Chess players have official chess ELO ratings. An ELO rating is a system where you gain a relative number of points based on the difference between your ELO and your opponents. For example, if you ...

The Elo (chess ranking estimate) of the best chess programs is about 3700 which is about 900 points beyond the 2881 maximum of Magnus Carlsen. This means Magnus might be able to get a draw in one out ...

Sagarin says the name of his BCS ranking honors Arpad Elo, a professor at Marquette who developed a method of rating chess players that was adopted by FIDE, the international chess federation, in ...

Chess.com, which offers its own Elo ratings for players, doesn’t even include classical ratings, only ratings for rapid and blitz. Some players, including Carlsen, have advocated elevating the ...

If the high-ranking player beats the low-ranking player, then her ELO score will only go up a small amount, to reflect the suspected ease of the matchup and suggest more challenging opponents in ...

Magnus Carlsen won the game without losing a single piece, while ChatGPT lost all its pawns, screenshots the Norwegian ...