Our friends from ChessToday.net have just pointed out something interesting. Here is the comment from GM Golubev: New FIDE Ratingsby GM Mikhail Golubev On the 30th December FIDE published new ratings. It is hard to believe, but Nanjing (Category...
Chess rating system for other sports?
Form means nothingBy Daniel Finkelstein Special CorrespondentApril 06, 2008YOUR team has lost. Again. It’s a disaster. Or is it? When you lose games, you lose points. That much is clear. But how seriously should you take defeat and how...
The ELO effect
Chess by Bill CornwallMarch 30, 2008 What are ratings? I often refer to the ratings players have, but I have seldom explained exactly what ratings are. A “rating” in chess is a numerical value derived from using a mathematical...