Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:28:00 02/14/04
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On February 14, 2004 at 04:45:12, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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. Did you see the key words "might have hit"??? There have been multiple 3000+ tprs. Given the rating inflation of today, it won't be long before there is a 3200+ tpr. > >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. I'd claim 3163 is "pretty close" to 3200... > >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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