekender 2004
VIC
	29/10/2004 118  7  Box Hill Open
	17/08/2004  29  6  Box Hill Rainbow Championships
	26/10/2004  33  7  Box Hill Spring Swiss
	10/09/2004 132  8  CV Winter Interclub (Eastern Zone)
	08/09/2004  46  7  CV Winter Interclub (Western Zone)
	01/09/2004  45  7  Dandenong Grades Tournament
	14/11/2004  26  5  Hobsons Bay Best in the West
	16/10/2004   4  3  Hobsons Bay Invitational
	27/10/2004  19  5  Hobsons Bay Koshnitsky Cup
	13/07/2004  10  9  Latrobe Valley Club Championship
	19/10/2004  13 13  Latrobe Valley Winter Championship
	25/10/2004  33  9  Melbourne Open
	03/10/2004  11 11  Victorian Championship
	03/10/2004  10  9  Victorian Qualifying Tournament #1
	03/10/2004   6 10  Victorian Qualifying Tournament #2
	03/10/2004  10  9  Victorian Reserves Championship
WA
	26/10/2004  12  7  2004 Fremantle Club Championship
	24/11/2004  12  7  2004 Midland Open
	25/09/2004  14  7  2004 WA Junior Chess Championship - Open
	25/09/2004  13  7  2004 WA U14 Junior Chess Championship
	12/09/2004  13  6  Willetton Open

If the tournament is on this list it will be rated. May i ask what tournament it was?

[bobby1972]

I have a question for Bill,we have 2 turneys that finished in september last year at the MCC that have not been put in for rating ,when is the cut off to have this turneys rated at all , we are trying to get the details but it will take a while please can you tell us so as to be able to know the urgency,it is important to have them rated for the people who participated we believe it will make a big rating difference to many of our members.
thanks A.Pecori

[Bill Gletsos]

I have a question for Bill,we have 2 turneys that finished in september last year at the MCC that have not been put in for rating ,when is the cut off to have this turneys rated at all , we are trying to get the details but it will take a while please can you tell us so as to be able to know the urgency,it is important to have them rated for the people who participated we believe it will make a big rating difference to many of our members.
thanks A.Pecori

No doubt you will be aware, I mentioned here on the BB the fact that MCC had failed to submit some tournaments for the December list even though those events had finished well before the December ratings cut-off.
If the MCC memebers are unhappy about that situation they should take it up with the MCC Committee to have the situation resolved.
Although the cut-off for the March list is Jan 31st we accept events that finish after that time up until about Feb 20th as well as events that arrive late. However the Ratings offciers are not happy at receiving events that finished months before after the cut-off arriving at the last minute, due to poor planning on the part of the tournament organisers.

Therefore lets just say you should get those old events to the CV Ratings Officer ASAP.

P.S. I would expect the MCC should be able to immediately submit the MCC Australia day weekender to the CV Ratings Officer.

[bobby1972]

Thanks very much Bill for quick reply,i know we seem to have this problem all the time we are trying to avoid this in future.

[Garvinator]

Thanks very much Bill for quick reply,i know we seem to have this problem all the time we are trying to avoid this in future.

Since this seems to be a consistent problem at mcc, maybe you need to get a different person to send along the sp files to the CV ratings officer.

[eclectic]

Does the ACF has the same rule as FIDE ... that if an event is more than 6 months late it is NOT rated ?

Mark

[Bill Gletsos]

Does the ACF has the same rule as FIDE ... that if an event is more than 6 months late it is NOT rated ?

Mark

No, however there would be very few events that would be submitted more than 6 mths late.

[Duff McKagan]

Heh, the next ratings list is going to be hilarious. I've seen some precalculations already. I cant believe how that in a 7 round event if you lose two games to players at least 300 points lower than you and perform at a performance rating about 300 points lower that your rating goes down by less than 20 points, whereas if you hardly play throughout the year and have one reasonable tournament result, your rating goes up by nearly 150 points.
Having said that, i think everyone was gifted with some free points last year. Still, I'm a sitting duck, come eek me!

[Rincewind]

Heh, the next ratings list is going to be hilarious. I've seen some precalculations already. I cant believe how that in a 7 round event if you lose two games to players at least 300 points lower than you and perform at a performance rating about 300 points lower that your rating goes down by less than 20 points, whereas if you hardly play throughout the year and have one reasonable tournament result, your rating goes up by nearly 150 points.
Having said that, i think everyone was gifted with some free points last year. Still, I'm a sitting duck, come eek me!

Duff, the answer to your question is probably contained in the confidence levels of the ratings in question.

For example, if a player with a RD of !! loses two games to player with ratings in the ?? range. Then the system has far more confidence that the first players rating is close to being right and will adjust the lower ratings up far more than the upper ratings down.

In the second case, rating shifts of 150 points (up or down) are not that hard to come by if the RD of that rating is something like ??.

You should not be too worried about what your rating is. For starters. I'm sure you don't play chess to manitain a rating of a particular level, if you do you will begin to hate chess. A rating is just a number which helps place players into levels of similar ability for things like Swiss draws and "ratings" prizes.

Also in the glicko system a ratings should not be considered a single number, but a range of numbers somewhere wherein your "true" ratings is thought to reside. The published rating is just the tentative mean of that range and the RD is an estimate as to the width of the range. For example, a rating of 1400?? should be thought of as a 'true' rating somewhere in the range 1050-1750.

[Woodstocker]

Also in the glicko system a ratings should not be considered a single number, but a range of numbers somewhere wherein your "true" ratings is thought to reside. The published rating is just the tentative mean of that range and the RD is an estimate as to the width of the range. For example, a rating of 1400?? should be thought of as a 'true' rating somewhere in the range 1050-1750.

Mr Cox,

It would appear to me RD is s.d.

I assume the calculation for RD could not reasonably take into account games from the distant past.

What is the period of time or number of games used for calculation of RD?

IW

[Bill Gletsos]

For example, a rating of 1400?? should be thought of as a 'true' rating somewhere in the range 1050-1750.

Assuming of course the worst case of an RD of 350.
However since ?? covers a range of RD's then it could be 1200-1600.