Where the 1601.7 rating comes from
From 24 matches played between 1 January 1981 and 30 July 1996, and from them alone. Every line below was written at computation time: nothing is recomputed to show this page.
How to read this
On the right: the change this match produced, then the value before → after. A line's arrival value is the next line's starting value, down to the starting rating given to every newcomer. A ±0.0 is a counted match that did not move the rating, a walkover for instance.
24 matches, from the most recent to the first
beaten by Jean-Michel Saive 0–3
01/01/93 · World Table Tennis Championships 1993 · Round of 16 · detail
−14.71619.5 → 1604.8
beaten by Persson 2–3
01/01/91 · World Table Tennis Championships 1991 · Quarterfinals · detail
−14.81626.9 → 1612.1
beat Chen Zhibin 3–0
01/01/91 · World Table Tennis Championships 1991 · Round of 16 · detail
+8.01618.8 → 1626.9
beat Ma Wenge 3–0
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Round of 16 · detail
+8.31610.5 → 1618.8
beat Kim Taek-Soo 3–0
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Quarterfinals · detail
+8.61601.9 → 1610.5
beaten by Jan-Ove Waldner 1–3
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Semifinals · detail
−10.91612.9 → 1601.9
beaten by Jörgen Persson 1–3
29/09/88 · Olympic Games 1988 · First round · detail
−12.71625.6 → 1612.9
beaten by Teng Yi 1–3
01/01/87 · World Table Tennis Championships 1987 · Quarterfinals · detail
−22.61505.5 → 1482.9
beat Andrei Mazunov 3–1
01/01/87 · World Table Tennis Championships 1987 · Round of 16 · detail
+25.41480.2 → 1505.5
beaten by Guo Yuehua 0–3
01/01/81 · World Table Tennis Championships 1981 · Round of 16 · detail
−19.81500.0 → 1480.2
Only the matches the source publishes appear; what is missing is listed. The source gives the day, not the hour: two matches on the same day are ordered by a reproducible rule, which is not necessarily the real order.