A New Approach in the Evaluation of Team Chess Championships Rankings

Jeremic Veljko Milojko and Radojicic Zoran
Additional contact information
Jeremic Veljko Milojko: University of Belgrade
Radojicic Zoran: University of Belgrade

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports, 2010, vol. 6, issue 3, 11

Abstract: Classification method in a team chess championship has long been an issue of great concern. In quest of the "golden standard," Chess Federation officials applied many different ranking methods. As part of the "improvements," significant changes were introduced at the 2009 Serbia Team Chess Championship. In this paper, we will examine results of the 2008 and 2009 tournament by applying the statistical ranking method. Our aim was to compare classification in these two tournaments and for the first time quantitatively evaluate the rankings method in team chess championships. Some significant results were obtained during the process and we see them useful for the quality evaluation procedure of the classification methods. The correlation between 2008 Serbia Team Chess Championship ranking and the ranking based on the I-distance method was very significant with r=0.9639 and p

Keywords: chess; team competitions; classification; ranking methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2202/1559-0410.1257 (text/html)
For access to full text, subscription to the journal or payment for the individual article is required.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bpj:jqsprt:v:6:y:2010:i:3:n:7

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/jqas/html

DOI: 10.2202/1559-0410.1257

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports is currently edited by Mark Glickman

More articles in Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().