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Subject: Re: Latest FIDE & SSDF ratings

Author: Tom Likens

Date: 07:40:24 07/03/03

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On July 02, 2003 at 08:20:31, bryan whitby wrote:

>FIDE have just released July's rating list and if you compare it with the latest
>ratings from Sweden (SSDF) you will see that the top 20 places are split 50/50
>!!
>
> 1	 Kasparov, Garry	                2830
> 2	 Kramnik, Vladimir	                2785
> 3	 Anand, Viswanathan	                2774
> 4	 Shredder 7.0 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz	2768
> 5	 Fritz 8.0 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz	2760
> 6	 Deep Fritz 7.0 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz	2759
> 7	 Fritz 7.0 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz	2740
> 8	 Leko, Peter	                        2739
> 9	 Topalov, Veselin	                2735
> 10	 Grischuk, Alexander	                2732
> 11	 Shirov, Alexei	                        2732
> 12	 Chess Tiger 15.0 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz	2724
> 13	 Svidler, Peter	                        2723
> 14	 Shredder 6.0 Pad UCI 256MB Athlon 1200	2723
> 15	 Bareev, Evgeny	                        2721
> 16	 Adams, Michael	                        2719
> 17	 Shredder 6.0 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz	2719
> 18	 Shredder 7.0 UCI 128MB K6-2 450 MHz 	2715
> 19	 Chess Tiger 14.0 CB 256MB Athlon 1200 	2715
> 20	 Deep Fritz 256MB Athlon 1200 MHz	2713

While this, on the surface, appears interesting in actuality
the two lists can't be compared in this manner.  The elo ratings
are only valid as a measure of a player's strength against
other players in the same sample set.  Comparing SSDF ratings
to FIDE ratings really is like comparing apples to oranges,
and about as useful.

regards,
--tom



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