Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:19:45 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 13:15:59, Jerry Jones wrote: >Does anybody know what the highest official ELO rating according to FIDE is that >was ever attained by a human, Kasparov that is. >Is it possible that a few years ago his rating was a few points higher ? >If Kasparov had declined to play Deep Blue, would this have influenced his >rating ? You can add one million points to his ELO rating if you like. Or subtract them. Just be sure to do it to everyone else and it is perfectly valid. ELO figures are only valuable as differences within a pool of players who have had many competitions against each other. The absolute numbers mean absolutely nothing.
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