The Rating of Chessplayers, Past and Present

Anderssen applied Argentina Austria average rating basis Bulgaria calculated Capablanca century chess activity Chess Federation chess performances chess proficiency chessmasters chessplayers class interval competition Correspondence Chess current rating Czechoslovakia deflation Elo Rating System Elo system England equation expected score FIDE pool FIDE ratings game points game score Grandmasters graph higher-rated player Holland Hungary Iceland indicated individual International Masters logistic function match Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution measurements Morphy normal distribution normal probability norms number of games Open Tournaments opponents percentage score performance rating formula period play player rating Poland Portisch probability function rated players rating difference rating list rating point rating pool rating scale ratio round robin Russia sample scoring probabilities Soviet Union standard deviation statistical Steinitz theory tion United unrated player USCF Vladimir West Germany Wijk aan Zee Yugoslavia