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Oct 25, 2017 · The first FIDE rating list is dated December 1970 and was based on games in international tournaments in approximately the previous 2 years. I guess that Arpad Elo will describe this procedure in more detail in his book "The Rating of Chessplayers, Past and Present" that, unfortunately, I do not own.
The FIDE ratings have been calculated yearly since the early 1970's, twice a year starting in 1980, and now four times a year starting in late 2000. Before 1970, the only widely-known historical ratings are those calculated by Arpad Elo, the inventor of the Elo ratings system used by FIDE.
International chess ratings have been in existence for many years. Professor Arpad Elo invented a rating system known as the Elo system, which was adopted by the international chess organization FIDE almost forty years ago.
The Buchholz system (also spelled Buchholtz) is a ranking or scoring system in chess developed by Bruno Buchholz (died c. 1958) in 1932, for Swiss system tournaments (Hooper & Whyld 1992). It was originally developed as an auxiliary scoring method, but more recently it has been used as a tie-breaking system.
Roger Cook was a Chess master and primarily known for being the inventor of the Elo rating system that is used in Chess to calculate ratings.. Roger Cook recently passed away on at the age of 80 years old.
The Glicko rating system was invented by Mark Glickman in 1995 as an improvement on the Elo rating system and initially intended for the primary use as a chess rating system. Glickman's principal contribution to measurement is "ratings reliability", called RD, for ratings deviation.
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Professor Arpad E. Elo refined the rating system to its nearly ideal form and the chess world owes him no less than the enjoyment chessplayers derive from chasing and earning the Elo numbers.
