A New Method to Estimate a Missing Initial Rating for Chess Tournaments
We Feature the 1979 Banja Luka Chess Tournament to Illustrate
7 min readOct 15, 2023
Here’s a snapshot of the final results of this tournament as displayed on www.365chess.com.
So, we have ratings for everyone, except for Kasparov and Gonzales. We shall then use the method we will explain on both of them to find ratings for them both.
What happened to Karpov, Korchnoi, Timman, etc here? Kasparov is just 16 years old and heads the rating list at 2545 (his provisional rating Fide gave him after the tournament).