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🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Jan 10, 2006 06:47 PM UTC:
I think one of the main points of discussion here should be the merits of a bell-curved scale of probabilities, which Elo uses, verses a linear scale of expected outcomes, which GCR uses. So far, my main reasons for using the latter are convenience and insufficient understanding of the Elo method.