The history of the top chess players over time

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Note: The y-axis is a rating of how well chess players compete against each other. This rating varies over time, from EDO to CMR to ELO, because different data sources cover different periods of time. • •••••••••••• Music By ••••••••••••• • 'Mind Over Matter'' • Jay Man - OurMusicBox • / ourmusicbox • Rynos Theme by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) • Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... • •••••••••••• Data Sources ••••••••••••• • EDO Historical Chess Ratings by Rod Edwards (1809-1920) • http://www.edochess.ca/index.html • ChessMetrics Performance Ratings by Jeff Sonas (1910-2005) • (mistakenly says 1915 in the video) • http://www.chessmetrics.com/cm/ • ELO ratings from the FIDE website (2000-2016) • https://ratings.fide.com/toplist.phtml • I used cubic interpolation between data points when necessary (EDO and ELO) and applied a 6-month blur to the CMR data to make the lines smoother and easier to follow.

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