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4th August 2008, 12:43pm
#1
by bobobbob
Dallas, Texas United States
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 885

In vote chess games some people have been complaining that lower-rated people are voting for bad moves. The experts and masters cannot do anything about this as they are outnumbered. What I suggest is that your rating counts for the number of votes you get. For example, a 2400 rated player gets 2400 votes, and a 1200 rated player gets 1200 votes. This way, the higher rated people won't feel so helpless and outnumbered. What do you think?

4th August 2008, 12:51pm
#2
by AquaMan
Albany, Oregon United States
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 759

Works for me.  A detial, but I'd say move the decimal point 3 to the left so the vote count isn't huge. 2400 get's 2.4, etc.

4th August 2008, 01:03pm
#3
by Patzer24
United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 13487

You should check out the vote chess game based on ratings - http://www.chess.com/votechess/game.html?id=8243840

4th August 2008, 01:24pm
#4
by RyanMK
Iowa United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 2277

Speaking of vote chess could there be a "My Vote Chess Games" section under My Home. It would be more convenient than navigating through 10 pages to get to your desired game.

4th August 2008, 01:38pm
#5
by Ricardo_Morro
Bridgeport, CT United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 892

If you are going to play vote chess, you might as well play dice chess, like they did in the middle ages. Same level of meaningfulness.

4th August 2008, 01:42pm
#6
by SpookyRooky
Dallas United States
Member Since: Jun 2008
Member Points: 48

I think the most modern solution is that the people playing could vote for a smaller group to represent them in a "vote chess electoral college" only to later find out that the  move with the most votes (which could possibly have avoided a backrank catastrophe) didn't count anyway. Get with the times people Tongue out

 

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