2.8.4. The Players rating

Players are rated according to the ELO system created by Professor Arpad Elo, an American Chess Master. This statistical system has been adapted to rank competitors in sports as disparate as Scrabble, Golf or Checkers.

You may find useful to locate yourself in the ELO rating with this table (Source USCF)

Table 1. 

Title

Range

Senior Master

2400 and up

Master

2200 – 2399

Expert

2000 – 2199

Class A

1800 – 1999

Class B

1600 – 1799

Class C

1400 – 1599

Class D

1200 – 1399

Class E

below 1200

With 3D Checkers Unlimited from TLK Games, you can check easily your ELO Rating in reference with the level of your opponent. At start, the ELO rating of the players is 1500 points.

The winner received 1 point.

A draw brings 0.5 point to each player.

The additional value to the original score of each player is the result of a statistical computing taking in account the number of games each one has played.