I think I saw an article on chess.com about this not long ago. Had something to do with FIDE increasing that max number of rating points you can gain in each tournament.
Edit: Per game, rather, not per tournament.
2000s to 2517 FIDE how did this kid achieve this in a few months ???
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He won the right games just at the right time.
http://www.chess.com/news/magnus-carlsen-tops-fide-january-rating-list-with-42-point-gap-5180
Just found the article. Scroll down to the "K-factor" section.
Yup FIDE has recently increased the K-Factor for all people under 18. The new K-Factor is 40, while earlier it used to be 30 for your first 30 games, and then 15 as long as your rating was below 2400. Now, it stays at 40, which means a huge rating change per game.
Chessgrandmaster2001 wrote:
Yup FIDE has recently increased the K-Factor for all people under 18. The new K-Factor is 40, while earlier it used to be 30 for your first 30 games, and then 15 as long as your rating was below 2400. Now, it stays at 40, which means a huge rating change per game.
Ofcourse this just means more rating inflation ...
Also he might have already been underrated
Jan 22, 2015
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There was a mistake involved:
Nevertheless, the most ostentatious change is considerably lower down the list in no.27 with 14-year-old Parviz Gasimov from Azerbaijan at 2517 Elo. The reason such a fuss is made is because in October 2014 he was listed at ... 1949 Elo. That's right, he has gained 568 Elo in three months. The first reaction, other than disbelief, is there must be foul play involved.
There have been extraordinary rises before, but this seems to really stretch the boundaries of credibility. But closer examination seems to indicate that if there are any oddities involved, it is not a result of hanky panky on his part, but FIDE ratings strangeness.
The first and foremost point that warrants mentioning is that not once has he ever had a tournament performance over 2400. Not even in the last list where he leaps from 2295 to 2517 in a single bound. This beckons the question to FIDE: how is that possible? How can you produce a rating well in excess of your performance?
The second is a technicality that stands out and suggests they made a mistake: a performance from August was never computed until January, and if it had been, his K-factor would have plummeted and altered the ratings calculations last month.
http://en.chessbase.com/post/january-2015-ratings-a-few-extraordinary-results
Parviz Gasimov is a 14 year old rated 2517 in a span of a few months after being rated in the 2000s what's more astonishing is the lack of coverage on this feat and it's something id never seen before. How did he do it and how is it even possible to do this ??!