Kasparov at Banja Luka 1979: https://www.zenonchessediciones.com/el-debut-internacional-de-kasparov/

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A New Method to Estimate a Missing Initial Rating for Chess Tournaments

We Feature the 1979 Banja Luka Chess Tournament to Illustrate

Here’s a snapshot of the final results of this tournament as displayed on www.365chess.com.

https://www.365chess.com/tournaments/Banja_Luka_1979/24709

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.

https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo197901e.html

https://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo197907e.html

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).

https://en.chessbase.com/post/the-elo-rating-system-correcting-the-expectancy-tables