The Elo rating system is seriously flawed

A two dimensional measure of chess performance is presented and it is shown to have more information and a greater power of discrimination than scalar measures because it does not rely on scoring. The scoring procedure used by scalar measures to reduce chess game outcomes from a trinomial to a binomial variable causes some chess game outcome information to be irretrievably lost.

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