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How to improve your KGS rating? One useful hint
Source: post by Robert Jasiek on GoDiscussions.com
The last time I became KGS 5d, I had to play hundreds of games, winning
ca. 2/3. This time, becoming KGS 5d was much easier: 31 wins to 15
losses on some 3 days were sufficient to improve about 0.31 ranks. (On
the previous 4 days, I played 2:0, 12:3, 14:11, 3:1.) The reason is, of
course, that last time I had played a lot of games every day during the
previous 180 days (the period during which the rating system takes into
account prior games) while this time I played less and in particular
during the previous 107 days only on 16 days at all.
So the easiest way to become stronger in the KGS rating system is NOT TO PLAY AT ALL, then win a few games.
This is to be expected since the rating system weighs previous games by
the number of DAYS preceding the current day. As I suggested already
earlier, the reasonable thing for the rating system to do would be to
weigh previous games by the number of GAMES preceding the current game!
Then no player would be punished for playing too many games on KGS.
Currently the KGS rating system does exactly that. Punishing for
playing a lot - absolutely stupid! One could understand the opposite,
i.e., if the rating system punished for not playing enough games.
There are many reasons why the rating system is bad but this is one of the top reasons.
Alexander Dinerchtein: Yes, he is right. If you play lot of games every day, it's hard to get higher ranks. As an example you may see "artem92". He has nice winning percentage, but still stays on 7-dan.
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2009-08-19
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