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Know how much rating points you'll gain/lose before every game

I feel like it would be nice if we could know how much rating points do we gain or lose before the game even started, as say chess.com for example, like (win 7, draw 1, lose 8) and viceversa ... What do you guys think ?
I wouldn’t mind that. I’m sure a lot more people would abort games though.
There is no real point in that. If that was shown, it would only increase the abort rate.
No thanks. I think it's better to focus on playing well and not on the rating.
Displaying the gain-lose ratios is like showing what you will get if you try to win or what you will lose if you do not try to win.

Some play Zen mode to not see ratings.
Some might try harder to win when infront of a higher rated player.
Some are here to outrank others, while others are here to have fun.

Some softwares displays how much you can win or lose by playing a particular engine.
It's a nice feature to see in the chess lobby. It could replace the rating range scale.
There would be no need to say 600 to 2900. Simply say 0 to +36. That way it's like saying ±400 from my present rating.

I prefeer ± 200, rather that saying 1500 to 1700. That way the ±200 follows my progress and I don't have to adjust it as my rating increases or decreases.

On other servers doing a hover/mouse-over you‘ll see the expected values before accepting the challenge.
@Sarg0n If you get a random matchup with another player and you see that your rating will drop by a huge amount even if you tie or if there is a highly one-sided rating imbalance that doesnt favor you, you will abort. The game abortion rate will increase dramatically for a while before bans bring the game abortion rate back down.
Only when hovering over the challenges before accepting.

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