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Subject: Re: Chess Informant Performance Rating from Volumes 1 - 85

Author: J Mike

Date: 05:15:21 01/02/03

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>I went through and rated all the published games in Chess Informant from the
>first volume in 1966 through to the latest volume #85, published Dec 1,2002
>using the Fritz 7 ELO rater.   Understand , that the games published in Chess
>Informant are not all the games played in that period.  I am not certain if the
>Fritz 7 calculation requires a certain number of games for a player to be rated.
>  The games also include some rapid chess games.
>
>I found the results interesting (although clearly unscientific).  One could
>argue that these players make up the large majority of the best 150 players over
>the last 36 years.
>
>
>
>1    Fischer , R        2839
>2    Kasparov , G       2838

1965+ was peak of Fischer. His rating would go down if before 1965 period was
included.





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