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Re: Thoughts on CoOpertition

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Originally Posted by Leav View Post
Bill,
That is a very interesting idea which deserves further thought.
Are there any critics of the international ranking system for chess players?
what are it's disadvantages?
do you think it scales down well to 80 participants?

-Leav
There's one problem that I see with using the chess ranking system:

A new player in chess gets to go up against established players that are already ranked, so it's easy to see where they slot into the rankings after a number of matches. The problem with FIRST is that all teams start with a clean slate at the beginning of the year. I guess what I'm trying to say is that the chess system somewhat depends on a number of players already having rankings. I don't know how it would work when everyone comes to the party unranked.
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