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Subject: Re: What ELO is perfect chess?

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:20:43 02/22/02

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On February 22, 2002 at 16:04:24, Albert Silver wrote:

>On February 22, 2002 at 15:52:59, ALI MIRAFZALI wrote:
>
>>I work in the area known as Analysis.Anyway this is how I came up with the
>>300 number.I think it is just a good rule of thumb ( I have not still conducted
>>any experiments yet) .For example many comps action rated by the USCF have
>>action ratings 200 above the slow 40/2 rating.I merely added 100 to the action
>>rating to get the blitz .Nothing fancy.
>
>So you're saying that if a perfect player beats Kasparov 100% of the time at
>40/2 it will be rated 3300, if it beats him 100% at g/30 it will be rated 3500,
>and if it beats him 100% of the time in Blitz it will be rated 3600? I suppose
>that it gets more perfect the faster it plays?

I think I see the progression.  It will be infinite ELO when he can win the game
in zero seconds. (Obviously, it's a form of derivative, since we can never
actually reach zero seconds.  But we can introduce a number called Megiston,
which is larger than any real number.  Then, we take the inverse of Megiston:

inf = 1/Megiston

to achieve a number which is smaller than any real number but is not zero.  That
is the time frame where the GM will have infinite ELO for completion of won
games.

A postal GM can never have an ELO over 2000, I think.

An interesting model, of course, but slightly non-standard.  It must come from
the branch of math known as "Analysis."



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