Experiment · game benchmarks

Character game arena candidate report (2026-08-05)

A rating calculation is not a public rating until each underlying competition family passes its qualification contract. Retained outcome: rejected.

Outcome
rejected
Family
game benchmarks
Evidence confidence
exact
Record
infrastructure

Evidence readout

the arena retained four chess matches and seven complete 2048 pairs, while every rating remained unqualified

What the attempt taught

A rating calculation is not a public rating until each underlying competition family passes its qualification contract.

Why it stopped or stayed bounded

Chess missed minimum-match and forfeit gates, while 2048 missed minimum-pair or complete-source gates; cross-game ranking would have overstated sparse development evidence.

Method and scope

  • Experiment family: game benchmarks.
  • Record kind: infrastructure.

Disposition

Closed as a transparent candidate report with no Elo, human-equivalence, or specialist-win claim.

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Source provenance

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