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Chessmetrics

Index Chessmetrics

Chessmetrics is a system for rating chess players devised by Jeff Sonas. [1]

17 relations: Chess, Chess rating system, ChessBase, Comparison of top chess players throughout history, Elo rating system, Emanuel Lasker, First-move advantage in chess, Hugo Süchting, ICGA Journal, Jeff Sonas, John L. Watson, King's Gambit, Rice Gambit, Mikhail Chigorin, St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament, The Week in Chess, Weighted arithmetic mean, World Chess Championship.

Chess

Chess is a two-player strategy board game played on a chessboard, a checkered gameboard with 64 squares arranged in an 8×8 grid.

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Chess rating system

A chess rating system is a system used in chess to calculate an estimate of the strength of the player, based on his or her performance versus other players.

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ChessBase

ChessBase GmbH is a German company that markets chess software, maintains a chess news site, and operates servers for online chess.

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Comparison of top chess players throughout history

This article presents a number of methodologies that have been suggested for the task of comparing the greatest chess players in history.

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Elo rating system

The Elo rating system is a method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess.

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Emanuel Lasker

Emanuel Lasker (December 24, 1868 – January 11, 1941) was a German chess player, mathematician, and philosopher who was World Chess Champion for 27 years (from 1894 to 1921).

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First-move advantage in chess

The first-move advantage in chess is the inherent advantage of the player (White) who makes the first move in chess.

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Hugo Süchting

Hugo Süchting (Suechting) (8 October 1874 in Brackrade – 27 December 1916 in Valluhn) was a German chess player.

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ICGA Journal

The ICGA Journal is a quarterly academic journal published by IOS Press on behalf of the International Computer Games Association.

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Jeff Sonas

Jeff Sonas is a statistical chess analyst who invented the Chessmetrics system for rating chess players, which is intended as an improvement on the Elo rating system.

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John L. Watson

John Leonard Watson (born 1951) is a chess International Master and author.

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King's Gambit, Rice Gambit

The Rice Gambit is a chess opening that arises from the King's Gambit Accepted.

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Mikhail Chigorin

Mikhail Ivanovich Chigorin (also Tchigorin; Михаи́л Ива́нович Чиго́рин; –) was a leading Russian chess player.

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St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament

The St.

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The Week in Chess

The Week in Chess (TWIC) is one of the first, if not the first, Internet-based chess news services.

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Weighted arithmetic mean

The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.

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World Chess Championship

The World Chess Championship (sometimes abbreviated as WCC) is played to determine the World Champion in chess.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessmetrics

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