What's difference?
Elo is a rating system. You can use it interchangeably as it is now colloquially used for rating in general but technically Elo is a specific system and I think lichess uses Glicko instead of Elo.
Elo is the surname of the rating system's inventor.
Yes ELO and Glicko-2 work differently but still almost everyone (myself included) uses "Elo" as a synonym for "rating"
the difference is one agitates mr pushwood and the other is just a number.
@Cedur216 said in #5:
> but still almost everyone (myself included) uses "Elo" as a synonym for "rating"
I wonder if this is also true for those who belong to a federation that uses a different algorithm.
@sm2019 said in #1:
> What's difference?
Elo is a sub-set of rating, itself being the umbrella term for player hierarchy designation.
Well, the only reason I get so pedantic about this stuff is that Elo/FIDE is generally hundreds of points beyond online ratings. So which one is the average OP talking about when they say they want to get to 2000 "Elo"? It makes a BIG difference. ;)
It’s the Ego number actually.
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