Elo rating

English Etymology en Hungarian-American physics professor Arpad Elo = 1903 1992, who invented the metric. Noun A metric indicating the relative skill level of a player in zero-sum games such as chess. en Elo en Jens Krause; Richard James; et al. Animal Social Networks 2015 Oxford University Press https://books.google.com/books?id=cuAUDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA65&dq=%22Elo+rating%22&hl=&cd=9&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Elo%20rating%22&f=false 978-0-19-967904-1 65 Thus, for analyses such as Elo rating, where the order in which contests occurs matters, one must resort to creating a set of randomly shuffled contest sequences to be able to assess the effects of temporal order. en Michael Palmer; Daniel Palmer The First Family 2018 St. Martin's Publishing Group https://books.google.com/books?id=vh83DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA32&dq=%22Elo+rating%22&hl=&cd=8&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Elo%20rating%22&f=false 978-1-250-10744-2 32 “You're pretty good at this game,” Lee said.¶ “Got an Elo rating over twenty-six hundred.”¶ “Elo? What's that?”¶ “The FIDE uses it to rank players.”¶ “FIDE?”¶ “Fédération Internationale des Échecs,” Cam said, speaking in an exaggerated French accent. en Chess Ranking System: A Complete Guide Square Off https://squareoffnow.com/blog/chess-ranking-system/ 2022-08-10 In layman’s terms, any player with a higher Elo rating will have a better chance of winning a game of chess against an opponent with a lower Elo rating. https://web.archive.org/web/20221124034042/https://squareoffnow.com/blog/chess-ranking-system/ Further reading Elo rating system en Chess