Have you ever gained a top on a board but when you look at your score on that board you find
you've a point less than you expected.
When manual scoring was the only way to score events, the advice to apply an average to a
particular pair was to award them the average (half a top) but they then tied with every other pair playing the board. This reduced the pair
who originally had a top by 1mp and improved the bottom score by 1 mp too. Neuberg(a French mathematician) scoring tries to give every board
equal weight in the overall result. It restores your missing top to something much closer to what you expected. It results in factored mps calculated
to 2 decimal places on boards which have not been played the expected number of times. The method is used in all the best professional scoring
programs and is the one advocated by the EBU. Click
here to see Max Bavin's assessment.
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