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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Tony Quintanilla wrote on Sat, Jan 7, 2006 05:00 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Very nice. Interesting. I may also help to pair players, finding fair
partners and also more challenging ones. Of course, the wide variety of
variants makes this rating less 'firm' than chess ratings. 

I think that Gary's suggestion to allow a game to be rated or not would
be a nice addition. This could be a choice made at the start of the game,
allong with time controls, etc. This would also allow some players to
develop rated 'niches', such as Shogi, or Shatranj-variants, while
playing other games 'just for fun.' Some may just want to be rated
generalists. Others may not want to be rated at all.