Getting a Computer to Calculate your Elo Rating

Hey guys, I'm just wondering if it's possible to plug in your games into Fritz and have it tell you what your rating is, or if there is such a thing.

Can you plug your games into another program and have it tell you your elo?

who cares about the games

its the results that gives you a rating, not the games

chessmaster 10th edition allows you to play against computer opponents in rated games or tournaments and it keeps track of your rating. i don't think you can input your games and have it give you a rating though.

there is an online program that can calculate your elo rating after each game. it is called Elo Rater (i can't remember where i got it originally, sorry.)

I want to know how they did this:

http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3455

anonymous131, to duplicate this you could download Crafty (a free, open-source engine) and use it to evaluate each position. Say White is up one pawn (+1.00), then hangs a piece (-2.00). The move would be a 3.00 error. Do this for every move of every game of a player and you can compute an average error per move.

Simpler, if you want to know such stats for yourself, would be to buy Chessmaster 10/11, at least as strong as Crafty, estimates your rating, and reports your avg error/game. It also breaks that down into total error vs. relevant error. Eg, when you're a queen up it's often not a bad thing to drop a pawn to force simplifications into a won endgame.

(I don't track such statistics for myself. I analyze my games so I know exactly what sorts of errors I am making and what I need to work on.)

you may try http://chesszen.com

I wonder how good this calculator is though. Has anybody compared his real fide rating to chessgames analysis result?