Mark Glickman

Mark Glickman, statistician and creator of the Glicko Rating system. See http://www.glicko.net/

Some of his Publications

• A Comprehensive Guide to Chess Ratings (1995)
• Rating the chess rating system (1999)
• Parameter estimation in large dynamic paired comparison experiments (1999)
• Dynamic paired comparison models with stochastic variances (2001)
• Adaptive paired comparison design (2005)
• Sex differences in intellectual performance: Analysis of a large cohort of competitive chess players (2006)
  • We conclude that the greater number of men at the highest levels in chess can be explained by the greater number of boys who enter chess at the lowest levels
• Bayesian locally-optimal design of knockout tournaments (20017) presents two approaches:
  1. maximize the probability that the best player will advance to the next round (goal focused on a single player)
  2. maximize the expected log-probability of game outcomes over all possible sets of pairings (goal focused on all players)

Interview

• United States Chess Federation interview