Hi all,
In Lichess, we have 3 rating categories based on the time control, but they all very short:
0--Bullet--3--Blitz--8--Classical--300
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But what if I want to play longer time controls? There is no category for that. Of course, I can play 2 hour games and it will account for my classical rating, but then if I participate in a 10+0 tournament then this rating will quickly flush away, so there is no point in playing both 10+0 and 120+0.
It’s evident that our categories are too shortly divided when we compare to other chess clubs:
FIDE:
0--Blitz--10--Rapid--60--Standard-->
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USCF:
5--Blitz--10--Rapid--30-60--Standard-->
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PS: games between 30 and 60 min affect both the rapid and standard ratings
Chess Tempo:
0--Bullet--3--Blitz--15--Rapid--60--Long-->
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ICC (chessclub.com), FICS (freechess.org) and Playchess:
0--Bullet--3--Blitz--15--Standard-->
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Thus I’m suggesting the creation of a forth category. In my humble opinion, the division of ChessTempo seems the best from all above. But we don’t to move the 8 min division, and it would be so nice to have a Hyperbullet category, were we have so much activity, so maybe we should innovate with more categories. Why not? After all, Lichess is the #1 in innovation. So it could be like this:
0--H.B.--1--Bullet--3--Blitz--8--Rapid--25--Standard--90--Classical--300
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How about the migration of current ratings to this system? How can we split the rating of one category into two or three? Technically it’s not a problem. Since Lichess has the full history of games from everyone, developers can create a one-time process that chronologically re-calculates the ratings of everyone, this time divided into corresponding categories. By the end, Blitz rating will be the only one to remain unchanged. Other ratings will get split. Each player will see both increases and decreases in his ratings.
Votes?
As an experiment, Lichess could perform such calculation for everyone (just an estimate, no real rating change) and then send out a voting pool for the addition of new categories. Users who respond to the first question will be granted access to their calculated new rating, and then will be questioned again “Did you like your rating change estimates?”.
Variants? For the variants, we might don’t have enough game activity to fulfill six categories, so we might want initially to divide in just three categories, like 0-3, 3-25, 25-*
In Lichess, we have 3 rating categories based on the time control, but they all very short:
0--Bullet--3--Blitz--8--Classical--300
|=======|======|===========|
But what if I want to play longer time controls? There is no category for that. Of course, I can play 2 hour games and it will account for my classical rating, but then if I participate in a 10+0 tournament then this rating will quickly flush away, so there is no point in playing both 10+0 and 120+0.
It’s evident that our categories are too shortly divided when we compare to other chess clubs:
FIDE:
0--Blitz--10--Rapid--60--Standard-->
|=======|========|==========>
USCF:
5--Blitz--10--Rapid--30-60--Standard-->
|=======|=========|============>
PS: games between 30 and 60 min affect both the rapid and standard ratings
Chess Tempo:
0--Bullet--3--Blitz--15--Rapid--60--Long-->
|=======|=======|========|=======>
ICC (chessclub.com), FICS (freechess.org) and Playchess:
0--Bullet--3--Blitz--15--Standard-->
|=======|=======|==========>
Thus I’m suggesting the creation of a forth category. In my humble opinion, the division of ChessTempo seems the best from all above. But we don’t to move the 8 min division, and it would be so nice to have a Hyperbullet category, were we have so much activity, so maybe we should innovate with more categories. Why not? After all, Lichess is the #1 in innovation. So it could be like this:
0--H.B.--1--Bullet--3--Blitz--8--Rapid--25--Standard--90--Classical--300
|====== |=======|======|========|===========|===========|
How about the migration of current ratings to this system? How can we split the rating of one category into two or three? Technically it’s not a problem. Since Lichess has the full history of games from everyone, developers can create a one-time process that chronologically re-calculates the ratings of everyone, this time divided into corresponding categories. By the end, Blitz rating will be the only one to remain unchanged. Other ratings will get split. Each player will see both increases and decreases in his ratings.
Votes?
As an experiment, Lichess could perform such calculation for everyone (just an estimate, no real rating change) and then send out a voting pool for the addition of new categories. Users who respond to the first question will be granted access to their calculated new rating, and then will be questioned again “Did you like your rating change estimates?”.
Variants? For the variants, we might don’t have enough game activity to fulfill six categories, so we might want initially to divide in just three categories, like 0-3, 3-25, 25-*