Re: [pbmserv] General questions about ratings

[Lyman Hurd <lhurd@yahoo.com>]

It would be good to somehow incorporate handicaps into
games that have them (e.g., go).  If I recall
correctly, a game with a handicap is currently
unrated.  I also think it would be useful to have the
concept of an explicitly unrated game for teaching
purposes.

Oh yes, and it might be helpful to adjust the
"established" number per game.  It is my understanding
that there are some games for which twenty games would
take a few years (unless, of course, played in
parallel!).

Cheers,

Lyman

--- Cameron Browne <cameronb@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> 
> > > B) Is the method the same for each type of game?
>  If not, what are the
> > > differences?
> >
> >Yes (for now).  We reserve the right to implement
> Game specific rating
> >schemes in the future (if I ever get off my duff
> and actually do it, I'll
> >add FIBS [First Internet Backgammon Server] style
> ratings to the backgammon
> >et al. engines.)
> 
> For solitaire games the ratings list may be a high
> score table.
> 
> I think Robots
> (http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/robots.html) is the
> only game 
> for which this is the case.
> 
> Cameron
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