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[Hells_Kitchen_Gamer]

On the one hand, I did give up on online chess once I realized how much I sucked at it. But on the other hand, I doubt that I would have been more likely to stick with it if it used an experience system like Land of Legends.

The rating system has several advantages:

(1) You get to play people of your own skill level. The game isn't as enjoyable for either player if there is a big mismatch in skill level.

(2) It makes every game important because you don't want your rating to go down. When you can just quit a game without losing anything, some people become disrepsectful and just log out because some real world concern comes up.

I think that the people who will find this game will be sophisticated enough to undertand the purpose of the USCF style rating sytem. It works very well for the games at Yahoo or Pogo. I would want to play more games with the USCF style rating system.

I'm not sure exactly how the Yahoo type ratings are calculate, but they seem to go up very fast if you start winning games. My chess rating was low not becuase I got hosed from the very beginning, but rather because I was only able to win against other really lousy players.