For those interested in chess and statistics, about seven weeks ago, Kaggle launched a competition to find a chess rating algorithm that performs better than the official Elo rating system. The competition has just reached the halfway mark and the best entries have outperformed Elo by ~8 per cent. The leader is a Portuguese physicist, followed by an Israeli mathematician and then a pair of American computer scientists. Is the fact that Elo has been comprehensively outperformed a sign that it is due for an upgrade?
More details on the Kaggle blog:
http://kaggle.com/blog/2010/09/21/elo-vs-the-rest-of-the-world-at-the-halfway-mark/
Anthony Goldbloom
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