31-08-2012, 12:32 PM
Not sure why you have posted this again as I had already acknowledged your reply as answering part of my post - see my post 24th Aug. - but I then went on to confirm that the main point of my post was to try and have confirmed that my understanding of how FIDE grades APA was correct, and if our chief grader thought that the FIDE approach was valid.
Even in Swiss events It does seem a tad unfair when players at the Euros or Worlds for example battle so hard and get wins against ungraded but strong players and get no credit (grading wise) from them [it obvious cuts both ways in terms of losses to ungraded players not counting either]. If the ungraded players play enough games against graded opponents to earn a partial grade it seems less of a distortion to use that partial grade than to simply ignore the results completely.
Even in Swiss events It does seem a tad unfair when players at the Euros or Worlds for example battle so hard and get wins against ungraded but strong players and get no credit (grading wise) from them [it obvious cuts both ways in terms of losses to ungraded players not counting either]. If the ungraded players play enough games against graded opponents to earn a partial grade it seems less of a distortion to use that partial grade than to simply ignore the results completely.