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Suggested Idea for Performance Grading

Posted By: Timothy Chow
Date: Saturday, 4 October 2014, at 7:39 p.m.

In Response To: Suggested Idea for Performance Grading (Dmitriy Obukhov)

Dmitriy wrote:

If someone came up with say "3rd category WC player", I would accept it.

I think that's much better than "super-grandmaster" etc.

I don't think people will think it is silly to call same people Super GM's just because time changed.

The inflation in chess that you described is precisely the reason for my gut feeling about these titles. It's not that "Super GM" is that silly (although perhaps the reason that it hasn't been adopted as an official FIDE title is that enough people think it's silly); it's that sooner or later (probably sooner) we'll start wanting a threshold higher than 3.0PR. To use a title that is even more inflated than the highest current chess title for 3.0PR is just asking for future problems.

If people really want the grandmaster/master terminology, then I'd say that the highest title initially (3.0PR, let's say) should not be called anything more inflated than "grandmaster."

if we accepted what Rick proposed, or something close to it, we would be ready to start something very soon.

O.K., this is the most compelling argument. But if the goal is to start something soon, then why not simply use Mochy's terminology? 10.0 club, 4.0 club, etc.?

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