This topic is in response to yet another new topic in which a beginner is complaining about getting trashed by much stronger opponents and the OGS advice is to just take a few beatings to establish a rank. OGS uses the Glicko-2 rating system. This has advantages of stability, speed of response, etc. More @Wikipedia
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