He had a peak Elo rating of 2780, and his 90 total months at world number one is second all-time behind only Garry Kasparov since the inception of the FIDE ranking list in 1971.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

* 1903 – Arpad Elo, American chess player, created the Elo rating system ( d. 1992 )

* Arpad Elo ( 1903 – 1992 ), American creator of the Elo rating system

In essence, the proposals built on the work done by Professor Elo in devising his Elo rating system.

The establishment of an updated list of players and their Elo rating enabled significantly strong international chess tournaments to be allocated a " Category ", based on the average rating of the contestants.

For instance, it was decided that ' Category 1 ' status would apply to tournaments with an average Elo rating of participants falling within the range 2251 – 2275 ; similarly Category 2 would apply to the range 2276 – 2300 etc.

Polgár was ranked number 36 in the world on the July 2012 FIDE rating list with an Elo rating of 2709, the woman on FIDE's Top 100 Players list, and has been ranked as high as eighth ( in 2005 ).

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For the 40 years prior to that, the trend had been that the best machines gained about 40 points per year in the Elo rating while the best humans only gained roughly 2 points per year.

Specialized machine-only Elo pools have been created for rating machines, but such numbers, while similar in appearance, should not be directly compared.

A recent top chess engine, Rybka, has an estimated Elo rating of about 3200 ( when running on an up-to-date PC, as computed by SSDF ).

His performance was equivalent to an Elo rating of 2950.

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess.

The Elo system was invented as an improved chess rating system, but today it is also used in many other games.

The phrase " Elo rating " is often used to mean a player's chess rating as calculated by FIDE.

It would be more accurate to refer to all of the above ratings as Elo ratings, and none of them as the Elo rating.

On behalf of the USCF, Elo devised a new system with a more sound statistical basis.

On the other hand, the computational simplicity of the Elo system has proven to be one of its greatest assets.

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For example, Crazy Stone learns move generation patterns from several hundred sample games, using a generalization of the Elo rating system.

* Elo rating system, a rating system used in chess and in other sports and games

He reached his top rank in the Elo rating system at the start of 1971, equal third in the world ( with Korchnoi, behind Fischer and Spassky ) with a rating of 2660.

An Elo rating system was used to assign points based on each win or loss, and the colleges were ranked based on their Elo points.

The DCI maintains a global player ratings database based on a variation of the Elo rating system and members have access to their entire tournament history online.

Rise of Nations uses an Elo rating system to rank players.

The " Battle of Berne " in theoretical abstract terms, was one of the highest ranked contests of the 20th century according to the Elo rating system in men's senior international competition.

FIDE calculates the Elo ratings of players and uses these as the basis on which it awards titles for achievement in competitive play: FIDE Master, International Master, International Grandmaster, and women's versions of those titles.

The tournament finished with a three-way tie for first with the winner, Kramnik being decided by Elo over Mamedyarov and Kamsky.

The Czechoslovak New Wave ( also incorrectly Czech New Wave ) is a term used for the early films of 1960s Czech directors Miloš Forman, Věra Chytilová, Ivan Passer, Jaroslav Papoušek, Jiří Menzel, Jan Němec, Jaromil Jireš, Vojtěch Jasný, Evald Schorm and Slovak directors Juraj Herz, Juraj Jakubisko, Štefan Uher, Ján Kádár, Elo Havetta and others.

The ' Rising Stars ' won the match 22 – 28, with Carlsen achieving the best individual score for the youngsters, 6½ / 10 and a 2700 Elo performance, thus winning the right to participate in the 2007 Melody Amber tournament.

In the first tournament, in Baku, Azerbaijan, in April – May 2008, he finished in a three-way tie for first place, with another 2800 Elo performance.

Her January 2010 FIDE Elo rating was 2614, placing her number two in the world for women's players ( behind Judit Polgár ).

Although The Finnish national team has never qualified for a finals tournament of the World Cup or the European Championships, the Nordic nation made remarkable progression in the 2000s reaching a peak of 30th on the Elo Rankings, under coach of Roy Hodgson they achieved notable results against much more established European teams.

Hopes were high going into qualification for Euro 2004 after the promising last campaign and friendly wins over the likes of Norway, Belgium and Portugal ( which seen the Finns jump from 40th – 30th in the Elo ranking ).

Kozul's win over Rublevsky took his score for the event to 5½ / 6 with an Elo performance rating of over 3000.

Among his most notable results are 7. 5 / 10 at the 2000 Chess Olympiad ( winning Bronze Medal for board 2 and gaining the highest Elo performance rating at 2803. 7 ) and 7 / 11 at the 2002 Chess Olympiad ; first place in the overall standings at the Amber tournament in 2002, 2004 ( shared with Kramnik ) and 2006 ( shared with Anand ); first place in Biel tournament three times: 2003, 2004 and 2006 ; and twice

* Elo rating with world rankings and historical development since 1990 ( benoni. de / schach / elo ) for Vassily Ivanchuk

It was published for Amiga, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, MSX, Macintosh, and DOS ; the game had a chess engine written by David Kittinger, and the manufacturer rated the game at 2000 Elo USCF, in reality it plays at approximately 1550-1600 Elo ( 1750-1800 USCF ).

In 1970, FIDE adopted Elo's system for rating current players, so one way to compare players of different eras is to compare their Elo ratings.

Harkness was responsible for bringing Swiss system tournaments to the United States, and also introduced the Harkness rating system, which was a precursor to the Elo rating system.

Arpad Emrick Elo ( born Élő Árpád Imre, August 25, 1903 – November 5, 1992 ) is the creator of the Elo rating system for two-player games such as chess.

Elo is best known for his system of rating chess players.

* Elo rating with world rankings and historical development since 1999 ( benoni. de / schach / elo ) for Bu Xiangzhi

Unlike the Elo rating system developed for chess, the masterpoint system is strictly one of accumulation.

In 2011 the company was the first company to win the Rudolf Nureyev Prize for New Dance, allowing the company to purchase a new piece by Jorma Elo.