During the Covid pandemic we've all got very used to self-testing, and here's a chess-related example, reported on Chessbase today, that's definitely more fun than sticking a swab up your nose
By completing a single test of 76 chess positions (which should take at least half an hour), you can generate an estimate of your playing strength thanks to the Elometer, as developed by researchers at the Institute of Experimental Psychology, Dusseldorf University. So if you've got an ELO already you can check it out against the computer generated estimate, while if you haven't, you can save yourself the trouble of taking out ECF Gold Membership and playing a sufficient number of FIDE rated games to actually get yourself one!
I'd be very interested to see how everyone else gets on with this test. In my case it was relatively accurate, but rather worryingly thought I was slightly over-rated. So my current ELO of 2121 compared to the Elometer estimate of 2059.
Can anyone who takes the test, please post their ELO estimate in the comments section of this post, so we can all see how accurate we think it is!
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