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Competition to find a new chess rating system
- wazoox 16y agoWell, ELO has been proved useful in various domains (it's used to evaluate product quality in the agroalimentary industry for instance), and compared to various rating systems in different sports. So you can't actually say that "it has never really been demonstrated that Elo ratings are more accurate than other approaches would be."
- shadowfox 16y agoDont know. It is useful certainly. But is it more accurate than other approaches for this problem?
- snippyhollow 16y agoThis one is already way better [PDF, paper] http://tiny.cc/trueskill http://tiny.cc/trueskill It is now used for XBox Live matchmaking http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trueskill/ http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/trueskill/
- ovi256 16y agoThere's a downside to using such a system for videogames: it is tiring to constantly have perfectly balanced matches, where you must do your utmost to win. I've seen comments about this countless times from Starcraft II players for example.
- adamilardi 16y agoThe prizes are terrible
- sireat 16y agoWhile prizes are terrible financially speaking, that signed DVD is about as nice a prize as one of the checks from Knuth. Unfortunately, it looks like the competition will be ridiculously tough since good old ELO has been pushed down about 30 spots. Also, it seems the improvements are not going to be overly dramatic after the first rush. Why? Because chess games between human players have some randomness inherent in them.