Brian1971: "This way people who play over a thousand games at a time dont drown out players who play much fewer games."

This is another point that you haven't understood. Look at the Pawns competition and be aware that almost 100% of thoise points are single points for non-tournament games. In the Rooks competition something like 80-90% are tournament points which score double. So multiply the Pawn scores by 2 and compare the lists.

And then try and explain how Pawns with 20 games maximum are far, far from being "drowned out" by Rooks having over 1000 games??

You'll notice that there are no Knights in the entire Rooks competition. Oops, I shouldn't have said Rooks there, because it's for non-Pawns. Why no Knights? Because they don't have the 100s of games and they don't get many doubled points from tournament games, Knights are severely limited (crippled, in terms of the competition) in the number of these that they can have.

But that's not quite true. A Knight with a fast connection and the willingness to compete (ie, put in the time) could, with the techniques that the Pawns use, beat the Rooks and win a prize.

And that would apply to anyone in these ranges of number of games that you've proposed. It's not only numbers of simultaneous games, it's turnover.