Javier Posted January 2, 2011 Report Share Posted January 2, 2011 Maybe it's because I'm getting older, or I guess it's the melancholy of the year just gone, but 2011 is the 40th anniversary of the First ever published FIDE ELO Rating List! As a small homage, here's the top 100 list of 1971. There were a total of 593 players in it... : Fischer, Robert James 2760 g USA Spassky, Boris V 2690 g URS Korchnoi, Viktor 2670 g URS Larsen, Bent 2660 g DEN Petrosian, Tigran 2640 g URS Polugaevsky, Lev 2640 g URS Botvinnik, Mikhail 2630 g URS Portisch, Lajos 2630 g HUN Smyslov, Vassily 2620 g URS Tal, Mihail N 2620 g URS Geller, Efim 2615 g URS Keres, Paul 2615 g URS Stein, Leonid 2605 g URS Hort, Vlastimil 2605 g CZE Gligoric, Svetozar 2600 g YUG Taimanov, Mark E 2600 g URS Bronstein, David I 2590 g URS Huebner, Robert 2590 g BRD Gipslis, Aivars 2580 g URS Krogius, Nikolai V 2575 g URS Balashov, Yuri 2570 m URS Savon, Vladimir A 2570 m URS Vasiukov, Eugeni 2570 g URS Olafsson, Fridrik 2570 g ISL Uhlmann, Wolfgang 2570 g DDR Panno, Oscar 2570 g ARG Tukmakov, Vladimir B 2565 g URS Ivkov, Borislav 2560 g YUG Boleslavsky, Isaac 2560 g URS Kuzmin, Gennadi P 2560 URS Suetin, Alexey S 2560 g URS Evans, Larry Melvyn 2550 g USA Kavalek, Lubomir 2550 g USA Reshevsky, Samuel H 2550 g USA Averbakh, Yuri 2550 g URS Kholmov, Ratmir D 2550 g URS Schmid, Lothar 2550 g BRD Unzicker, Wolfgang 2545 g BRD Furman, Semyen A 2540 g URS Gurgenidze, Bukhuti I 2540 g URS Karpov, Anatoly 2540 g URS Liberzon, Vladimir M 2540 g URS Lutikov, Anatoly S 2540 m URS Osnos, Viatcheslav 2540 m URS Darga, Klaus 2540 g BRD Mecking, Henrique 2540 m BRA Matulovic, Milan 2530 g YUG Parma, Bruno 2530 g YUG Podgaets, Mikhail 2530 URS Zaitsev, Alexander 2530 g URS Gheorghiu, Florin 2530 g ROM Najdorf, Miguel 2530 g ARG Sanguinetti, Raul 2530 m ARG Szabo, Laszlo 2525 g HUN Matanovic, Aleksandar 2520 g YUG Benko, Pal C 2520 g USA Lombardy, William J 2520 g USA Gufeld, Eduard Y 2520 g URS Shamkovich, Leonid 2520 g URS Zaitsev, Igor 2520 m URS Smejkal, Jan 2515 m CZE Pfleger, Helmunt 2515 m BRD Ljubojevic, Ljubomir 2510 m YUG Planinc, Albin 2510 m YUG Byrne, Robert E 2510 g USA Antoshin, Vladimir 2510 g URS Bagirov, Vladimir 2510 m URS Kotov, Alexander 2510 g URS Lein, Anatoly 2510 g URS Vaganian, Rafael A 2510 URS Andersson, Ulf 2510 m SWE Ozsvath, Andras 2510 HUN Pomar Salamanca, Arturo 2510 g ESP Markland, Peter R. 2510 ENG Filip, Miroslav 2510 g CZE Pachman, Ludek 2510 g CZE Kupreichik, Viktor D 2500 URS Donner, Jan-Hein 2500 g NED Sigurjonsson, Gudmundur 2500 m ISL Browne, Walter S. 2500 g AUS Bolbochan,Julio 2500 m ARG Nei, Iivo 2495 m URS Ciric, Dragoljub M 2490 g YUG Damjanovic, Mato 2490 g YUG Karaklajic, Nikola 2490 m YUG Kurajica, Bojan 2490 m YUG Minic, Dragoljub 2490 m YUG Velimirovic, Dragoljub 2490 m YUG Addison, William 2490 m USA Nikolaevsky, Yuri V 2490 URS Sakharov, Yuri N 2490 URS Barcza, Gedeon 2490 g HUN Bilek, Istvan 2490 g HUN Hamann, Svend 2490 m DEN Tringov, Georgi P 2490 g BUL Forintos, Gyozo V 2485 m HUN Lengyel, Levente 2485 g HUN Bobotsov, Milko G 2485 g BUL Radulov, Ivan 2485 m BUL Yes, there was a big gap between Fischer and everyone else! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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