Ratings now at www.itsyourturn
Posted:
Aug 23, 2000, 3:20 AM
I am now rating all tourney Pente games (called Pro Pente there with the usual tourney rule) at www.itsyourturn.com (IYT).
This is a great site in that it so easy to use. Also, there is a tourney starting every week and they are very easy to enter and play in. Right now, there is an average of about 40 players entering the 'Pro Pente' tourneys. I'd like to get that up to 60-70 on average.
The downside right now is that a majority of the players on that site are very recreational (although many are improving quickly) and there are a lot of time forfeits by players who enter tourneys and don't make moves. For rating purposes, I don't rate forfeits where both sides haven't at least made 5 moves. Also, the tourneys are completely random pairings so you could play anyone in the 1st round.
But these are just minor irritants on an otherwise great site.
The ratings there are posted once per week on Sunday by me on the 'GoMoku/Pente/Stack4 analysis' message board.
I am bringing this to everyone's attention to try to encourage more good players to play there. Also, beginning late this year, I will be running seeded tourneys on the side at that site using the ratings list. You will need to have an established rating (at least 20 rated games from tourney play there) in order to play in these seeded tourneys.
Currently Mark Mammel, Aaron Fortune, Joeking, Andre Velloso, and myself from here play in at least some of the tourneys there. I hope to see more of you there!
Gary Barnes
This message was originally posted at Yahoo's pente group.
Re: Ratings now at www.itsyourturn
Posted:
Oct 3, 2000, 12:22 AM
Ok ignore my previous post, I see all the questions were answered in message #158. That should teach me to read all the old message before I jump into a discussion.
This message was originally posted at Yahoo's pente group.
