Beating Elo

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  • Jeffrey S. Pennington
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where EA and EB are the expected outcomes for players A and B, and RA and RB are their ratings. Here we designate a win by 1, a loss by 0, and a draw by 0.5. The spread of the ratings is set by Λ, which for chess ratings is usually taken to be Λ = 400/ log(10) = 173.72. The result of each game updates each player’s rating according to an update rule. The update rule is usually based on the difference between the actual outcome and the expected outcome,

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تاریخ انتشار 2010