The possible results in chess

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he possible chess results are:

There are three possible results:
White wins, Black wins, or draft.

Those are some stats of chess games results in the past:

	White wins	Draw	Black wins
1851 – 1878	45,52%	14,07%	40,41%
1881 – 1914	36,89%	31,76%	31,35%
1919 – 1932	36,98%	36,98%	26,04%
2009	34,7%	41,3%	24%
2010	38,96%	26,41%	34,63%
2013	37,37%	35,22%	27,42%

The chess results are the main influent of a player ranking which is determinated by players ratings.

Ratings generally go up for a win and down for a loss;

In general, once you have established a rating, it is harder to increase your rating by 100 points from 2000 than it is to increase it by 100 points from 100. That does depend on your skill level: if you have a knack for chess, you may never have a rating in the low 1000s.

Elo system

The formula for calculating your Elo rating is this:

new rating = old rating + K×(W-We), where K=10, W=actual score, and We=expected score
In tournament play, the difference in ratings between you and each of your opponents is calculated first. From this, an expected score against each opponent is derived from a table. The sum of those expected scores is compared to your actual score, and thus your new score is calculated.

ECF system

As of 2009, a player’s grade is calculated by taking the opponent’s grade and adding 50 points for a win, subtracting 50 points for a loss, and taking the opponent’s grade as it stands for a draw. For grading purposes it is assumed that the opponent’s grade is never more than 40 points above or below one’s own. An ECF grade can be approximated to an Elo rating by multiplying by 8 and adding 600*.
For a further explanation, per the ECF website:

In the interval between the end of a grading period and publication of the new grades, the “current” grade for calculation purposes is the new, as yet unpublished, grade.

The Grade is calculated by dividing the total number of points scored by the number of games played. If there are at least 30 games in the current period, then the Grade is based on these games alone. If there are not, results are brought forward from the previous periods as required (see ‘Category’ above). In no case does calculation go back more than 36 months.

Results are brought forward in two different ways, depending whether the Grade is Rapid or Standard. With Rapidplay, any games brought forward from a previous period will be the most recent games in that period. This is possible because the dates of Rapid games are (almost) always known. With Standardplay, unfortunately, this is not the case. So, instead, the required number of (notional) games is brought forward at the average score for the period.
For ungraded players, a grade is estimated this way:

A Rapid Grade, where available, will be used in default of a Standard Grade; and vice versa. If the player has no Grade at all, a starting grade is calculated as follows.

Stage 1 is to calculate a ‘grade’ for each ungraded player on his games against graded opponents. The 40-point rule is not used. If all his opponents are graded, it stops there and the result will be used as his starting grade.

Stage 2 brings in games between the ungraded players. Once again the 40-point rule is not used. The players are ‘graded’ on all their games, using as starting grades the figures obtained from Stage 1.

The resulting ‘grades’ will not be very accurate. So they are fed in again as new starting grades, and Stage 2 is repeated. This continues, with increasing accuracy each time, until the figures (more or less) stop changing. The starting grades can then be considered accurate.

These starting grades are then used in the grading proper.
Glicko system

The Glicko system is an improvement on the Elo system, introducing a concept called Ratings Deviation.

The rating system itself is beyond the ability of this site to display; without the add-in that Math.SE has, the formulas would be nearly impossible to follow.

The RD measures the accuracy of a player’s rating. For example, a player with a rating of 1500 and an RD of 50 has a real strength between 1400 and 1600 with 95% confidence. Twice the RD is added and subtracted from their rating to calculate this range. After a game, the amount the rating changes depends on the RD: the change is smaller when the player’s RD is low (since their rating is already considered accurate), and also when their opponent’s RD is high (since the opponent’s true rating is not well known, so little information is being gained). The RD itself decreases after playing a game, but it will increase slowly over time of inactivity.
USCF Correspondence

The USCF used a linear approximation of the Elo method for calculating correspondence chess methods … this is how it works now.

Established players

To calculate a new rating after a game, use the following formula:

Rn = Ro + .04(ED) +/- 16

This means that a new rating (Rn) is determined by taking the old rating (Ro), adding or subtracting 4 percent of the difference in ratings between opponents (.04(ED)), and adding or subtracting 16 points.

Rating differences that exceed 350 points are figured as 350 points.
For players rated 2100-2399, the formula Rn = Ro + .03(ED) +/- 12 is used.
For players rated 2400 and above, the formula Rn = Ro + .02(ED) +/- 8 is used.
Provisional players

During your first 25 games as a correspondence chess player, your rating is calculated as the average of your game results.

Each game result is as follows:

400 points plus the opponent’s rating for a win, unless the opponent’s rating is more than 400 points less than yours.
The opponent’s rating minus 400 points for a loss, unless the opponent’s rating is more than 400 points greater than yours.
The opponent’s rating for a draw, regardless of the difference in rating.
Your current rating in all other cases.
For your first result, because you do not yet have a rating, the 400-point differences do not apply: you get the opponent’s rating for a draw, +400 for a win, -400 for a loss. If your opponent also doesn’t have a rating, then it’s 1700 for the winner and 1300 for the loser, or 1500 for both if you draw.