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Game Courier Ratings. Calculates ratings for players from Game Courier logs. Experimental.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Joe Joyce wrote on Mon, Jan 16, 2006 05:18 AM UTC:

What happens when a game you've won, and it says 'You have won' in the
game log, doesn't show up in the calculations, even though you can call
it up by name from the game logs with your password, and it shows as a win
when you list all your games? The game in question is
Omega Chess oncljan-joejoyce-2005-96-245
Admittedly, it's not a good win, but it balances out one of the
almost-won games where my opponent disappeared just before the end. (I see
the value of timed games now.) Actually, I hadn't brought it up before
because it is such a poor win that I didn't feel I deserve it, but I
realized that if it was included, I just might get up to 1500 briefly,
before I lose to Carlos, David, Gary..., and that'd be a kick for someone
who's only been playing a year or so after, depending on how you wish to
count time off, 30-40 years.  
I will say the ratings have brought out everyone's competitive spirits.
As for me, I'll happily carry a general rating that takes in all my
games: playtests, coffee-house, and tournament; but, since people are
asking for so many things, I'd like to add one more. Would it be possible
or practical to allow people to choose one or more subsets of games for a
specific rating. For example, I am currently playing several variants of
shatranj now, one of which is 'grand shatranj'. Could I be allowed to
put any number of game names into a 'Rate these games only' field, so I
could get a combined rating for say 6 shatranj variants plus Grand Chess?
And then another for the 'big board' games, and so on?