In the family's own words ( during the third of twelve visits ), they had `` reached the crisis peak -- either the situation will give or we will break ''!!

At its peak in the 16th through the 18th centuries, the Ottoman Empire had wrested control of the entire Black Sea area, which was for the time an " Ottoman lake ", on which Russian warships were prohibited.

Its membership, which had fallen to 32, 000 from a peak of 110, 000 in 1983, increased threefold after Prime Minister Tony Blair made a commitment to nuclear energy.

When fully rigged and riding a tradewind, they had peak average speeds over.

Bluebird had completed a north-south run at an average of, and a peak speed of.

However, the area in the centre of the course, where Bluebird was travelling at peak speed on her return run was calm, and not disturbed by the wash from the first run, which had not had time to be reflected back on the course.

ELO had reached the peak of their stardom, selling millions of albums and singles, and even inspiring a parody / tribute song on the Randy Newman album Born Again, titled " The Story of a Rock and Roll Band ".

For Silius Italicus, who wrote as the games approached their peak, the degenerate Campanians had devised the very worst of precedents, which now threatened the moral fabric of Rome: " It was their custom to enliven their banquets with bloodshed and to combine with their feasting the horrid sight of armed men fighting ; often the combatants fell dead above the very cups of the revelers, and the tables were stained with streams of blood.

By 1981, at the peak of its popularity, CP / M ran on 3, 000 different computer models and DRI had $ 5. 4 million in yearly revenues.

During the show's peak in popularity, Hee Haw often competed in syndication against The Lawrence Welk Show, a long-running ABC program which had also been canceled in 1971, also in an attempt to purge the networks of older demographic-leaning programs.

Spindletop became the focus of frenzied drilling ; oil production from the field peaked in 1902 at, but by 1905 production had declined 90 % from the peak.

Although not reaching its 1970s peak in Westminster elections, the SNP had more success in the Scottish Parliamentary elections with their system of mixed member proportional representation.

Hydrofoils had their peak in popularity in the 1960s and 70s.

Haunted attractions in the United States bring in an estimate $ 300 – 500 million each year, and draw some 400, 000 customers, although press sources writing in 2005 speculated that the industry had reached its peak at that time.

During his reign Lithuania reached the peak of its territorial expansion, centralization of the state had begun, and the Lithuanian nobility became increasingly prominent in state politics.

* Guayabo – It is believed that the site was inhabited from 1500 BCE ( BC ) to 1400 CE ( AD ), and had at its peak a population of around 10, 000.

The Situationist International was a restricted group of international revolutionaries founded in 1957, and which had its peak in its influence on the unprecedented general wildcat strikes of May 1968 in France.

Anfield could accommodate more than 60, 000 supporters at its peak, and had a capacity of 55, 000 until the 1990s.

At its peak, the site had about 100 monthly subscribers to both Aradath and Galaxy.

In addition to the CMF, the Volunteer Defence Corps, a volunteer force modeled on the British Home Guard, was formed in 1940 and had a strength of almost 100, 000 men across Australia at its peak.

From the middle and late Eastern Han to the early Wei and Jin dynasties, the net growth of ancient Chinese science and technology experienced a peak ( second only to that of the Northern Song dynasty )... Han studies of the Confucian classics, which for a long time had hindered the socialization of science, were declining.

Banco do Brasil had a peak 10, 000 machines running OS / 2 Warp in the 1990s.

Over the course of their evolution, there were a huge number of pulp magazine titles ; Harry Steeger of Popular Publications claimed that his company alone had published over 300, and at their peak they were publishing 42 titles per month.

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.

Kramnik had exceptionally good results in 2009, winning once again in Dortmund and then winning the Category 21 ( average Elo = 2763 ) Tal Memorial in Moscow with 6 / 9 and a 2883 performance rating ahead of world champion Anand, Vassily Ivanchuk, Magnus Carlsen, Levon Aronian, Boris Gelfand, former FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov, Peter Leko, Peter Svidler and Alexander Morozevich.

He was ranked No. 1 in the world from April 2006 to January 2007, and had the second highest Elo rating of all time ( 2813 ).

In the April 2009 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2415.

He was ranked No. 1 in the world from April 2006 to January 2007, during which his Elo rating was 2813, which had been surpassed only by Garry Kasparov, and subsequently by Magnus Carlsen, Anand and Levon Aronian.

At the 2008 Linares chess tournament, Carlsen had another 2800 + Elo performance, scoring eight out of fourteen ( five wins, three losses and six draws ).

The 1994 tournament had an average Elo rating of 2685, the highest ever at that time, making it the first Category XVIII tournament ever held.

Fischer also had a much higher Elo rating than Spassky, or indeed any player in history.

At his peak, in the July 1991 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2590.

In the May 2012 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2769, making him the 9th-highest rated player in the world, although he has previously ranked as high as second, in the July 2008 list.

On the April 2007 FIDE list Kasimdzhanov had an Elo rating of 2683, making him number 27 in the world and Uzbekistan's number one.

On the January 2009 FIDE list, Bacrot had an Elo rating of 2721, making him number 21 in the world and France's number 1.

* In the October 2008 FIDE list he had an Elo rating of 2705 ( ranked 29th in the world ).

On the January 2007 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2583, just short of his five-year top score of 2595 achieved in January 2004.

In September 2011 he had an Elo rating of 2772, making him Russia's second best chess player, and the fifth in the world.

He had an Elo rating of around 2580 Elo in his prime, and of 2515 in 1986 and 2429 in 2008.

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 ).

By 1960, using the data developed through the Harkness Rating System, Elo developed his own formula which had a sound statistical basis and constituted an improvement on the Harkness System.

On the May 2012 FIDE list, he had an Elo rating of 2825, making him number two in the world and third highest of all time.

Even after these norms, Lie had still not achieved the required Elo rating of 2500 until he won the first two rounds in a local tournament in Porsgrunn at the end of February 2005.