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Elo Chess Rating System Topped By Proposed Replacements

Posted by timothy on from the how-'bout-a-good-scrabble-rating-system dept.

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."

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  1. Re:what now? by cappp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    To be fair that owning represents a difference of 0.000629 in the RMSE between the two of them - hardly the sound thrashing those snooty mathematicians rightly deserve.