Repeating games with switched colors reduces Elo error. All matches should be done like this

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Re: Repeating games with switched colors reduces Elo error. All matches should be done like this

Post by jp »

On the Chess Programming wiki:
However one may show that under reasonable elo models the trinomial model is not correct in case games are played in pairs with reversed colors ...
Is this detailed somewhere? What are those "reasonable elo models"?