chess statistics scientific article

[whereagles]

Anyone heard of this article?

http://www.chessanalysis.ee/Quality%20o ... suring.pdf

Not sure if this was published in a journal, but seems interesting (if not debatable lol)

[nimh]

I've already posted it here, and, no, it was never intended to be published anywhere. The methodology of such analyses is still raw and a lot of improvement is needed.

[whereagles]

Thanks. Cheers

[CRoberson]

I found several points interesting. Particularly the rating deflation ones. Based on the math, a person rating 2000 in the year 2016 has the knowledge
to achieve 2378 in the year1916. Oh, if we had a time machine to test that.

I am not happy with the opponent oriented ratings systems due to that and other types of effects.

It seems to me static entities could be used to improve these issues. If we had programs that would play at a given level even when used on varied HW,
we could use such programs to periodically test people to reduce those effects. Of course, we could use static programs on static HW such as
dedicated Chess systems like Fidelity, Mephisto, SciSys, ...

For programs, it could be programs with set search depths and with Qsearch turned on or off. So, 20 levels are possible with just up to 10 search plies.

[MikeB]

I found several points interesting. Particularly the rating deflation ones. Based on the math, a person rating 2000 in the year 2016 has the knowledge
to achieve 2378 in the year1916. Oh, if we had a time machine to test that.
...

There is no need to test . Im all aspects of life, people get better what at what we do. Whether it's in sports, academia or chess - whatever. The exception is for the things that we no longer do on regular basis- take hunting for example.

If you take any professional sports star and put him in the 1916 league - he would be the super super star. Chess is no different, Whether it is 2378 or some other number , I have no clue, but I am certain that directionally that it would be a true statement.

[yanquis1972]

i cannot think of a more boring test, nor a bigger waste of a time machine, than seeing if an barely-rated expert would be a non-rated, non grandmaster level, but more dominant expert 100 years ago -- when chess was really in its adolescence, & true, organized professional chess its infancy...the only interesting thing i can even imagine is that he'd squeak into some games against masters of the day & get blown off the board in some games that may be recited today...

specialization -- people paid a living to eat, sleep, & breath one single thing, for years, or their entire life -- will naturally lead to advances in ability. i dont find that remotely interesting, but the study itself seems very cool.

i do find it extremely hard to believe rybka 3 on a quad i7 @ 65 seconds/move is only 2930 elo (FIDE 2008, at that!)...but the author did say he was just surmising.