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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.
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Elo and rating
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.
* 1903 – Arpad Elo, American chess player, created the Elo rating system ( d. 1992 )
* Elo rating system, a system for measuring the relative strength of players in chess and other two-player games
* 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 ).
* Elo rating system
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.
Elo and from
Arpad Elo was a master-level chess player and an active participant in the United States Chess Federation ( USCF ) from its founding in 1939.
Although a player might perform significantly better or worse from one game to the next, Elo assumed that the mean value of the performances of any given player changes only slowly over time.
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 ).
For example, Crazy Stone learns move generation patterns from several hundred sample games, using a generalization of the Elo rating system.
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.
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 ).
A later " final " list included players of a range of skills from Veselin Topalov ( rated 2737 and number five in the world on the FIDE Elo rating list ) down to Tarik Abulhul ( rated just 2076 ).
The following are the 128 players included in this list in order of seeding ( from highest ranked to lowest ), with the country they represent and their FIDE Elo rating on the April 2004 list:
At Gibraltar Chess Festival 2009, she started the tournament in great style, her 3 points from the first three rounds earning her an appearance on the top table, after defeating Maxime Vachier-Lagrave ( Elo: 2696 ).
Ivanchuk has been a leading player in the world since 1988, ranking as high as No. 2 on the official FIDE Elo rating list ( July 1991, July 1992, October 2007 ) and No. 1 briefly on the unofficial live rating updates from September 10 – 12, 2008.
He became only the second chess player from India to reach Elo rating of 2700.
William Roland Hartston ( born London, 12 August 1947 ) is an English chess player who played competitively from 1962 to 1987 with a highest Elo rating of 2515.
By September 2005, Nielsen's Elo rating in the FIDE list was 2668, at the time the highest rating for any player from the Nordic countries.
Elo and 2540
By Arpad Elo's calculation, Atkins ' strength during his five-year peak was equivalent to an Elo rating of 2540.
Elo and 1971
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.
Elo and when
He was briefly a world top 10 player when, in 1991, he ascended to the number 5 slot on FIDE's official list with an Elo rating of 2650.
The plan under this agreement when it was drawn up in 2002 was that reigning FIDE world champion Ruslan Ponomariov and world number one on the FIDE Elo rating list Garry Kasparov played a match, and that the so-called " classical " world champion Vladimir Kramnik and winner of the 2002 Dortmund tournament ( which turned out to be Péter Lékó ) played each other.
However, when the album was reissued on CD in 1998, the band's preferred sequence was used, with " Elo Kiddies " being the first track.
Elo and shared
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 and second
* Stockfish UCI chess engine ranking second in Elo as of 2010
With the significantly lowest Elo rating, he achieved a second place ( on tiebreaks ) with 7½ points after four wins, seven draws and three losses, and an Elo performance of 2778.
She became the second female player ever, after Judit Polgár, to exceed the 2600 Elo mark.
The side of that era has the all-time highest Football Elo Ranking in the world, with 2166 in 1954, also they have the second highest all-time Elo ranking of 2156, set in 1956, and one of the longest undefeated runs in football history, remaining unbeaten in 31 games, spanning over more than 4 years and including matches such as the Match of the Century.
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.
In September 2011 he had an Elo rating of 2772, making him Russia's second best chess player, and the fifth in the world.
According to May 2010 FIDE rating list, he is second ranked among Vietnamese players with 2642 Elo rating.
In April 2008, Bu and Ni Hua became the second and third Chinese players to pass the 2700 Elo rating line, after Wang Yue.
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