Who is Raffael?
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they choose fake names so no one knows who they are. you should respect their privacy
calvinhobbesliker wrote: they choose fake names so no one knows who they are. you should respect their privacy
When you claim the spotlight, you lose all right to remain private. Sorry mate, thats how it goes :p
I really dont know... That's Chessbase's question too!!
news?
what makes you think it's kasporov
Or perhaps it is a computer?
I actually came across ''Raffael'' here on chess.com. Plays games here too it seems, or else someone is posing as the same Raffael on playchess. To lord-svestikov, cant be a computer because software assitance is banned on playchess.com.
i dont know who is him,but super attack is the best
Graw81 wrote: I actually came across ''Raffael'' here on chess.com. Plays games here too it seems, or else someone is posing as the same Raffael on playchess. To lord-svestikov, cant be a computer because software assitance is banned on playchess.com.
I was implying that this Raffael may have been a cheat (thus the alias). Of course it could well be a GM, I have no proof either way. A little speculation on my part.
Graw81 wrote:
Ok, Raffael is rated 3348 on playchess.com, the question is, who is he? is it Kasparov? Magnus Carlsen is 3051 just to put it into perspective. Raffael has been supplanted by Star Wars who is now 3403 and ultimatebourne 3350. Does anyone know these players real name??
It doesn't matter what Magnus Carlsen's rating is. I doubt that he takes online chess as seriously as he does major tournaments. If the top GM's in the world put all of their efforts into online chess, then I'm sure that online rankings would resemble the FIDE list. (BTW, "Star Wars" is GM Hikaru Nakamura.)
fischer wrote: Graw81 wrote:
Ok, Raffael is rated 3348 on playchess.com, the question is, who is he? is it Kasparov? Magnus Carlsen is 3051 just to put it into perspective. Raffael has been supplanted by Star Wars who is now 3403 and ultimatebourne 3350. Does anyone know these players real name??
It doesn't matter what Magnus Carlsen's rating is. I doubt that he takes online chess as seriously as he does major tournaments. If the top GM's in the world put all of their efforts into online chess, then I'm sure that online rankings would resemble the FIDE list. (BTW, "Star Wars" is GM Hikaru Nakamura.)
You missed the point all together mate.
Graw81 wrote: calvinhobbesliker wrote: they choose fake names so no one knows who they are. you should respect their privacy
When you claim the spotlight, you lose all right to remain private. Sorry mate, thats how it goes :p
Rubbish
Graw81 wrote:
You missed the point all together mate.
Actually, I think you missed my point. You used Magnus Carlsen's rating as a yardstick (ie; "Magnus Carlsen is 3051 just to put it into perspective"), which is incorrectly assuming that online ratings are accurate. My point was that online ratings shouldn't be used in such a way because they are, in fact, much less accurate than FIDE ratings.
fischer wrote: Graw81 wrote:
You missed the point all together mate.
Actually, I think you missed my point. You used Magnus Carlsen's rating as a yardstick (ie; "Magnus Carlsen is 3051 just to put it into perspective"), which is incorrectly assuming that online ratings are accurate. My point was that online ratings shouldn't be used in such a way because they are, in fact, much less accurate than FIDE ratings.
no no... you still missed the point. I used Magnus Carlsen as the yardstick to show that whoever raf is must be one of best in world. I dont assume online ratings are acurate in fact any debate about online ratings you will see i dont think they represent the full equation. [altho, fair to say one of highest players in world Carlsen, and also one of highest on playchess. The 'scale' may be off but relatively speaking correct.]
Anyway,i asked my question with a hint of um... 'who is this guy' as in, is this guy some unknown person in the chess world of OTB. I guess you could compare my question to, hearing the most beautiful guitar sound and thinking, who is this guy, like it couldnt be jimi.
AlecKeen wrote: Graw81 wrote: I actually came across ''Raffael'' here on chess.com. Plays games here too it seems, or else someone is posing as the same Raffael on playchess. To lord-svestikov, cant be a computer because software assitance is banned on playchess.com.
Just because it's banned doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Explain how to do it on playchess.com without being banned and i will believe YOU!
Graw81 wrote:
no no... you still missed the point. I used Magnus Carlsen as the yardstick to show that whoever raf is must be one of best in world. I dont assume online ratings are acurate in fact any debate about online ratings you will see i dont think they represent the full equation. [altho, fair to say one of highest players in world Carlsen, and also one of highest on playchess. The 'scale' may be off but relatively speaking correct.]
Wow, and you still miss my point. The scale is not "relatively speaking correct", and the facts clearly support this. Did you read my initial message? "Star Wars", who is rated higher than Magnus Carlsen, is Hikaru Nakamura; yet he is nowhere near Magnus' level. In fact, he's barely in the Top 50. I've said it twice already, and I'll say it a third time: Online ratings are not accurate, and they are not relative either.
Raffael is Bobby Fisher Jr.
It's better to have a very strong mystery player which members can talk about than to "just" have for example Leko or Svidler on your site. And since Raffael obviously isn't going to tell, it's all just guessing now. We won't know until he comes out.
@ fischer & graw81: I think you both have a point. True, online ratings aren't a good way to determine one's chess strength, but there is certainly some rough area you can place 3300 players in. Indeed, that Carlsen is 3000 doesn't mean Raffael has to be better or as good as Carlsen, but I'm 100% sure that if he's not a cheater, he's at least 2550 or even 2600 FIDE strength. I don't think you can get so high without being world class level.
Phobetor wrote:
It's better to have a very strong mystery player which members can talk about than to "just" have for example Leko or Svidler on your site. And since Raffael obviously isn't going to tell, it's all just guessing now. We won't know until he comes out.
@ fischer & graw81: I think you both have a point. True, online ratings aren't a good way to determine one's chess strength, but there is certainly some rough area you can place 3300 players in. Indeed, that Carlsen is 3000 doesn't mean Raffael has to be better or as good as Carlsen, but I'm 100% sure that if he's not a cheater, he's at least 2550 or even 2600 FIDE strength. I don't think you can get so high without being world class level.
agreed 100%
Ok, Raffael is rated 3348 on playchess.com, the question is, who is he? is it Kasparov? Magnus Carlsen is 3051 just to put it into perspective. Raffael has been supplanted by Star Wars who is now 3403 and ultimatebourne 3350. Does anyone know these players real name??