Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Inducing your opponent to make mistakes

It's already been done to compare chess players by amount of mistakes they make using a computer as a (questionable) gold standard.

Now that we have a baseline level of mistakes for each player, we can next ask, how many additional or fewer mistakes does a player induce in his or her opponent compared to the opponent's baseline, averaged over all opponents of a player?

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