I'm guessing that players who move only one place and less than one rating point are not marked.I don't understand the "changes". How can Alex have gone down three spots when no one above him is marked as going up to pass him? I'm sure I'm missing something.
I think that rating creep is possible because there is no absolute reference for the rating scale. Since all the ratings are relative to other players (100 points means twice the scoring rate) it doesn't really make any difference when comparing players.Does it seem like all the pros are slowly climbing higher as a group? Maybe I remember wrong but at one point there was maybe one player or two in the 800s. ...
I'm guessing that players who move only one place and less than one rating point are not marked.
Yes, to keep it less cluttered I think i noted any changes for the top 10, changes or two spots or more for the middle crowd and 3 or more near the bottom.
But I think Gideon means "I don't understand how a Canadian can go down, under any circumstances...."
Did Yukio do something?
Nothing crazy... But he played about 80 games at the Japan open (including qualifying rounds) performing at about 800 speed and went up a handful of points. There are enough players close together so that you can go up a lot of places with not that many points.
Yes, to keep it less cluttered I think i noted any changes for the top 10, changes or two spots or more for the middle crowd and 3 or more near the bottom.
But I think Gideon means "I don't understand how a Canadian can go down, under any circumstances...."
I want to see the bottom 100 players