Where the 1489.6 rating comes from
From 5 matches played between 1 January 1975 and 1 January 1979, 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.
5 matches, from the most recent to the first
beat Shi Zhihao 3–2
01/01/79 · World Table Tennis Championships 1979 · Round of 16 · detail
+26.51463.1 → 1489.6
beaten by Li Zhenshi 0–4
01/01/79 · World Table Tennis Championships 1979 · Quarterfinals · detail
−23.01486.1 → 1463.1
beat Kjell Johansson 4–1
01/01/77 · World Table Tennis Championships 1977 · Round of 16 · detail
+29.51456.6 → 1486.1
beaten by Huang Liang 0–3
01/01/77 · World Table Tennis Championships 1977 · Quarterfinals · detail
−22.61479.2 → 1456.6
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.