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Subject: Re: Tal and Fischer real ELO

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 13:33:02 11/10/03

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On November 10, 2003 at 04:32:24, bo brady wrote:

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>This is an excerpt from Scid's ELO file
>Tal is said to have had a rating of 2705 in 1980
>but in 1979:2615 and in 1981:2555
>Is the 1980 figure a mistake?
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>Tal, Mikhail N          #gm  LAT [2710] 1936.11.09--1992.06.28
>%Elo 1971:2610,2620 1972:2625 1973:2660 1974:2635 1975:2645
>%Elo 1976:2615 1977:2620 1978:2625 1979:2615 1980:2705 1981:2555,2560
>%Elo 1982:2605,2610 1983:2620,2620 1984:2620,2605 1985:2565,2565
>%Elo 1986:2600,2600 1987:2605,2625 1988:2630,2610 1989:2610,2585
>%Elo 1990:2585 1991:2565,2575 1992:2520
>= Tal, Mikhail Nekhemyevich
>= Tal, Mihail N
>= Tal, Michail N
>= Tal, MN
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>Also, Fischer is said to have had a rating of 2780 in 1992 and as of 1999
>But he did not play a single official tournament since 1972
>Is Fischer's rating here a mistake or purely theoretical?

 It's real.. the USCF Rating card is published in Gufeld's book about Fischer!
CY
>Fischer, Robert J       #gm  USA [2790] 1943.03.09
>%Bio World champion, 1972-1975.
>%Elo 1971:2740,2760 1972:2785 1992:2785 1997:2780 1999:2780,2780
>%Elo 2000:2780,2780 2001:2780,2780,2780,2780 2002:2780,2780,2780,2780
>%Elo 2003:2780
>= Fischer, Robert James
>= Fischer, RJ



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