WBEC Predictions with bayeselo

by Rémi Coulom.

This page is a step-by-step guide to use bayeselo to produce predictions in the WBEC Ridderkerk computer-chess tournament.

Step-by-Step Instructions

These instructions generate predictions for the second division. It should be easy to generalize them to other divisions.

Caveats

bayeselo considers that different versions of the same program are different players. It might be possible to improve prediction accuracy by assuming that successive versions are likely to be close in strength, or that new versions are stronger than previous versions.