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Today a little note on the grade rating, in England, and the FIDE ELO rating. I am new to this as I am born in the Netherlands and played for over 30 years with the ELO rating. I didn’t even know that was such a thing as a English Standard and  Rapid Game rating until yesterday. I wanted to join a club and asked for the average rating of the club. The answer was very surprising as I thought that a ELO rating of 130 was a bit low .

Searching the Internet on this a see that I am not the only one thinking why we, here in England, should be different then the rest of the world. English masters have to grade, ELO and an English grade.

Of course every rating system have it flaws and will never be perfect but why not have all the same rating system and and adopt the FIDE ELO then at least when we compare players from all over the world we know what we are talking about.

Any comments on this are welcome.

-T-