Someone once explained it to me as the chessic equivalent of Einstein's
cosmological constant.

"DDEckerslyke" wrote in message
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I'd like to have a go at working out the ratings of British GM Luke
McShane
who has afaics played a lot of games recently and seems to be performing
very well. Anyway I Goooooogled for an online ratings calculator but then
I
came up against K factor. Can anyone here explain K factor to me and what
values I should enter for a game between two GMs or a GM and an IM?

cheers

dd