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USBG rating system?
Posted By: Daniel Murphy In Response To: USBG rating system? (leobueno)
Date: Monday, 15 August 2011, at 3:11 a.m.
Re 1. All the organizations use identical systems, except for minor differences such as I noted, which they use to rate matches played amongst their own members.
Re 2. It has. Unless you mean: why doesn't USBGF join the Danish Backgammon Federation's rating system? Lots of reasons I suppose.
Re 4. I don't feel qualified to discuss chess ratings in detail. I'll just say that there is little international competition in backgammon. Few BIBA players play outside the UK. Danish and probably American players are more likely to play out of country, but the number of such matches is small in comparison to intranational matches played. Equal ratings in distinct ratings schema or in rarely intersecting subgroups of one scheme are not necessarily equal.
Chess has national organizations and an international organization (FIDE). Players are members of their respective national organizations. The national organizations are members of FIDE. Players earn national ratings (which are not necessarily comparable one-to-one with other national ratings, or with FIDE ratings) and earn a FIDE rating by playing in FIDE-approved competition. FIDE is responsible for FIDE. Who would be responsible, for instance, for an interorganizational backgammon rating list, in the absence of an international backgammon organization? That's not an insurmountable problem. But it is a consideration. Differences between backgammon and chess in terms of player base, organization, and resources are so huge, I think I'll just leave it at that.
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