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Who does update the ratings ?
Several contributors maintain the system to keep the rating list up to date.
- The Rating Commission
- decides on the general rules to be used to calculate the ratings
- decides on any issue or individual requests regarding ratings, especially for the "strong" players (stronger than 5-kyu).
For the handling of the ratings in the Belgian Go Federation, the Ratings Commission is responsible.
To contact them, you can use the email "rating at gofed dot be"
There have been years without rating commission active. In that case, the technical team applies a set of common practices and the board decides on more unusual or exceptional cases.
- Tournament organizers
- report the results of club games in a suitable format (see below)
- check the correctness of the rating list
- Club presidents
- Players
Players participating in tournaments outside Belgium can send the name of the tournament if the results can be found on the web (especially the EGD), or send the
results otherwise.
Players who are not members of the Belgian Go Federation don't have a Belgian rating.
The rating list published on the Gofed.be site is the official list of the Belgian Go Federation.
For every operation regarding ratings (e.g. to determine handicaps in interclub games and for initial seeding in the belgian championship preliminary round), always the most recent list is used.
If you notice an error, please inform the rating list maintainer.
It is important that players, tournament organizers and club presidents report regularly games results for the rating system to work.
One of the specific features of the Belgian system is that it allows to enter club games (i.e., results of less formal games between club members if they both agree in advance that the game is taken into account), this can help to make ratings evolve more smoothly than only with "tournament official games".
How to submit game results to the Ratings Commission
Results of tournaments and/or club games are to be sent to rating(at)gofed.be.
Always write the name of players as LastName FirstName, e.g.
Bogaerts Jan
Accents (éèëü...) are discarded and the system
is case insensitive. Also the system makes no difference between Van Der
Steen and Vandersteen.
Ranks are represented by a number and k or d. e.g. 3k means 3 kyu and 2d
means 2 dan.
Tournament results
We recommend that you use MacMahon by Ch.Gerlach.
Just send the .TUR file and the "wall-list for the rating program" export
you can make with the program.
If you prefer to do things manually, follow this example:
1 Li Chu 3D BE 15 9+ 2+ 4+ 3+ 5+ 5
2 Brongaerts Raoul 3D BE 14 12+ 1- 6+ 7+ 4+ 4 66
3 Freheza Miha 3D NL 14 10+ 5+ 8+ 1- 9+ 4 64
4 Kronk Rob 3D NL 13 6+ 15+ 1- 8+ 2- 3 65
5 Van der Krujk Harry 1D NL 13 16+ 3- 11+ 17+ 1- 3 63
6 Wing Chi-Yi 2D BE 13 4- 12+ 2- 15+ 8+ 3 62
So there is one player per line. Each line consists of field separated by
spaces. The fields are:
- Place in the tournament
- LastName FirstName
- Rank
- Country (BE or BEL for Belgian players !)
- Info (in this case macmahon score)
- Results for every round. For handicap games write
2+/b4 if this player played black and received 4 stones.
His opponent will have 10-/w4
Club Games
Use a text file with one game per line.
Each line has 4 items seperated by ',':
<Black>,<White>,<Handicap>,<Result>
Handicap is one digit (0..9) and Result is B for Black wins and W for White
wins. Player names may be followed by (rank), which will be used when
the player is not a member. E.g.
Connord Jan,Limov Cluexei (2d),4,W
is a handicap game between a Belgian player and a Russian 6 dan, with 4
handicap, won by white.
