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question to Nack

Posted By: Nack Ballard
Date: Wednesday, 24 November 2010, at 4:54 p.m.

In Response To: question to Nack (Christian Munk-Christensen)

By your suggested ranking scale (as I interpret it), players that I would call "strong" are typically in the high 90s, yet within a game's elite that is not considered anything special.

For example, of the five games you listed, Chess is my weakest. I've been a near-master (about 98 percent, by tournament scale), yet grandmasters (at 99.8 percent) wouldn't give me the time of day. Here is a quote from wikipedia:

    "A chess master is typically in the top 2 percent of all tournament players. A grandmaster is typically in the top 0.02 percent at the time he or she earns the title."

If you want to include non-tournament Chess players as well, masters are in the high 99s, and grandmasters a 1% subset of the remaining small fraction of a percent.

In backgammon, a Giant (player in the top 32) is 100 – 32/x, where x is the (large) number of players you intend to include in the pool.

I hope that helps. I'm not really interested in pinpointing beyond that.

Best regards,

-Nack

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