Where the 1540.9 rating comes from
From 6 matches played between 1 January 1985 and 1 January 1987, 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.
6 matches, from the most recent to the first
beaten by Jan-Ove Waldner 0–3
01/01/87 · World Table Tennis Championships 1987 · Semifinals · detail
−28.11569.0 → 1540.9
beat Chu Jong-Chol 3–0
01/01/87 · World Table Tennis Championships 1987 · Round of 16 · detail
+20.71548.3 → 1569.0
beat Andrzej Grubba 3–1
01/01/87 · World Table Tennis Championships 1987 · Quarterfinals · detail
+22.61525.7 → 1548.3
beat Xie Saike 3–1
01/01/85 · World Table Tennis Championships 1985 · Quarterfinals · detail
+25.71500.1 → 1525.7
beat Mikael Appelgren 3–1
01/01/85 · World Table Tennis Championships 1985 · Round of 16 · detail
+23.81476.3 → 1500.1
beaten by Chen Longcan 0–3
01/01/85 · World Table Tennis Championships 1985 · Semifinals · detail
−23.71500.0 → 1476.3
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.