Chess politics - Re: WAZ 13 (was: WAZ 11)

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Re: WAZ 13 (was: WAZ 11)

Taylor Kingston

2005-02-04, 12:41 pm

wthyde@godzilla.acpub.duke.edu wrote:

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> My guess would be that plotting annual ratings, instead of
> five year averages, would show a bit of a bump for Petrosian
> after losing the title, followed by a slow decline through
> the later 1970s.

I tried to confirm that by checking old FIDE rating reports, but had
trouble finding any. CL&R's reporting of them seems to have been
irregular in the 1970s. All I could find so far was that Petrosian was
2640 on the July 1971 list.