Elo Chess Rating System Topped By Proposed Replacements

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databuff writes "About six weeks ago, Slashdot reported a competition to find a chess rating algorithm that performed better than the official Elo rating system. The competition has just reached the halfway mark and the best entries have outperformed Elo by over 8 per cent. The leader is a Portrugese physicist, followed by an Israeli mathematician and then a pair of American computer scientists."http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F10%2F09%2F22%2F014255%2FElo-Chess-Rating-System-Topped-By-Proposed-Replacements) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=Elo+Chess+Rating+System+Topped+By+Prop osed+Replacements%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FcBIqv8)
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