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Just a friendly pedantic point, it's "Elo", not "ELO". Rather than an acronym, it's a person's name; that being the rating system creator, Arpad Elo.
by tux1968 3y ago
Just a friendly pedantic point, it's "Elo", not "ELO". Rather than an acronym, it's a person's name; that being the rating system creator, Arpad Elo.
- xxs 3y agoFor years the guy calculated the FIDE ratings by hand...
- Olipro 3y agoIf you want to be fully pedantic, it's Élő, not Elo - the way in which you pronounce the former is dramatically different from the latter.
- neaden 3y agoif you want to be fully fully pedantic its Glicko-2 rating system on Lichess, while FIDE uses Élő.
- digging 3y agoRather, players have a FIDE rating within FIDE, and a unique rating in each system, because no organization follows the exact, original Elo system.
- shawabawa3 3y agoTo be correctly pedantic, it's named after Élő but it is called the Elo rating system