2.1 Who should understand this? Who understands this?

This paper has been written to give the common player an idea, how rating is done. Therefore

all readers waiting for tremendous formulas will be disappointed. This is, because formulas are luckily nothing more than recipes to prepare ratings from game results. But who understands, how the recipes are created, knows what rating is about.

Step by step each section uncovers another insight: It presents a problem, the concept for the solution and closes with an example to make things clear.

This does not mean that there is no formal mathematical definition of the procedure (See section 5.4 The Formal Description of the Procedure..). If you are keen on a demanding discussion, you are invited to risk a view into it.

If you have any trouble to understand this script, MEISTER ECKHART has some cheering words for you: Wer diese Rede nicht versteht, der mache sich in seinem Herzen keine Sorgen.