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Is it possible to estimate my ELO without joining an organization or anything?
I would like to know if it's possible to get a rough idea of what my ELO is and how accurate those methods are.
For example, I did one of those "chess tests" and the results it gave me didn'...
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Rating system (glicko, elo, etc): is 'predict the outcome of games' the same thing as 'reduce the number of upsets'?
From Lichess page 'Chess rating systems':
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Which rating system is best?
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The purpose of rating systems is to predict the outcome of games. Therefore, they can be objectively better ...
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How does Elo rating gain scale with games played?
I only take two players starting out at 1500 Elo and have them play against each other with one player winning all games. Also I leave out any artificially introduced cut-offs.
So the winner is ...
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Probability of winning based on Elo rating [duplicate]
I already looked on several websites but I have not been able to get a clear and thorough answer to this question:
If player A has FIDE rating x and player B has FIDE rating
y, how many times, on ...
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