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Scale of Open/Intermediate Players

Posted By: Marv Porten
Date: Sunday, 26 April 2009, at 6:30 p.m.

In Response To: Scale of Open/Intermediaate Players (Rory)

In determining your average ER: (1) don't include any matches less than 11 points, (2) underweight or disregard your low ER matches which are low because you lost 13-2, for example, and were blitzed and/or on the bar most of the time (these should be treated as 5 or 7 point matches for "average ER" purposes), (3) underweight or disregard your high ER matches which are high because, e.g., you were dinged 8 straight times for not doubling when you decided to play for the gammon or because it was one of those complicated 60 move games where GNU 3-ply evaluation will disagree every third move with your placement of a spare checker. If under those criteria your average ER is 6 or less, you should play at the championship/open level at ABT events.

I'm a recreational, intermediate level player with an average ER of a touch less than 7 (based on hundreds of practice matches against GNU). I win about 35% of the time against GNU grandmaster 3-ply, and about 54% of the time against intermediates. I'd probably win 40-42% of matches against open/championship level players (so my chances of winning a 7-round tournament in that division are 500 to 1, but only 75-80 to 1 in the intermediates).

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