Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 14:25:13 12/22/99
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On December 22, 1999 at 12:36:48, Tony Hedlund wrote: >On December 21, 1999 at 13:50:25, José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba wrote: > >>On December 21, 1999 at 13:15:11, Graham Laight wrote: >> >>>I apologise for bringing up a subject which has undoubtedly already been >>>discussed, but according to the SSDF ratings, Chess Tiger is 2696. >>> >>>According to the FIDE ratings, there are only 11 players in the world with a >>>higher rating than this. >>> >>>Can this possibly be correct? >>> >>>Graham >> >> SSDF ratings are not mean to be equivalent to FIDE ratings. They are supposed >>to estimate the Swedish rating the entries would get. I do not know how strong >>is a 2696 Swedish rating. >> Does anybody have the current Swedish human rating list? Some well know chess >>players must be there. >>José. > >Swedish ELO-list from 990101: > >1. GM Ulf Andersson 2623 >2. GM Ferdinand Hellers 2605 >3. GM Jonny Hector 2542 >4. GM Evgenij Agrest 2533 >5. GM Ralf Åkesson 2530 >6. GM Pia Cramling 2515 > >Tony Thanks Tony! Now to know if SSDF rating list is inflated or not, we only need to play its top entries against these top grandmasters... difficult to accomplish as most likely they will not play for free, but definitely a most interesting experiment. Imagine a double round Scheveningen tournament between a team of these six super Swedish players against a team of the top six SSDF entries! José.
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