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Subject: Re: What ELO is perfect chess?

Author: Mike S.

Date: 11:56:45 02/22/02

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On February 22, 2002 at 14:28:27, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>On February 22, 2002 at 14:21:01, Paul Doire wrote:
>
>>When chess is "figured out" what ELO will that equate to?

>When Professor Elo devised his scale;3300 USCF was given as the Elo of the
>perfect player.This correspondes to 3100 SSDF Elo.(about)

Crafty had a blitz rating once, of 3388!!

http://www.chessclub.com/cgi-bin/finger/finger.pl?handle=crafty

I assume the ICC uses the elo formulas for it's ratings?

I think the possible max. elo has been discussed before... Is it true that there
is no upper limit for elo figures (theoretically; I don't ask if a player can
perform >4000 in practise)?

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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