[Feature Request] Incentivizing Post-Game Analysis

If both players stay on the analysis board for five minutes, it would be nice if the losing player received half of the rating points they've lost back, and the winning player received perhaps a +5 to their rating.

Or perhaps a badge could be awarded to those who regularly do post-game analysis.

Such features, however, are secondary to the need to make the analysis board itself better. As it stands, your opponent cannot see the variations you put up nor the arrows you're drawing, nor can you write comments on the moves. These, to me, are major flaws to an otherwise fantastic feature.

I really don't think this is the best idea. If people weren't analyzing their games beforehand, they'll simply sit in the analysis until their rating goes up, then leave.

It'll also give players who regularly analyse games a disproportionately high rating.

Finally, ratings are not like "points" or a score... it's a mathematical estimate of your relative playing ability. If ratings were given as rewards, they would become meaningless numbers.

The idea is that you've learned something from the process, thus making you an incrementally better chess player. I don't think the ratings would become disproportionate, since at most you're analyzing 10 games a day or so (something like this wouldn't be worth the time of someone playing blitz). Also, higher-rated players would be there to push back down anyone who attained a disproportionately high rating to their skill level.

Despite all that, I do think the points-based reward is inherently flawed, if for no other reason than that it looks like it would make people have disproportionate ratings. Hence the trophy idea.