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Subject: Re: elo difference formula?

Author: Marc Boulé

Date: 07:20:43 01/03/04

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>The Arena gui, during matches, outputs an "elo difference" value on the taskbar,
>based on the current match result. What kind of formula can be used to compute
>an elo difference such as this?
>
>Regards
>Dave

Dave,

Perhaps something like this:
elo_diff = -400*log(1/win_ratio - 1)

It can be obtained by solving for "Ra-Rb" in equation (1) from [1] on page 10,
and replacing the Expected outcome by the win_ratio.

[1] M. E. Glickman. A comprehensive guide to chess ratings.
http://math.bu.edu/people/mg/research.html, 1995.

Marc Boulé



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