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NomNom@feddit.uk to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Breaking chess’s rating stalemate

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Breaking chess’s rating stalemate

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NomNom@feddit.uk to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Breaking chess’s rating stalemate — Harvard Gazette
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Ranking skill can be tricky when best players draw more than they win, so a Harvard statistician invented a new method.
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    News release is almost totally uninformative. It’s about ratings guru Mark Glickman developing a modified chess rating system that predicts the likelihood of draws as well as wins. Sounds interesting I guess. I haven’t yet read the papers:

    • https://jds-online.org/journal/JDS/article/1455/info
    • https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1471082X251400474
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      What would you say about the latest proposed methods to freshen up the whole system?

      FischerChess, perhaps…?

      (I haven’t played chess for years, and was maybe ~1700 ELO at my peak, but the drama is always fascinating for some reason, lol)

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        I haven’t been following proposed rating system changes if that’s what you’re asking. Variants like Chesd960 are interesting but obviously should have their own rating pools.

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