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Development
The chess server is responsible for the continuous operation of the club.
The development of the server was stopped in 2005. No new features are expected, although the club will operate in its current state for an undetermined time.
The most important last developments:
- Jan 10, 2005: We can form teams. We are preparing for team matches and team tournaments.
- Sep 6, 2004: Supporting the Fischer Random Variant we can play Bobby Fischer\'s great chess variant here.
- Jun 22, 2004: Claiming result in broken games: Winning is not always the best for everyone. The innocent player can decide what he/she wants.
- May 18, 2004: Calculating an approximate reliability factor for the players: This helps to get a basic overview of the playing habit of the player.
- Mar 7, 2004: Continuous class tournaments: Players from wider class ranges can play against each other in these tournaments
- Nov 22, 2003: Invitation based tournaments: Official, external organizations use this, where entering is possible via the players\' previous results.
- Oct 22, 2003: Analyses: Players can study game analyses sent in by other players, and can share their own analyses with them.
- Oct 6, 2003: A guidance for new members is set up. New players can go through all the features of the club via the chapters of the Guide. They will know how things go in the club, the most important things, settings, and what to do and how to do.
- Aug 24, 2003: Support of the Insufficient Mating Material Rule.
- Aug 9, 2003: Messages with moves, challenges, etc.: According to the traditional correspondence chess, players can easily discuss with each other during their games.
- May 8, 2003: Downloading games in PGN: Games can be retrieved as PGN attachments.
- Apr 30, 2003: Scrollable moves in games in html message format.
- Apr 21, 2003: Digest mode: Players can set they want to get their messages in one or two (or more) batch messages, where all their messages are collected into one. This helps them to keep balance with their normal life or work especially when they play many games simultaneously.
- Apr 21, 2003: Automatic pairing: They can set how many games they want to play simultaneously and whenever the number of
their active games lowers under this value the server will try to find them new opponents by pairing.
You can suggest things to develop or voice your opinion to Andras Galos according to the Contact page.
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ELO Rating
An ELO rating is the result of statistical calculations designed to measure the playing strength of players. These methods were developed by Arpad Elo and are named after him. The ELO system is in almost universal use and has been further refined by others, notably Glicko, but is still named after its creator.
In devising the ELO scale, some premises were used that are worthy of note. It was decided that a rating of 2000 would be the equivalent to scoring 50% in a US Open Championship. It was also decided that a player's rating would never be negative.
Importantly, the standard deviation was fixed at 200 points. This means that if a player's true strength is 1500, he will score around 68% of his results within the range of 1400 to 1600 (as measured by performance formulae).
Another result of fixing the standard deviation at 200 points is that it also defines playing categories. For example, most International Masters and Grandmasters are in the 2400 - 2600 category, most national masters in the 2200 - 2400 category. Those in the 2000 - 2200 category are called Experts, or Candidate Masters.
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You can use this graphic and link if you want to create a graphical link...
http://www.e4ec.org/
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