I've never heard of these variants yet it says they are in development, any info on them?

Move limits don't just hurt pawns. They hurt members too. Now players can't play games in one sitting or even a chunk of moves in a sitting. Limiting moves for pawns won't solve the problem. I say reduce pawn's games to 10 or 15.

Maybe for first person to get to move in Backgammon instead.

I would like to see a feature in your profile next to each game saying what your opponent's average rating is now or when the game was finished.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking, Thank you.

Ok, I was wondering about the rated games under 4 moves total that don't count towards ratings. I have two of these Game ID: 1800, 1802 In one I timed out before moving, in the other it was a 2 game match, he moved I timed out, then I timed out the other so that's only 3 moves. So both shouldn't have counted for ratings. However, one (1800) did because I recieved a 4iar rating after 4 games but it should've been 5 if the game was properly not counted. Yet in Linetris (1802) I completed 4 games and was still unrated, meaning the system worked there and did not count 1802 for ratings.

If you have one of the short games that don't count for ratings, don't you need 5?

But how come I recieved a provisional Line4 rating after only 4 games?

Here are the game numbers to back it up. In Line4 after 4 games I got a rating Game in Question: 1800 if the system was working properly it should've taken 5. Yet in Linetris I've completed 4 games and am still unrated, Game ID: 1802 so this one worked properly.

The following way to have a game not count towards ratings does not work properly, Both players did not perform at least two moves. It can happen when one player loses the game by a timeout at the very beginning. The games are still be counted for ratings.