German 3 Dan Inflation
You, too, can call yourself 3 dan! Who cares if you're not actually that strong?
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Less than 2200: 15 2200-2249: 16 2250-2299: 31 2300-2349: 14 2350-2399: 4 2400 and up: 1
Lowest: 2096
Are these EGF percentile ratings of a sampling of German "3 dan"s, or something?
Tamsin: While I can see your point, MGoetze, don't you agree that it is a little bit cheeky for an 11 kyu to be complaining about "weak" 3 dans?
AlainWettach: Even at Dan level, the EGF ratings do not necessarily reflect the real playing strength of the players. This is certainly caused by the limited number of computed results. I just had a look at the German list and some of the "weak" 3 dans have a very limited number of tournaments computed. For some of the players, the last results are one or two years old. This is the problem of every rating system: if you don't have enough data, it can only be approximative.
mdm: Maybe part of the reason is that as a 3dan player you are allowed to play e.g. in the preliminaries for the German Championship.
Klaus: As a german dan player I still think that my tournament rating is worth nothing. In my last tournament I have beaten a 4D, lost and won a game against two 3Ds and won against a 2D. I still dont have a rating over 2200, because of one tournament in Bonn, long ago. Actually I play much less than a tournament each jear. Am I shodan? Have fun making jokes about 3D, no problem. See me fight a Dan player if you like to know how strong I am.
Herman Hiddema: Although theoretically a 3 dan should have a rating of 2300 on average, the Average Rating Grade Difference (ARGD) for the EGF ratings of dan players is -51. This means that actually, the average 3 dan should have a rating of 2249. In the above table, it seems that 31 players have a below average rating and 50 have an above average rating, which means that german 3 dans apparently slightly underrate themselves. A few should call themselves 4 dan to make the above list more fair.
IanDavis I think Herman makes a good point, there has been a divergence from average dan ratings ever since the first GOR rating lists were published.
tapir: Preliminaries for the German Championship require now a certain rating (2300?), so the reason to promote oneself to 3 dan without having or being able to maintain the rating is not existing anymore. And I know about a couple of players who deranked themselves since. The biggest problem EGF ratingwise are sandbagging czech and finnish players not german 3 dans in my humble opinion.