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5 unusual facts about Elo rating system


American Contract Bridge League

Unlike the Elo rating system developed for chess, the masterpoint system is strictly one of accumulation.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

To match players of similar skill levels for an enjoyable experience, the game uses an Elo rating system.

Dofus Arena

The majority of the fights are ladder based and grant the winner “coach items”- that serve solely for appearance, those items do not affect combat – and points, calculated by the Elo rating system.

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.

Logistic distribution

Both the United States Chess Federation and FIDE have switched their formulas for calculating chess ratings from the normal distribution to the logistic distribution; see Elo rating system.


Duško Pavasovič

On the April 2007 FIDE rating list he has an Elo rating of 2567, making him Slovenia's second highest-rated player after Alexander Beliavsky.


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