References

[B]       J. D. Beasely,  The Mathematics of Games, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1989. 

[D]      N.J. Divinsky, The Chess Encyclopedia, Facts on File, New York, 1990.
                            
[E1]     A. E. Elo,  The Rating of Chessplayers, Past and Present, Arco, New York, 1978.

[E2]          -         "The International Chess Federation Rating System," Chess, Sutton-Coldfield, July, August, October, 1973.

[E3]          -           "F.I.D.E. Information:  The Rating System in National Applications (A Supplement to the FIDE Presentation of 1970)" 
                             
                                                      
[G]       M. Gardner, The Colossal Book of Mathematics, W. W. Norton, New York, 2001.
                                                         

[GJ]     M.  R. Garey and D. S. Johnson,  Computers and Intractability:  A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness, Freeman, New York, 1967.

[HW]   D. Hooper and K. Whyld, The Oxford Companion to Chess, 2nd Edition, Oxford University Press, 1992

[J]        R. C. Jones, Evaluating Competitive Performance with Rankings and Ratings, Master of Science Thesis, University of Rhode Island, 1994

[V]       R. v. Mises, Probability, Statistics and Truth, 2nd Revised English Edition, Dover Publications, New York 1957.