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Probability theory and measuring the true strength of chessplayers

If you wanted to measure the strength of, say, a chess player, the best way would involve knowing the true value of each position: then you could compute the frequency $W$ with which the player finds ...
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Elo Rating System Help with the Maths around number of matches

I'm creating a system that will allow people to rate images. My idea is to use an Elo Rating system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elo_rating_system) for each image and then use crowdsourcing to have ...
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