3.2 Will the Ranking Change?

There are three levels of changes:

1. New tournament results: The rating data will change after each tournament. It should not take longer than a couple of days after receiving reliable and correct data (See section 4. Can the Tournament be rated?.) to update this site.

2. Ranking, Regulations: Many of the rules have been fixed now, just to start up the system in time. This does not mean, that the rules are bad, but if someone has a better proposal, there should be an open discussion (including all tournament players) about it. And in the end, the formal rules should be fixed. The following list is just an incomplete basis for discussion (Any response?):
   • To be ranked, a player now must have at least 30 games, six of them within the last twelve months (See section 3.5 How Can I Get a Ranking?.). Dieter Krapp proposed that players with more than 100 games totally should have 18 to 24 month time, before they are removed from ranking due to inactivity. I feel that this should be considered.

   • To be rated, a tournament must

3. Rating: This rating has reached a level, which is well beyond the traditional ELO-chess-rating, because it avoid some problems (inflation, initialization, ...), which are inherent in traditional rating systems. There are still some interesting questions to solve. But it takes a lot of knowledge (and some time) to proceed. The current rating-system is robust and stable. Therefore there is no point making hectic changes, before the knowledge increases significantly.