News release is almost totally uninformative. It's about ratings guru Mark Glickman developing a modified chess rating system that predicts the likelihood of draws as well as wins. Sounds interesting I guess. I haven't yet read the papers:

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What would you say about the latest proposed methods to freshen up the whole system?

FischerChess, perhaps..?

(I haven't played chess for years, and was maybe ~1700 ELO at my peak, but the drama is always fascinating for some reason, lol)

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I haven't been following proposed rating system changes if that's what you're asking. Variants like Chesd960 are interesting but obviously should have their own rating pools.