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A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE , the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation , and the English Chess Federation .
Arpad Elo was a chess master and an active participant in the United States Chess Federation (USCF) from its founding in 1939. [4] The USCF used a numerical ratings system devised by Kenneth Harkness to enable members to track their individual progress in terms other than tournament wins and losses.
Performance rating (abbreviated as Rp) in chess is the level a player performed at in a tournament or match based on the number of games played, their total score in those games, and the Elo ratings of their opponents. It is the Elo rating a player would have if their performance resulted in no net rating change. Due to the difficulty of ...
Darwin Laylo (born June 1, 1980 [1]) is a Filipino chess grandmaster.. Laylo won the Philippine national championship in 2004 and 2006. These wins earned him a place on the Philippine teams in the 2004 Calvià Olympiad and in 2006 at Turin.
30th Chess Olympiad held at Manila, Philippines in 1992 where he was Team Philippines' Board 4 player. He recorded 3 points out of 8 games registering 1 win, 4 draws and 3 losses for a low 37.5% winning rate with a TPR of 2257 as compared to his ELO rating of 2390. The team ended up in 31st place. [7]
He is also a three-time Philippine Chess Champion. On the March 2017 FIDE rating list, he was ranked number two in the world and had an Elo rating of 2822, [1] making him the fifth-highest-rated player in history. In 2019, So said his favorite form of chess is chess960 (also known as Fischer random chess). [2]
Though published in 1978, Elo's list did not include five-year averages for later players Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov. It did list January 1978 ratings of 2780 for Fischer and 2725 for Karpov. [2] In 1970, FIDE adopted Elo's system for rating current players, so one way to compare players of different eras is to compare their Elo ratings ...
He was one of the premiere chess players of the Philippines during the 1980s and the 1990s and for a long period of time he was the No. 2 ranked player of the Philippines behind Grandmaster Eugenio Torre. Per World Chess Federation , his highest numerical Elo rating was 2437 which he reached in January 2001 up to July 2001. At present, he has a ...