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"Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do."
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Liz Smith
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 If you've
visited my interests section, you know I love a good chess game! A group of my
friends often play; at first a wipe board held the stats, but I thought this
would make an interesting weekend project. While the site is purposefully a
small project -- the core functionality is to maintain the stats of each game
and demonstrates how a distributed web application is easy to implement and
offers rich potential.
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 The site
presents more than just stats. The complete history view recaps all the games,
and includes icons for expected outcomes and upsets. From the user's
perspective, all that needs to be done is enter the names of the players and
indicate the winner -- following official U.S. Chess formulas, ratings are
calculated based on performance.
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 These formulas
are important because a Win/Loss record generally holds no value in Chess --
rather, it is statistical performance based on the rating of the opponents.
Typically this type of information is too difficult to compute by hand because
the formulas change based on the number of games played, and are dynamic based
on opponent ratings -- especially early in a player's "career."
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Downloads |
| Source code not available at this time.
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