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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Gary Gifford wrote on Sat, Jan 7, 2006 04:25 PM UTC:
In my opinion, not all games should be rated. At BrainKing, for example, you can play rated or unrated games. There is a checkbox to indicate at the game invite whether it will be rated or not. Yahoo has this feature as well. Players also have indivdual ratings for each game-type played. Someone could be 1920 at Chess, 1700 for Shogi, 1800 for Xianqi, as an example. In my case, I play some games, like tournament games seriously... but others I play strictly for fun, taking only seconds to move after seeing the position... If all games were to be rated I'd have to give up the fun 'coffee-house style' games.