"Matt Nemmers" wrote in message news:ZP34b.305751$o%2.137882@sccrnsc02...
No. I had a "ratings breakthrough" last year.
http://www.64.com/uscf/ratings/12763067 Went from 1031 to 1545 from April
2002 to April 2003. 514 points was pretty good, I thought.

I didn't do anything special though. Just rubbed myself in peanut butter
and sacrificed a goat while reading Guns & Ammo.

Mr. Nemmers,

Congratulations on your "ratings breakthrough". :-)

"As a result of a series of exceptional results in tournaments run on the
Swiss system, he (Gata Kamsky) shot to number 8 on the world grading list in
June 1990. Not having made a norm in an all-play-all, he still had no title,
but a rise of more than 300 Elo points in one year is without parallel."
--The Oxford Companion to Chess (2nd edition, p. 189)

When events did not proceed according to his plans for Gata, Rustam Kamsky did
seem eager to dispatch a scapegoat. But did he subscribe to "Guns & Ammo"? :-)

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."
--Mark Twain (Pudd'nhead Wilson)

--Nick