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My opinion of the new rating system.

Alright, I seems I have to put up with the current system. Since there's still the opportunity to play unrated games I think it'll be okay. Thanks.
I agree that mixing them in only one number should drop.
Till now, about half of my games where otb (don`t play it anymore, there`s not even a chess club in my city), and I never had/wanted/needed a rating. I find it funny how people get angry on this subject and a few idiots even cheat to get a bigger one. I sure would play chess online even if there where no ratings, but they serve a purpose, and I think that they fulfill better this purpose by staying separate.
I was pretty upset about the pool rating mixing with my normal one, since my pool rating was sort of the "I can just get up at any time and do something and if I lost a game then it wasn't too bad because it didn't affect my real rating"
Also, since my rating has dropped (due to the new rating system and to me playing badly) it makes me feel horrible to have such a low rating though...
Idk, it's not my site and it's free, so what really is there to complain about? :)
I think it is better to wait until all the rating changes are over and the new system is on; let things settle a bit and when the fog is gone start the praise/complaining machine.
so how long is it going to take before all changes are applied?
What exactly are the changes anyway?

Is it simply the averaging of all the different variants? Does this include the lichess puzzles as well?

It really sucks to me that the pool ratings have been included, because that was by far my worst ratings. It took me down almost 150 points overall.
Maybe in the future the pools will be good, but right now I think they are really weak on this site. There are way too few players in the pools, and again, most pool players are better than the average lichess player, so the rating for pools is skewed, usually to be lower than everything else.
Oh okay, so they merged pool ratings with standard rating, but variations are variant-specific?

Hopefully this system will encourage more pool players, and the pools can become more balanced/true.

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