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ELO for a multiplayer game

Posted By: Daniel Murphy
Date: Friday, 5 October 2012, at 5:08 p.m.

In Response To: ELO for a multiplayer game (Timothy Chow)

Sometimes a strange magic seems to settle on a train of posts, Tim. You got me running, going out of my mind. Don't bring me down! No, no, no ... anyway, Mr. Merrigan seems to be saying that a misacronymed ELO does not encourage anyone to think that the rating system he invented was actually invented by the Electric Light Orchestra.

Elo is sometimes miswritten "ELO" because Mr. Elo was born with a three-letter last name that looks like an acronym in many languages and which is rare outside of Hungary and Finland (and perhaps rare in those countries too, I don't know). Excuse me - since he was Hungarian, Élő would have been his three-letter first name.

ÉLŐ Árpád Imre (Egyházaskesző, 1903. aug. 25. – Brookfield, USA, 1992. nov. 5.) sakkozó, fizikus, üzletember. 1913-ban szüleivel kivándorolt az USA-ba, ahol 1926 után egyetemi tanárként dolgozott. Az Amerikai Sakkszövetséget 1939-ben alapította meg. 1959-ben kidolgozta, a sakkozók játékerejét kifejező, un Élő-pontszámokat, amelyeket a Nemzetközi Sakkszövetség 1970-től hivatalosan is elfogad és alkalmaz.

ˇViva Arpadelo!

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