I saw a tiktok about some girl who was the daughter of two grand masters. Went deep into a rabbit hole of the world of Chess but I still cannot for the life of me understand this point system ?
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Elo is a ranking system. It assigns a points score to every player, and based on wins/losses and the scores of your opponents, your score goes up and down by some amount based on statistical calculations. It isn’t even a very difficult system, and gives adequate results in estimating the relative strength of players as long as they have played a sufficient number of times for their Elo score to approach their real skill level.
Elo is far from perfect though, and there are actually better, similar systems out there, with the biggest advantage of Elo over those ones being its relative simplicity. Both Glicko 2 and Microsoft’s Trueskill are far better ranking systems based on statistics than Elo.
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