100 players over 2000 ?

It's going to happen soon : every month more players make it, and now 97 players are above the "magic" figure.

It doesn't seem so long ago that David Tebb won the race to be the first player over 2000 ... seemed like a much bigger milestone then. 3000, anyone ?

Originally posted by bolshevik
It's going to happen soon : every month more players make it, and now 97 players are above the "magic" figure.

It doesn't seem so long ago that David Tebb won the race to be the first player over 2000 ... seemed like a much bigger milestone then. 3000, anyone ?

it's pretty impossible to say what for example weyerstass' real rating 'should' be on rhp now, because the gap to others is so big. as it is, he gets 3-4 points for winning a 2000 player. soon he'll get 0 points for those. still, he never loses. same thing with many others. but as more and more players get to 2200-2400, there will be more points for the top dogs also, and the differences will become more visible. who knows, maybe they'll break the 3000 eventually.

Originally posted by wormwood
who knows, maybe they'll break the 3000 eventually.

They'd be accused of cheating long before they could hit 3000.

Originally posted by abejnood
They'd be accused of cheating long before they could hit 3000.

and now the 100th ranked player has reached 2000. I know it may not mean much to most of you, but it is a good feeling to get there, so good luck to all those out there who are still striving to do it.

Congratulations bolshevik for making it.

In fact we may suffer from some distortion in rating with verybody starting with 1200 and bringing in points to the system. But in itself the system should be consistent. So even if we had a 2800 person it wouldn't follow automatically that this person could beat Kramnik, or Topalev or Anand