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Re:The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997) by reificator on Sunday January 24, 2021 @11:55PM (#25899385)
> Just look at chess history and play. the chess abilities of humans has vastly increased and you can thank computers for 95% of that. ELO rankings is a modern invention to play highly competitive games from literally any place in the world.

Elo rankings (not ELO) was first adopted in 1960, which while technically overlapping with computing's timeframe, the two are unrelated. Certainly Elo was not invented to play online chess or for the sake of computer-aided chess by any stretch.

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Re:The computer revolution hasn’t happened yet (1997) by Out_of_Characte on Monday January 25, 2021 @02:10PM (#25907330)
Yeah bit of misphrasing. Point being is that fair rating systems and our computer's ability to keep track of everything has given rise to highly competitive games and very efficient progression.
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