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A comparative review of skill assessment: Performance, Prediction and profiling

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  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

The assessment of chess players is both an increasingly attractive opportunity and an unfortunate necessity. The chess community needs to limit potential reputational damage by inhibiting cheating and unjustified accusations of cheating: there has been a recent rise in both. A number of counter-intuitive discoveries have been made by benchmarking the intrinsic merit of players’ moves: these call for further investigation. Is Capablanca actually, objectively the most accurate World Champion? Has ELO rating inflation not taken place? Stimulated by FIDE/ACP, we revisit the fundamentals of the subject to advance a framework suitable for improved standards of computational experiment and more precise results. Other games and domains look to chess as demonstrator of good practice, including the rating of professionals making high-value decisions under pressure, personnel evaluation by Multichoice Assessment and the organization of crowd-sourcing in citizen science projects. The ‘3P’ themes of performance, prediction and profiling pervade all these domains.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Computer Games - 14th International Conference, ACG 2015, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsAske Plaat, Jaap van den Herik, Walter Kosters
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages135-146
Number of pages12
ISBN (Print)9783319279916
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015
Event14th International Conference on Advances in Computer Games, ACG 2015 - Leiden, Netherlands
Duration: Jul 1 2015Jul 3 2015

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9525
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th International Conference on Advances in Computer Games, ACG 2015
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityLeiden
Period07/1/1507/3/15

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