Idea to make chess.com """"better""""

Chess.com should implement a ranking system for openings. 

What do I mean?

For example, every time I win with the london opening, I gain london mmr (we will use mmr as the name here). Then, there should be a london opening leaderboard with all the top global london players that have the highest london mmr on the site. 

Every time I lose with the london system, I should lose london mmr. If you are playing against an opening like the london, if you win, you will gain london mmr, as mmr should show mastery of the opening, and being able to play the opposite color is probably also mastery. It also makes classifications easier. 

To prevent people from gaming the system, only rated games that are from the random pool (i.e. no custom rated games, no tournaments) that are within a +/-200 elo range will be counted towards your opening's mmr. 

If you're not good enough to be top global, you can also gain a top country title, such as for example, "United States #57 london system". You will have the option to equip your title(s) so that when someone clicks on your name in the website, they can see your title (your opening title) under your name. 

Global should be top 1000, and country ranking could be the same. Country ranking will be based on the flag that you choose to represent.

Every three months, the mmr leaderboard should reset, giving everyone a fresh start. We can call these periods "seasons", and in your profile page there should be a section where you can see all the past titles you've earned in previous seasons.

All of these changes will introduce more workload to the chess.com developers. In return, users will be more motivated to grind certain openings, leading to increased usage of the site. A side effect of this change will be that lower rated players will become more invested in learning openings, thus hindering their development as chess players. 

To counter this, we can make mmr gains lower at lower elo, and higher at higher elos. Losses will usually be similar in number to your gains, so a 2100 that has 2 wins and 2 losses will have the same net change as a 1100 that has 2 wins and 2 losses in the same opening.

Here is an artistic rendition of what this would look like in the "play" field:

i think london mmr shouldn't exist

no no think about it. This is a great idea. We will be able to create a list of prolific london players and then ban them all at once!