Is there a software to measure a player's strength based on a game? I flicked through some papers that described how one can obtain an ELO estimate based on a game. (Basically we were comparing players' moves to the best moves suggested by a strong chess engine.
My question is, is there any online/offline resource when I can do this?
It's a matter of how much data there is. When you first get a rating in a tournament, it is a provisional rating until you reach X number of games. In the US I think you need 20 games. The provisional rating fluctuates more because of a single loss or win.
However, I recently obtained a copy of Houdini Pro 4. In the help contents is this: &quot;Unix inventor and computer chess pioneer, Ken Thompson, has developed an algorithm which allows one to create an Elo rating list out of an arbitrary set of games&quot;.
There is also a step-wise process to generate an Elo list. So, perhaps it can not be done based &quot;on a game&quot;, but maybe not too many more are needed using Ken's algorithm? Not sure, I never tried using that tool.