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Ivanchuk wins Capablanca

Vassily Ivanchuk has won the Capablanca Memorial, for the fourth time – something no other player has yet achieved. Second was Ian Nepomniachtchi, followed by Cuba's Leinier Dominguez and Nigel Short.

On chess ratings

Alberto,

I thought that you and the chess community might find this interesting. My project, Kaggle, hosted a World Cup forecasting competition for statisticians. The variable that appeared most often in participants' statistical models was the Elo rating (and not betting prices of the official FIFA ranking).

Anthony