Where the 1598.7 rating comes from
From 8 matches played between 1 January 1991 and 5 August 1992, 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.
8 matches, from the most recent to the first
beat Qiao Hong 3–2
01/01/91 · World Table Tennis Championships 1991 · Semifinals · detail
+32.71504.9 → 1537.6
beat Geng Lijuan 3–2
01/01/91 · World Table Tennis Championships 1991 · Quarterfinals · detail
+27.11477.9 → 1504.9
beaten by Deng Yaping 0–3
01/01/91 · World Table Tennis Championships 1991 · Final · detail
−22.11500.0 → 1477.9
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.