#35 - World Rapid & Blitz Highlights - Carlsen, Keymer, Nakamura
The Chicken Chess Club
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Is There Something Wrong With the Ratings?
The Swiss system means that if you're in the lower rate of group, you just keep getting bounced against strong players. If I play a match with Kymer of Aisie, it would be like, I will be 2500. It will be 2750 very, very quickly. But there has been attempts to solve it, but they tend to end up artificially and wrong. So maybe we just have to live with this in a way. And also, when Jan mentioned the opponents of Kamer, well, you get the feeling he just gets bombarded with strong players. And that's a bit unfair.
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