We have started (Nov. 1997) a table tennis league in the Electrical Engineering department. At this point it is restricted to faculty members. This is a handicap league, and otherwise we play according to USATT rules when possible...
On Wednesday Feb. 4, 1998, we had our first professional training session, with H. Markscheid, formerly the Israeli Youth champion. Arie Feuer, Roni Meir, Nahum Shimkin and Adam Shwartz participated and loved it. More to come!
Member, New Jersey Table Tennis Club (NJTTC) as of September 1996, where I play in the 1996/7 ``Tuesday League" and the 1997 Summer League.
Member number 11801, USA Table Tennis (USATT) as of October 1996.
For more information about the rating system and about Table Tennis in general go to the official site of USATT. The information there includes the rules of table tennis, details of the rating system, and the rating of all USATT members, searchable by name, by state or by rating.
| Date | Rating | Comments |
| 11, 1996 | 1457 | Initial rating, after first tournament (Oct. 12). Probably too high. |
| 1, 1997 | 1396 | After the NJTTC January Open. About right for my level, perhaps a bit high. |
| 2, 1997 | 1327 | after the NJTTC February Open. |
| 3, 1997 | 1294 | after the NJTTC March Open. |
| 4, 1997 | 1303 | after the NJ 1997 closed. Runner up U1400. |
| 5, 1997 | 1277 | after the NJTTC May Open. Winner, Doubles U3000 (With Brian Farkas). |
To understand these numbers, you may want to read about the USATT rating system, or look at some rating statistics (if you can't find some links, e.g. to to Histograms and Percentile plots, try the original source, which is where I got most of this stuff, and where you will find much more information).
Over this year I took lessons from Barry Dattel (2400), Lily Yip (USA womens' champ) (2400), and Chris Lehman (2000). I have been practicing with Jay Bailey (1700). Trying to change things surely hurt my (short term) rating, but I feel I improved considerably.
I participate in the ``Tuesday League," where I was rated at the bottom at the end of rounds 1 and 2. My performance during round 3 (so far) puts me in the middle, or a little higher.
Page created November 20, 1996 by Adam Shwartz. Did you see my home page?
Last update April 7, 1997.