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Elo Chess Rating System Topped By Proposed Replacements
databuff writes "About six weeks ago, Slashdot reported a competition to find a chess rating algorithm that performed better than the official Elo rating system. The competition has just reached the halfway mark and the best entries have outperformed Elo by over 8 per cent. The leader is a Portuguese physicist, followed by an Israeli mathematician and then a pair of American computer scientists."
Castle this.
Yes, I agree. We should also fight amongst professions because we simply do not have enough to fight about.
Long live Physicists and they physicisteries!
Whoah there partner, we don't want a full-scale fight between all professions - some of those guys are pretty buff. Pick off the mathematicians and physicists first because the law of the playground must be respected - the small, weak, bifocaled, or curiously gifted with numbers should be taken down first. Then nap time.
A friend called my on my telephone line and told me out of the blue that the Elo rating system had been bested. I was so stunned I almost turned to stone. I said, "Dude, don't bring me down!". But the news slowly sunk in, and now I can't get it out of my head. But I'll tell you what, the jury is still out. I think there's gonna be a showdown, and then Elo will be back on top.
Not any more.
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So, how did they rank the entries?
sic transit gloria mundi
No, Portrugal. Between Spairn and the Atlantirc.
Elo, elo, elo, what's going on 'ere then?
(He's a part time policeman as well)
A Portugese physicist, an Israeli mathematician and two American programmers walk into the bar.
The bartender says:
Sorry lads, read the sign: "Cheques are NOT accepted."
*rim-shot*