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Subject: Assessing GM Strength

Author: Kristo Miettinen

Date: 08:57:17 07/13/99


Does anyone have any ideas on how to use computers to objectively assess the
strength of human GM's based on the games of past tournaments?

I ask because I simply cannot believe that current FIDE ELO ratings are in any
way comparable to ratings in the 70's (when the system was adopted by FIDE) or
those back-calculated by Dr. Elo for previous eras.

To take one example, Victor Korchnoi has a higher FIDE rating today than he had
in the 70s when he was the perennial World Championship challenger, and higher
than back-calculated for him into the late 60s when based on tournament results
and his own subjective assessment his career peaked.

This seems like a good area of research where the computer community could offer
a genuine contribution to the professional GM community.

Sine cera,

-Kristo.



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