Ranking and handicaps

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The ranking system does some more magic to achieve better results, but what Woden wrote is in almost all cases correct.

AdamR wrote some more aspects of the rating system down in this post:

Scoring system

Unfortunately the Glicko based system is hard to fully understand (for me at least) therefore I cannot give you “precise numbers” for winning/losing, but all you need to know can be summarized like this I think: Score difference does not matter WIN or LOSE, no matter by how much Smaller boards have smaller impact Wins against a stronger opponents give you a higher boost and vice versa The complicated thing is that Glicko takes into account even games that took place later. (Better un…