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 19 hours 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 11 hours 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.