Where the 1607.8 rating comes from
From 12 matches played between 1 January 1979 and 29 September 1988, 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.
12 matches, from the most recent to the first
beat Lu Yaohua 3–2
01/01/79 · World Table Tennis Championships 1979 · Quarterfinals · detail
+18.81576.1 → 1594.9
beat Liang Geliang 3–2
01/01/79 · World Table Tennis Championships 1979 · Semifinals · detail
+22.91553.2 → 1576.1
beat Huang Liang 3–1
01/01/79 · World Table Tennis Championships 1979 · Round of 16 · detail
+23.11530.1 → 1553.2
beat Guo Yuehua 3–1
01/01/79 · World Table Tennis Championships 1979 · Final · detail
+30.11500.0 → 1530.1
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.