The ELO Rating was invented by Arpad Elo.
It was an improvement of the "Chess Rating System".
It reflects the relative skill levels of chess players.
A Grandmaster holds an ELO Rating higher than 2500.
A beginning chess player will start at around 1200-1400.
Depending on your opponents rating and the outcome of a rated tournament match you will gain or lose ELO points based on the ELO of your opponent.
Mathematician Arpad Elo developed his rating system for the game of chess.
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Go to a real tournament, they register, and assign you a rating depending on your results, and the opponents rating.
The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in two-player games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian physics professor and chessplayer. The Elo system was invented as an improved chess rating system, but today it has been adapted for use in many other games. You can obtain Elo by winning ranked games in League of Legends.
The ELO chess rating system is named after Arpad Elo who created the chess rating system predicated upon a number of statistical characteristics . The ELO rating depth also states something over the depth of the game . This total depth of a game is defined by two end points of the range of skills : the total beginner and the theoretical best play by an infallible, almighty opponent .Look to the related link below .
It is a system to rate various Scrabble players. The Elo system originally was developed to rate chess players. It later was adjusted to rate various other competitive games. See related links for further discussions about Elo ratings.
Garry Kasparov had the highest Elo (FIDE) rating in chess ever recorded with a 2851 set in July of 1999. A link can be found below.
2780 elo points as of July 2012.
Elo = 1250
Based on current FIDE rankings the strongest player would be Magnus Carlsen with an ELO of 2837.
2495 as of 2013
His peak rating was the world record for highest FIDE rating.