| General Chess Discussion - Why does the Lichess rating-distribution have peaks around multiples of 100? Also a subjective note: I felt like after breaking a century opponents tend to get easier for the next 30-points. Anyone else have that feeling? | |
| General Chess Discussion - Why does the Lichess rating-distribution have peaks around multiples of 100? @ungewichtet said in #5: > It is because 100 has 10 times the meaning of 10. If you go for some meaningful result (in that sense), even subconciously, you stop there rather than anywhere. Shouldn't th… | |
| General Chess Discussion - Why does the Lichess rating-distribution have peaks around multiples of 100? @TheSteelyCold said in #2: > I always assumed it was because people prefer round numbers, and will fight toward that rating and then be 'done for the day', that kind of mentality. I would be curious t… | |
| General Chess Discussion - Why does the Lichess rating-distribution have peaks around multiples of 100? If you look at rating distributions, they all have more or less pronounced peaks at the whole hundreds. You tend to get more people with 1500 then 1475 or 1525, etc. Why is that? Shouldn't be due to t… | |
| General Chess Discussion - High level descriptiion of the matchmaking algorithm OK, I dived into the code a bit more. Here's my understanding: Arena matchmaking computes a minimum weight matching in the sense of graph theory.¹ > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_(graph_theor… | |
| General Chess Discussion - High level descriptiion of the matchmaking algorithm > From the page that appears before an arena begins: Well I guess I'm looking for something a bit more detailed, but not quite as detailed as the code ;-). | |
| General Chess Discussion - High level descriptiion of the matchmaking algorithm Seems like I can't just delete the thread and reopen, so I guess it's better to leave it instead of having two instances? But agreed and no hard feelings if an admin removes this ;-). | |
| General Chess Discussion - High level descriptiion of the matchmaking algorithm Can some one please give a high level description of how the (arena) matchmaking works? I understand it's running this code, but I struggle to understand all the details that go into it. https://githu… |