Rank question & board size

If I just play two live games a day, or generally a fixed number of games a day they’ll adjust at the same speed. It really depends on peoples habits.

If I play a new game as soon as I finish a previous one and play as many games as quickly as I can, then, maybe the ratings adjust “faster”.

I’m very similar.

Is it not useful to just have the separate ratings in the table as indicators of different board/time settings strengths and/or frequency of play. Do they need to weigh in differently to the overall rank?

I can understand that some people don’t want to mess with their overall rank if it’s from 19x19 games by playing 9x9 or 13x13 etc, or if they think their rank will go down if they play time settings other than their usual. I’m still not sure I understand why one should weight them less, and in particular pick an arbitrary weighting. Why not make 9x9 0.25 and 13x13 0.5 because there’s about half the number of points on 9x9 as to 13x13 and half of 13x13 on 19x19?

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