Dont play people with low ratings

[sdunkin]

I dont know how this can be.... i played this one guy that had a extremely low checkers rating i think it was 0 but he won and our ratings didnt change and i won one and the ratings never changed that way......and by the way it was a rated game lol

[nichole9180]

well if his rating was 0 how could your rating go up? you cant take any points from 0 to add to yours!

[Motley]

It's basically the same in all rated games and Pogo puts this in their How To Play Section of the games:   Rated games where the difference between opponents ratings is greater than 600 will not affect the players ratings. This is to prevent more experienced player from taking advantage of new players.

So, yeah if you want to build points don't play people when the difference between your ratings is more than 600.

[smiles29]

that is very true, but the person who one and had the lower rating thier rating shoulda gone up.  i have noticed that when i play someone with a very low rating - in any rated game - their rating goes up and mine goes down quite a bit but if i win im lucky to go up 1 pt.  so go figure.

[FlipFlipGAMEOVER]

wow come on guys the 600 point rules been around forever, and even if there wasnt the rule you'd have to beat the guy like 40-1 just to break even lol. i usually dont play more then 100 spread if im tryin to gain rate

[sdunkin]

that explains it, actualluy i usually play people with higher ratings and that nite i was losing like every game so i thought i would just win against a begginer but that didnt seem to happen. Thanx for the input everyone O0