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(Please Lichess, this is not ELO)
by KingOfCoders 3y ago
(Please Lichess, this is not ELO)
- smatija 3y agoThis is, if I see correctly, not official Lichess blog, but personal blog of marcusbuffett (hosted on lichess). Lichess offers personal blogs for some months now.
- shawabawa3 3y agoWhat does this mean?
- nebulous1 3y agolichess uses glicko 2
- czx4f4bd 3y agoQuoting Wikipedia because I'm lazy: > The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. It is named after its creator Arpad Elo, a Hungarian-American physics professor. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system There are other rating systems that are similar, but people commonly call any similar rating system "Elo". In this case, Lichess uses https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glicko_rating_system, so the GP is arguing against calling it "Elo". I think it's kind of a pedantic point given that more people will understand "Elo" than "glicko-2", but I suppose "rating" would be clearer than either term. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_rating_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_rating_system
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- jackmott42 3y agoOP is making an unimportant pedantic point.
- nebulous1 3y agoHonestly "Elo" is commonly used to denote most Elo-like systems. I don't think it's confusing here. Also, it's "Elo" not "ELO".
- KingOfCoders 3y ago"The Elo system was invented as an improved chess-rating system over the previously used Harkness system" - I can use a spoon to repair my coffee machine. It still wasn't invented for that.
- evandale 3y agoOne of my favourite things on the internet is when someone tries to make a pedantic correction and someone else comes along with something that's even more pedantic. Thanks for giving me a good start to the morning!