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Subject: Re: Chessmetrics site has been updated with new data

Author: Darrel Briley

Date: 22:03:29 05/10/05

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On May 11, 2005 at 00:48:38, Pallav Nawani wrote:

>On May 10, 2005 at 19:17:47, Marc D wrote:
>
>>On May 10, 2005 at 18:53:18, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>http://www.chessmetrics.com/
>>
>>Hi Dann
>>
>>Thanks for the link.
>>How come Bobby Fisher has a higher rating than Kasparov?
>>Does this mean he is still the best player in the world?
>>
>>Cool
>>
>>Marc
>
>This is a hypothetical rating. As such, it is more of an _opinion_ than the
>truth. All of such ratings I have seen always have Fischer at top ;) I guess the
>people who make these ratings like Fischer more than they like Kasparov. It
>would not be hard to make some changes in the formula and get Kaspy at top.
>
>Pallav

The previous version of the site before the recent update of Mr. Sonas'
statistical methods showed Capablanca firmly on top in the 1yr, 3yr 5yr and it
seems like (unless I'm mistaken) the 9yr rating catagories



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