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For example, you play a few rounds in a casual board game night with your friends, winning three rounds, losing one round, and drawing two rounds. Based off your gut feelings, you think you did pretty well. Your skill level have gone up. But based on the raw numbers alone, you may end up having … Read more

And so that’s where we end up with an unruly last round in the league. Three player is tied for match points and all three are holding their breaths as they wait for someone to untangle the knot. A call goes into tournament director. He opens the rule book. It’s fat. And it doesn’t say … Read more

When we talk about tension in a chess tournament, usually that tension isn’t found in the games of the final round. That tension comes after two players has finished with same score and the tournament organizers must break the deadlock with a calculator. One of the most common methods of breaking a deadlock like this … Read more

Beyond perfect play, a perfect tournament means perfect planning. And by planning I don’t mean just packing snacks and bringing hand sanitizer, I mean nailing down every detail of logistics. Even if you play like a boss, failing to consider things like how many games you need to win or how many foreign player are … Read more

What drives a player’s ELO is their score percentage and most people concentrate only on their ELO number. Unless you understand performance rating you might play bullet chess for years and never move your rating because you don’t know what to improve. The calculator above does the math for you. Understanding what those inputs are … Read more

The situation is familiar on those casual league nights, you have the wins and losses noted down, but then someone mention a bonus point or a forfeit and your spreadsheet gets muddled. That’s where points percentage comes in. The result is an honest single number that eliminates the noise associated with uneven schedules. The number … Read more

The board’s in front of you. Your opponent sits opposite you. You look around and try to figure out if you will win or lose. Is it luck? Is it skill? Is it nerve? It is a combination of all three. There’s something going on beneath the surface: a quiet mathematics. It converts our human … Read more