Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 01:45:12 02/14/04
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On February 13, 2004 at 15:56:00, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On February 13, 2004 at 15:54:18, Mike S. wrote: > >>On February 13, 2004 at 15:26:23, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>You can safely assume that those ratings are totally meaningless, if you are >>>thinking within the context of human FIDE ratings... >> >>Within the context of human FIDE ratings, a previous version of Hydra, aka >>Brutus, has achieved a tournament performance of 2765 :-) > >Tournament performance != Fide rating, unfortunately.. Otherwise Kasparov might >have hit 3200 more than once. You're exaggerating. That would mean that the average rating of his opponents was about 2800 and he would have to win every single game. This has never been possible. For example, a 4 man tounament today with the 4 top players would consist of: Kasparov 2831 Kramnik 2777 Anand 2766 Svidler 2747 The average rating of Kasparov's opponents would be 2763, so he could get s performance rating of 3163 tops. I don't believe such a tounament ever happened and certainly not twice e.g. Top Tournament performances The highest winning percentages for tournaments where at least four of the top ten were present. 1872 June-July, London, won by Steinitz 7.5/8, 93.8% 1930 Jan.-Feb. San Remo, won by Alekhine 14/15, 93.3% 1862 London, won by Anderssen 11/12, 91.7% 1876 Mar.-Apr. London, won by Blackburne 10/11, 90.9% 1873 July, Vienna, won by Steinitz 22.5/25, 90% 1867 June-July, Paris, won by Kolisch 21/24, 86.4% 1883 Apr.-June, London, Zukertort 22/26, 84.6% 1994 Linares, Karpov 11/13, 84.6% 1899 London, Lasker 22.5/27, 83.3% 1867 Dundee, Neumann 7.5/9, 83.3% As you can see, Kasparov does not even make the list. I think a 3100 performance would be a record. Check out http://www3.sympatico.ca/g.giffen/records.htm The most astonishing performances were in match play by Fischer in his now legendary drive to the world championship match with Spassky. 6-0 vs Taimanov and 6-0 vs Larsen. This will be very difficult to improve upon. > >> >>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1131 >> >>(this was 40/2h) >> >>Regards, >>Mike Scheidl
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