THOUGHTS OF A CHESS ADDICT

Based on SCF October Rating list, most of my students have made improvements in their ratings. 3 have created their accounts in the SCF Rating List. Good work boys and girls!! My target is for all students to increase their ratings by 30 points for each half year. That is achievable should they work hard in their performance for the remaining tournaments to be held in the year.

As the SCF April Rating list is out, I took the pains to compute the performance of my students and here they are. The variance is computed from their last rating in Jan'11. If you compute it from their Jul'10 rating, the variance is even greater.        Generally, the students who were with me for more than 2 years had good gradual increases in rating. Kristine was an exception - her ratings were slipping when I took her on in November last year but she's climbed back to the 1400 level.    As the above students were not involved in the National Junior Squad program since June last year, none of their ratings were increased artificially (evidently when the ratings are rounded to 1200, 1300 or 1400 upon joining).