Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 12:50:36 05/30/02
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On May 30, 2002 at 14:56:10, Terry McCracken wrote: >On May 30, 2002 at 13:34:25, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 30, 2002 at 13:19:45, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>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. >> >> >>This is a continual problem. :) 32 degrees F means one thing. 32 degrees C >>means another thing. 32 degrees K means another thing. No way to compare >>today's 2850 rating to the ratings of players 40 years ago. > >That is very true, and although I hate to use the Chess "F" Word, IMO >"Fischer's" 2780 (FIDE) rating had more weight than _any_ 2800+ rating achieved >in the 1990's. > >No one came close to that figure back in 1972. There is no way to compare these >ratings to contemporary players but obviously back in '72, 2780 was amazing, >considering the relative ratings of that era. > >Terry I would agree, with the caveat that Kasparov's 2850 is also pretty amazing for a "number". I wouldn't begin to try to debate the virtues of Fischer's 2780 vs Kasparov's 2850 however... Since they never really played in the same rating pool enough to make it interesting.
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