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A note on predictingthe results of chess championship matches
Author(s) -
Bartoszyńki Robert,
Puri Madan L.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830260109
Subject(s) - championship , world championship , computer science , artificial intelligence , statistics , econometrics , mathematics , geography , archaeology
The method of prediction of results of chess championship matches suggested by Saaty and Vargas (1980) is examined. It is shown that the claimed accuracy of this method results partly from arithmetic errors, and, in general, it is impossible to achieve this accuracy with any reasonably high confidence.