Author: Tony Hedlund
Date: 11:51:08 12/24/99
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On December 23, 1999 at 13:31:02, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On December 23, 1999 at 13:06:20, Tony Hedlund wrote: > >>On December 22, 1999 at 18:59:10, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >> >>>On December 22, 1999 at 12:36:48, Tony Hedlund wrote: >>> >>>>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 Ã…kesson 2530 >>>>6. GM Pia Cramling 2515 >>>> >>>>Tony >>> >>>These are exactly the FIDE ratings, January 1st 1999. Does this mean that >>>Swedish and FIDE ratings are identical? >> >>Good question. I got the numbers from the Swedish chessmagazine Schacknytt >>(chessnews). It stated "the Swedish ELO-list", but I guess they meant FIDE-ELO. >>But then again they listed every Swede over 2200, 236 players. I don't think >>there are so many Swedish players with a FIDE-ELO. > >Yes there are, I just looked. Exactly 236 with an Elo of 2200 or over in the >FIDE list of 1-1-99. It must mean that Swedish and FIDE lists are the same, no? Yes, for these top players. But there are a lot of clubplayers with no established FIDE-Elo. And back in the 80's when we calibrated the list we usually played against these clubplayers. Tony >In this case, your list was calibrated for FIDE and the 2696 of Tiger really >means 2696 according to the SSDF. > >Enrique > >>Tony >> >>> >>>Enrique
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