Hi My opinion is that a rating system like BBO skill is a good thing, but unfortunately impracticable in BBO. There will always be people, who will vitiate any such an idea. Regarding that statement I give as an example the person, known by nick name xxxxx - "xxxxxxReal $Online Lessons" lol In this case we have a total mockery and negation of the workability of the otherwise clever scheme! What happens - a table of false, fictional players is set, then we don’t see even the slightest effort to make a proper, relevant announcement, all hands are picked and the game is not even started. The only goal is to reach the desired result as an absolute value. Any rational human being can look at the “hands” of the person in question and make their own conclusions. No comment is needed. The main idea of BBO is corrupted, where is the fair play, where is the play itself at all? There is no play and if by any chance there is, it resembles a computer game for 10-year-olds. All this done for the sake of getting a high rating by people with psychological problems and mental derangements Furthermore let’s admit that the programming of a real rating system as ELO in chess is a hard and unrewarding labour. I don’t believe that any good programmer will waste his nerves, time and efforts to realize such a project, especially having in mind that his work won’t be adequately appreciated. In the end I want to highlight that a user with such shameful behaviour and who is successful by means of base-minded deceptions must be eliminated from this otherwise wonderful site! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No comment