Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 07:23:00 10/06/03
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On October 06, 2003 at 09:29:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 06, 2003 at 02:24:39, Peter Hegger wrote: > >>On October 06, 2003 at 01:26:31, swaminathan natarajan wrote: >> >>>in future can player or computer go beyond 3000+ rating? >>>is it possible to achieve it? >>>i heard from chessbase that most of the players had gone beyond 3000+ in a >>>single tournament(team chess) >> >>Hello, >>It will be difficult for a human to go over 3000 FIDE. Though humans have had >>TPR's of over 3000 in individual tournaments, it is exceedingly difficult to do >>it on a consistent enough basis to get an actual 3000+ FIDE rating. Humans, even >>ones like Fischer, Kasparov or Kramnik have never been within 149 points of 3000 >>FIDE. It will take someone much better than them to get that last 149. I don't >>see that happening for a long, long time. >>Computer on the other hand, can always be improved. I think they will get to >>3000 in the next 5-10 years and definetely before any human does. > > >I could envision a chess player that is as strong at chess as Marion Tinsley >was at checkers. If a player only loses a couple of games over a 20 year >period, he's going to most likely have a 3000+ rating, again assuming that >he matches Tinsley's overall performance and not drawing _every_ game. Kasparov may have been close to that in long periods during the last 20 years. If I remember right he never exceede 2800 something in ELo Torstein
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