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- From: sloan@cis.uab.edu (Kenneth Sloan)
- Subject: Re: ClassC to B ratings question. provisional? etc?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.225135.22064@cis.uab.edu>
- Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- References: <1993Jan25.194319.22682@news.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:51:35 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.194319.22682@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> elowther@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Edward Lowther) writes:
- >
- >Well, I've almost touched the top of Class C, and will soon
- >be Class B. But how could I be wrong? Well, my last provisional
- >game was one of the three I thought would put me there.
- > Beating a 7XX rated (10 year old) as my 20th game doesn't make the
- >thing go down, does it?
-
- Yes. On the other hand...losing to a 24XX would "make the thing" go up.
- The PR calculation giveth, and the PR calculation taketh away. Not to
- worry, in 25 more games, the rating system will have forgotten all about
- it.
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