Re: [pbmserv-dev] ratings

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

Go should be in its own category because the handicap
system throws a REAL monkey wrench into things. 
However it would be a shame not to compensate since it
is one of the best features of the game that one is
not limited to playing players of similar ability.

Lyman

--- Randall Bart <barticus@att.net> wrote:
> I will now throw a monkey wrench into this
> discussion.
> 
> I think there should be two separate rating systems:
>  One for games with 
> randomness (Hearts, Backgammon) and another for
> games without randomness 
> (Go, TwixT, Chess).  In games with randomness, the
> best player in the world 
> will occasionally lose to barely competent player. 
> OTOH, in a game without 
> randomness, this does not happen.  I am a 6 kyu at
> Go (when I'm in 
> practice) and I am not going to beat a 3 kyu or
> better without a 
> handicap.  I used to play a 3 dan.  I didn't get to
> play him for very long 
> because he went back to Japan.  He only gave me a
> handicap of 6, because he 
> thought a bigger handicap would teach me bad habits.
>  I could not beat him 
> (though I sure made him furrow his brow).
> 
> A rating system designed for backgammon might not
> work well with non-random 
> games.  Now that I think of it, even for random
> games the system might need 
> tweaking for how random the game is.  A game where a
> great player loses to 
> a mediocre player 20% of the time should be rated
> differently than a game 
> where he only loses 5% of the time.  Taking a
> backgammon rating system and 
> applying it to other games is not necessarily a good
> thing.
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