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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