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Subject: Re: Explanation please

Author: stuart taylor

Date: 08:54:43 04/08/03

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On April 08, 2003 at 11:00:59, Harald Faber wrote:

>On April 08, 2003 at 09:12:05, Jouni Uski wrote:
>
>>I included Carson's ratings to latest Fide with interesting result :-)
>
>
>Carson's ratings? Did I miss something important?
>
>
>>1   DEEP BLUE 97....................  2862
>>2   DEEP JUNIOR X...................  2847
>>3   Kasparov, Gary..................  2830
>>4   DEEP FRITZ 8....................  2807
>>5   Kramnik, Vladimir...............  2789
>>6   Anand, Viswanathan..............  2764
>>7   Leko, Peter.....................  2746
>>8   Shirov, Alexei..................  2735
>>9   Topalov, Veselin................  2735
>>10  Bareev, Evgeny..................  2734
>>
>>Please no comments about different rating pools - all ratings are FIDE and
>>from same pool!
>>
>>Jouni
>
>
>How can DJ be higher rated than Kasparov when the match ended draw and no other
>public game of DJ has been played? Same for DF and Kramnik.

Because Kasparov has also lost more games in his life than has DJ.

Even if DB 97 is above Kasparov, that's mainly due to one game.
The truth might even be-3,5,2,4,1, in that order, 3 being the top.

There's absolutely no value in these ratings, any fool can understand that.
S.Taylor



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