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0 pointsdvt5y ago0 comments

> It doesn't suffer from the weaknesses that you cite, but even so, the problem of "rating inflation" is widely discussed.

Ah yes! Inflation is also a problem I've seen in competitive online games. Rating inflation was a serious issue with World of Warcraft PvP arenas circa 10 years ago (iirc Blizzard hard capped arena ratings at 3000 during WotLK). I don't follow chess much, and I'm not exactly sure how chess avoids it (or even if it does).

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freeone30005y ago

By the point you're playing ranked matches in chess, you're generally invested enough to keep playing. However, chess has a (statistically) significant inflation problem, to the point where you can only compare scores within the same decade or so meaningfully.

yesenadam5y ago

It seems there was a lot of rating inflation in chess, but at the top level, at least, it's stopped - the number of players over 2700 has been pretty constant for 5-10 years, a few dozen players. In 1990, only Kasparov and Karpov were rated over 2700.

https://2700chess.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990_in_chess

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