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Originally Posted by All-inMcLovin
Bob,
I wasn't referring to rating inflation but instead rating preservation.
Albeit *some* rating preservation probably still exists, this is not a great time to talk about it, because we are at a point where top guys are playing much much more outside of their "pool" than ever before in history.
You have Olympiad, European team champ (and World team champ to a lesser extent, but still), European Club cup, National leagues (Bundesliga, Turkish league, Spanish league, etc.), European individual championship, World Cup, Grand Prix to some extent, and then several massive opens, like Isle of Man, Gibraltar, the ones in UAE, etc., where multiple 2750+ are playing, and then a bunch of smaller opens that have 2700+ participants.
That is quite a lot, don't you think?