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Subject: Re: beyond 3000+ Rating inflation is the name of the game....

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 07:49:36 10/06/03

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On October 06, 2003 at 10:20:54, Torstein Hall wrote:

>On October 06, 2003 at 07:24:44, ludicrous wrote:
>
>>But isn't it that 3000 is perfect chess already?...and having a rating like 2900
>>is APPROXIMATING or getting near perfection?  Why should ratings exceed 3000?
>
>10-20 years ago a world class top 10 player used to be on 2500++. Today they are
>at 2700++ There seems to be inflation in the ELO system. I do not now the reason
>for that.

The numbers have no meaning except for differences.

There is an interesting ELO classification site here:
http://www.chessmetrics.com/index.html

Take a look at this graph:
http://www.chessmetrics.com/FE/Graphs150.htm



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