What is a player rating in backgammon?
– Rating systems in chess – Online backgammon rating What is a player rating in backgammon? A player’s rating in backgammon is the 4-digits figure that expresses his/her level of expertise. The players’ rating points are determined by their record of achievements in backgammon games and/or tournaments played against rated players. Obviously, players’ rating is not a unique backgammon characteristic. Different rating systems are applied to calculate sports teams and athletes rankings; chess has its well known advanced rating system as well, often adapted to variety of two-player and multi-player games, backgammon among them. Yet unlike chess, backgammon does not have one, unified rating system; each online backgammon website (FIBS, Play65) has a similar but not an identical rating system, and the multitude of backgammon associations (WBA, WSOB) with the absence of a single international organization, do not contribute to an equable players’ rating calculation method.Rating systems in ch
