Re:Peter Thiel & Garry Kasparov
by detokaal on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @07:25PM
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It appears his Fide rating is about 2200, which is comparable to about 2300 in the USA. For non chess players, his rating places him in the top 2% of rated players in the world.
Re:Peter Thiel & Garry Kasparov
by zck on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @05:11PM
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You didn't know Kasparov played chess?
Seriously, though, from what I can tell, Thiel is rated 2199[1], which isn't Master level. That's still enough to be the 21,246th best player in the world.
Here is his US Chess rating history:
http://main.uschess.org/datapage/ratings_graph.php?memid=120...
Seriously, though, from what I can tell, Thiel is rated 2199[1], which isn't Master level. That's still enough to be the 21,246th best player in the world.
[1] http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2022389
http://main.uschess.org/assets/msa_joomla/MbrDtlMain.php?120...
(As a U.S. resident, he probably hasn't had much exposure to FIDE-rated events... and in fact his FIDE profile says only 10 games)