Editing Elo rating system (section)

=== Other board and card games ===
* ''[[Go (game)|Go]]'': The [[European Go Federation]] adopted an Elo-based rating system initially pioneered by the Czech Go Federation.
* ''[[Backgammon]]'': The popular First Internet Backgammon Server (FIBS) calculates ratings based on a modified Elo system. New players are assigned a rating of 1500, with the best humans and bots rating over 2000. The same formula has been adopted by several other backgammon sites, such as [[Play65]], [[DailyGammon]], [[GoldToken]] and [[VogClub]]. VogClub sets a new player's rating at 1600. The UK Backgammon Federation uses the FIBS formula for its UK national ratings.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://results.ukbgf.com/explain-ratings|title=Backgammon Ratings Explained|website=results.ukbgf.com|access-date=2020-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114175326/http://results.ukbgf.com/explain-ratings|archive-date=2019-11-14|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* ''[[Scrabble]]'': National Scrabble organizations compute normally distributed Elo ratings except in the [[United Kingdom]], where a different system is used. The [[North American Scrabble Players Association]] has the largest rated population of active members, numbering about 2,000 as of early 2011. [[Lexulous]] also uses the Elo system.
* Despite questions of the appropriateness of using the Elo system to rate games in which luck is a factor, trading-card game manufacturers often use Elo ratings for their organized play efforts. The [[Duelists' Convocation International|DCI]] (formerly Duelists' Convocation International) used Elo ratings for tournaments of ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' and other [[Wizards of the Coast]] games. However, the DCI abandoned this system in 2012 in favor of a new cumulative system of "Planeswalker Points", chiefly because of the above-noted concern that Elo encourages highly rated players to avoid playing to "protect their rating".<ref name="Planeswalkerpointsarticle" /><ref name="planeswalkerpointsarticle2" /> [[Pokémon USA]] uses the Elo system to rank its TCG organized play competitors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/about/tournaments-glossary/#elo|title=Play! Pokémon Glossary: Elo|access-date=January 15, 2015|archive-date=January 15, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150115173351/http://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/about/tournaments-glossary/#elo|url-status=live}}</ref> Prizes for the top players in various regions included holidays and world championships invites until the 2011–2012 season, where awards were based on a system of Championship Points, their rationale being the same as the DCI's for ''Magic: The Gathering''. Similarly, [[Decipher, Inc.]] used the Elo system for its ranked games such as ''[[Star Trek Customizable Card Game]]'' and ''[[Star Wars Customizable Card Game]]''.