ok fionn here is the situation,
for 20 years france was orgenasing a frenchchampionship on regular paper wargammes, we where aech year inbetween 100 and 200 players gathering for the event, and we always played with chess cloks :eek:
this championship died eventualy and then come cm, old players are now all united again on appuiefeu the french speaking web site, we are now over 500 players ! we are using since the begining of the year an elo systemes based on chess.
Means that a high ranking playing against a low ranking gets less points if a win and losses more if a defeat ! it also means that if you lose one and win one againts same rankink the result is 0.
we also included the base victory of cm, total victory gets more points than minor ! this systemes gives much more seriousness to the ladder and keeps the spirit of cm, people who play a lot but loose don't progress in the ladder ...
when we play tournaments, all players can inscribe unless it's an elite or crack type, then high player can always play in tournaments against very low ranked recruits !
the idea is to get players of same level to play together and finaly elect best play and real champions (girls will love that) !
we gathered together two weeks ago, and the experience of everybody after two days of struggling was worth of 6 month of pbem.
when people saw me preparing my stuart move on 5 turn in advance on 5mm timing turn, and the effect was one puma, one panther and a pz4, people understood a lot of the diference of gaming and why like many others in the world I have 85% victory on 100 games !
and that is important for me to all exchange our experience of our passion
so the idea is to murge all on a WL (world ladder) cross the seas climb the mountains and meet for fun
we have an estimation of 2000 players of cm ranked on maybe 10 diferent ladders ! if we all agree we could do something really intresting for all :eek: