STATS: _krikay_blue's score change was reduced by 78.0% because scottyboi was a newbie

nicknax: hey soz for not replying
nicknax: been busy tonight
nicknax: it means the person you played played less than 100 games
_krikay_blue: its kk mate
_krikay_blue: ho kk

2) The newbie modification: if you play a newbie the points that you play for are reduced.
New user's are given a trial period of 100 games. During this period they are called newbies, and these 100 games allow the user to approach their correct ranking.

However as we are unsure of their correct ranking during this period we reduce the opponent's gain or loss in score.

This will prevent you losing a lot of score if the user is actually a very adept player, and stop you picking up a lot of points against a very weak player.

This is known as the newbie modification, and you can see this value if you turn on the stats in the options.

The maximum reduction is 80%, gradually reducing to 0% as the user approaches 100 games.

Ironically, newbies scores are not effected by the newbie modification.