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The list can be sorted by clicking in the column headers. For instance, if you click on
ELO the users with the highest ratings are displayed. If you click on ELO again the sort
order is reversed and the users with the lowest ratings are displayed. After solving at
least 20 problems a player with a registered account is taken into the rating list.
How can you enter your own nationality? The program uses the country settings that
have been set in the Playchess.com client.

3.10

Elo ratings

3.10.1 Elo ratings and lists
The Elo rating system was invented by Árpád Élö" (1903-1992), a Hungarian-born
American physics professor, who spelled his name "Elo" after he left Hungary. So Elo is
not an acronym and should not be wirtten ELO.
Here's a list of rating categories
Playing strength

Player category

1000-1600

Average club player

1600-2100

Strong club player

2100-2300

International league player

2300-2450

International Master (IM)

2450-2600

Grandmaster (GM)

2600-2850

Supergrandmaster, world champions,
Kasparov

The world's strongest chess engines, running on fast hardware, today (2005) have an
Elo rating of over 2800. They are a match for the strongest human chess players in
the world.
The Elo ratings can also be used to evaluate chess engines. This program helps you to

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