Sonas: Overall review of the FIDE rating system

Statistician Jeff Sonas has done comprehensive work on the chess rating system, showing us how optimizing various factors and parameters can yield more (or less) accurate values. Now he embarks on another line of research: slicing the actual historical data into various views and visualizing the data from those different perspectives. Here's <a href="[Post:view_link]">part one of a series of articles.</a>

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