Where the 1606.6 rating comes from
From 7 matches played between 1 January 1989 and 1 January 1999, 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.
7 matches, from the most recent to the first
beaten by Liu Guoliang 0–3
01/01/99 · World Table Tennis Championships 1999 · Quarterfinals · detail
−18.31624.9 → 1606.6
beat Kim Taek-Soo 3–0
01/01/91 · World Table Tennis Championships 1991 · Semifinals · detail
+18.91605.9 → 1624.9
beat Jan-Ove Waldner 3–0
01/01/91 · World Table Tennis Championships 1991 · Final · detail
+32.41573.6 → 1605.9
beat Andrzej Grubba 3–2
01/01/91 · World Table Tennis Championships 1991 · Quarterfinals · detail
+29.61544.0 → 1573.6
beat Yu Shentong 3–1
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Semifinals · detail
+27.41516.5 → 1544.0
beat Xu Zengcai 3–2
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Quarterfinals · detail
+30.01486.6 → 1516.5
beaten by Jan-Ove Waldner 2–3
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Final · detail
−13.41500.0 → 1486.6
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.