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Subject: Maybe ...

Author: GuyHaworth

Date: 08:05:41 10/06/03

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As many said previously, the absolute numbers mean nothing:  it is the
difference between the ELO numbers for two players that indicates relative
strength.

But I assume your question is posed about the rating system as it is now, not as
it might be with a hypothetical 200 added (in which the answer is "It has been
done already").

If a 'perfect player' starts off with a rating of 1500' and wins all its games,
playing at each stage someone with its own rating (or the next one down), I
wonder how long it would take before it was playing GK at the top, and then how
long it would take to get to round numbers like 2900, 3000 etc.

In fact, I do not know if there is an upper ELO limit, an asymptote for its ELO
score.

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