From: Sam Sloan <sloan <at> ISHIPRESS <dot> COM>
Date: 1 may 2001
Subject: Re: Yoshiharu Habu plays a chess tournament in Paris

At 10:46 PM 4/30/2001 -0400, J. Andrew Lipscomb wrote:
>Habu Yoshiharu's Elo performance for the tournament was 2455.  This
performance, if it holds up,
>places him just barely among the world's best 1,000 chess players, and the
best from Japan (the
>current best is Watanabe Akira, although the best historically among
active players has been Domingo Ramos).
>
>The current Pan-Atlantic shogi ratings would indicate that a 2455
corresponds to an amateur 5-dan.
>(To judge whether this is valid, the average tournament chessplayer is a
1500, or about a 2-kyu.

I disagree. A 2455 FIDE rating is close to Grandmaster srength.

This must be at or near to professional strength in go or shogi.

A 5-dan player is probably the equivalent of a 2200 player at chess, or
perhaps less but certainly not more.

Sam Sloan