Player Rankings

[dcroll]

Hi gmiller,

I thought of a ranking like the one implemented on FICS. There, if one types "best", the slowchess players with the highest ratings would be displayed; and by typing "rank", the players with a similar rating would be displayed. I think this would simplify finding game partners; and one could challenge players with a similar rating in order to play instructive games.


Greetings, David/dcroll

[rdarmi]

u can view the player ranking by clicking on 'all rating' list in the main page......

[dcroll]

That does not answer my question. The list starts with guys that haven't been active since November 2004 - how could one challenge such a player? - and it ends with place 2000, which names "hinrich", having a 1641 points rating. What about the weaker players who would like to play against below-1500 opponents?

When I saw your rating of 2801 points... Surely YOU don't suffer from the problem I have!

[rdarmi]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

question:
why you want to challenge a specific person instead to start a game with just the elo you want to play?

suggestion:
if you use the 'find high rate games' option u can choose which elo bracket you like from 0 to 2600, there you will find active players, just refresh several time as is 'random' search

[dcroll]

1. By using "find high rated games", among 50 games there were only a few games with a 1500-player when a 500-points cutoff was used. Finding people this way really is a hassle. This could be improved with "Find games with a ratings average vom xxx to yyy" or something.

2. When posting a match offer, there are very rarely weak players entering the match. If I set the boundaries to 0/9999, the opponents are found very quicky, but I had to remove requests like 0/1000 because there seem to be no players in this range.

[rdarmi]

point taken,
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

from that point of view it will be useful

[gmiller]

This isn't quite done, but it'll do for now:
http://www.net-chess.com/playersearch.php