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A new system for rating specific chess variants. The new system will operate as follows: 1. An inventor of a chess variant posted on our site, will be able to select their variant to be part of our rating system. Only variants specifically selected would be part of the rating system. Editors have the option of adding variants for which the inventors cannot be contacted. Once submitted, the web page for the variant would be 'locked' (ie. no significant changes to that web page would be allowed). 2. Registered members and users will be able to rate any of the selected variants. Rating would consist of assigning numbers from 1 to 5 to a particular variant (with smaller numbers being of a lesser quality, larger numbers being a greater quality). Users would be able to rate a particular variant only once, with the ability to change their rating. 3. Variants will be rated in five categories: Design, Inventiveness, Beauty, Presentation, and Overall. Design covers how well the variant achieves its stated goals. Inventiveness covers the number and quality of novel concepts introduced in the variant. Beauty covers the aesthetic appeal if the variant. Presentation covers how effectively the web page conveys the information on the variant. 4. Any ratings submitted will have to be accompanied by a textual explanation explaining the reasons for the particular ratings. Only after review by the editorial staff will a rating be accepted. Raters must have played at least one game of the variant they are rating. 5. For each selected variant, an average rating will be calculated based on its individual ratings. There will be a page which displays the selected games sorted by this average rating. Only variants which have been rated five or more times will be listed. 6. All ratings will be reviewed by a Chess Variant Pages editor. Any ratings which do not meet our guidelines will not be visible on the site. 7. Guidelines for ratings. Ratings must be respectful, well thought out, logical, reasonable, comprehensive, and comprehensible. They must reflect the rater's own experience evaluating and playing the game. Ratings are not to be made lightly, so we expect a certain degree of seriousness (although a reasonable amount of levity is certainly allowed). Ratings regarding a game invented by a Chess Variant Pages editor will not be subject to that editor's review, so as to remove any suspicion of bias (whether deserved or not). Use the following link to display games currently available for rating: Ratable-Games
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 Chess Variant Pages Rating System. | ||||
Fergus Duniho  | None | It does seem that this rating system has been little used. The highest rated game has remained the same for the longest time, and it has been rated only twice. The two main problems with it right now are visibility and competition. The link to rate a game appears near the bottom of the page. Meanwhile, there is a link at the top of each game page for rating the page. People who want to rate a game usually use the top link, which is for entering a comment and a brief rating. With two systems in place for rating games, people are favoring the one that is more visible and easier to use. David, if you want people to use this system instead, my recommendation is to (1) make it more visible and (2) use only a single rating system. Either remove ratings from comments or integrate this system into the comment system. | Edit View [*] | |
| John Smith | Poor | This system seems much too tedious. How about having numerical ratings in the comments and a rankings page based on that? Perhaps editors can review ratings for being official or not, having the same requirements as this system. | Edit View [*] | |
Michael Lubin  | Average | This idea is good in general, but your category system strikes me as weak. Your four categories other than 'Overall' do not, between them, get at what is most important about a game. How well the variant achieves its stated goals? Whether that's even a good thing depends on the goals. The number and quality of novel concepts introduced in the variant? I don't think I'm alone in believing that a large number of good chess variants -- probably easily a majority -- rank relatively low in this category, while many bad ones rank very high. It seems to me that the main thing is PLAYABILITY. 'Aesthetic appeal' has something to do with playability, but doesn't really cover it. And then 'Presentation' is just the web page. I can easily imagine disliking a chess variant and yet ranking it equal or higher in each of these categories to a game I really liked. | View [*] | |
| David Howe | None | Hi Joe, >> Next, how do I sign up? Go to any of your game pages (the quickest way to do that is to go to your information page, and click on the 'Items this person invented' link. Any of the items under the 'Game' section can be submitted for entry in the rating system. Just display the web page for the game you want to submit, and you'll see near the bottom, right above the author/inventor line, a link to 'Submit this game to be available for rating!'. Click on that link and follow the instructions. You have 7 games you invented, so it shouldn't be too much of an effort for you to submit them individually. I just hope Ralph Betza doesn't try to submit all his! ;-) Note that only GAME pages may be submitted for rating. If you have a game courier or zillions item that you want to submit, just create a game page for it first, and then submit the game page. I am limiting ratings to game pages to avoid one person rating game X's zillions page, while another person rates game X's game courier preset and yet another person rates game X's game information page. ... [view entire] | Edit View [*] | |
| Joe Joyce | Good | This seems to be making everybody who wants a tighter and more informative rating system happy, but it may take a while for the games to actually make it to the 'rated' stage, as it requires 5 individual ratings. Next, how do I sign up? As far as I'm concerned, every game I post I want rated, so is there an automatic sign-up? I've currently got 4 public presets, 2 of them with a rook option. How do I get them put into the rating pool? And how do the 2 presets with the optional rook get rated? Does someone have to play all [preset] versions of a game to rate it? And any other games I get posted? Can they go in automatically? I guess that's enough questions for now. Thanks. I'm interested in seeing how this works out. I hope it does well. | Edit View [*] | |
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