Bob Armstrong
03-17-2012, 05:05 AM
The CFC Regular Chess Post – March 17/12 – CFC “ Quick Chess “ Rating List – More Info.
GTCL Governor, Bob Armstrong, was the mover of the “ Quick Chess Rating System “ motion that was adopted by the CFC Governors at the 2012 Winter On-line Meeting in January. PEI CFC Governor, and CFC Treasurer, Fred McKim seconded the motion. The idea and initiative for this reform came from Bob Armstrong. Fred has taken care of the implementation phase, in close consultation with the CFC Rating Auditor, BC CFC Governor, Paul Leblanc.
The new system has great potential, and overall, has been implemented and brought on-stream in a smooth fashion. The first “ Quick Chess “ tournament ever ( in Canada and the World ) was recently held this March in PEI, and is being submitted for rating in the new system.
Quick Chess is a rating list that stands on its own, separate from the Regular Rating List ( the same way the old “ active rating list “ did ). The only thing is that in giving all players a new “ quick chess rating “ , some formula had to be used, to correct the many stale active ratings. It was felt that use of regular ratings in the conversion to quick ratings made them generally more reliable, than the old under-used and outdated active rating list ( and CFC had almost never used the blitz rating list it kept –only 2 tournaments were ever rated ). And in the conversion, it has worked generally excellently, despite some cases where arguably the conversion has resulted in higher Quick Chess ratings, than some players feel they deserve.
The only thing that has lagged perhaps is the CFC communication on the change – but the motion was publicly posted beforehand on both the members’ CFC Chess Chat Forum, and the CMA ChessTalk, for public input. There was a “ Latest News “ item on it on the homepage of the CFC Website. And there were other posts concerning it.
There has been a lot of implementation volunteer hours from Fred on the new system, and he has not had time to do all the updating needed on the website. The priority was to implement the new system as quickly as possible and start marketing it. So “ active “ still exists in places on the website, but these will now in due course be converted to “ quick “, now that we have the new system on-stream. CFC trusts that this should not cause a great deal of consternation, given this more extensive insight into the changeover.
CFC feels you will find the new system a great improvement, and it opens up the possibility of more cheaply and quickly marketing tournament chess to the general public.
[ Games between Game/59 and Game/5 qualify for " quick chess " rating ]
Bob Armstrong, CFC Public Relations Coordinator
CFC Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=628805206&drafts#!/group.php?gid=10564098798
CFC Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/ChessCanada
GTCL Governor, Bob Armstrong, was the mover of the “ Quick Chess Rating System “ motion that was adopted by the CFC Governors at the 2012 Winter On-line Meeting in January. PEI CFC Governor, and CFC Treasurer, Fred McKim seconded the motion. The idea and initiative for this reform came from Bob Armstrong. Fred has taken care of the implementation phase, in close consultation with the CFC Rating Auditor, BC CFC Governor, Paul Leblanc.
The new system has great potential, and overall, has been implemented and brought on-stream in a smooth fashion. The first “ Quick Chess “ tournament ever ( in Canada and the World ) was recently held this March in PEI, and is being submitted for rating in the new system.
Quick Chess is a rating list that stands on its own, separate from the Regular Rating List ( the same way the old “ active rating list “ did ). The only thing is that in giving all players a new “ quick chess rating “ , some formula had to be used, to correct the many stale active ratings. It was felt that use of regular ratings in the conversion to quick ratings made them generally more reliable, than the old under-used and outdated active rating list ( and CFC had almost never used the blitz rating list it kept –only 2 tournaments were ever rated ). And in the conversion, it has worked generally excellently, despite some cases where arguably the conversion has resulted in higher Quick Chess ratings, than some players feel they deserve.
The only thing that has lagged perhaps is the CFC communication on the change – but the motion was publicly posted beforehand on both the members’ CFC Chess Chat Forum, and the CMA ChessTalk, for public input. There was a “ Latest News “ item on it on the homepage of the CFC Website. And there were other posts concerning it.
There has been a lot of implementation volunteer hours from Fred on the new system, and he has not had time to do all the updating needed on the website. The priority was to implement the new system as quickly as possible and start marketing it. So “ active “ still exists in places on the website, but these will now in due course be converted to “ quick “, now that we have the new system on-stream. CFC trusts that this should not cause a great deal of consternation, given this more extensive insight into the changeover.
CFC feels you will find the new system a great improvement, and it opens up the possibility of more cheaply and quickly marketing tournament chess to the general public.
[ Games between Game/59 and Game/5 qualify for " quick chess " rating ]
Bob Armstrong, CFC Public Relations Coordinator
CFC Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/notes.php?id=628805206&drafts#!/group.php?gid=10564098798
CFC Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/ChessCanada