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Subject: Re: Perfect Chess Is Approximately ELO 4000

Author: Alois Ganter

Date: 10:48:12 02/27/02

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>And the question was about _one_ "perfect player".  Not two.  If there is just
>one, his rating will continually rise over time and since he never loses, it
>has no real upper bound.

The rating increases per won game will become infinitesimally small (Elo is
based on a Gaussian bell curve) until the perfect player settles about 800
points above No. 2.

So today nobody can reach Elo 4000 at all.



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