Where the 1579.7 rating comes from
From 10 matches played between 24 September 1988 and 1 January 1989, 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.
10 matches, from the most recent to the first
beat Yoo Nam-Kyu 3–1
01/01/89 · World Table Tennis Championships 1989 · Round of 16 · detail
+34.51545.2 → 1579.7
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.