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Subject: Re: What ELO is perfect chess?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 12:22:27 02/22/02

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On February 22, 2002 at 15:15:48, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:

>On February 22, 2002 at 14:56:45, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>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
>Actually there is a theoretical limit.Also I am not talking about BLITZ
>ratings but the rating at 40/2 (at the time of Profeessor elo 40/2.5)
>As a mathematician I am aware that there has to be a theoretical limit to
>an Elo rating because the nature of chess in FINITE this easily translates to
>FINITE rating.It is my personal belief that this translates to 3300 USCF

The 'sinners repent' thread in CTF was a lot more artful, I think.

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