This would seem very strange to me if so.

I am up for playing anyone of any rating just for the fun of it, but would think twice if I was to be PENALIZED for simply playing a lower rated player.  

Now LOSING to a lower rated player I could see losing a massive bunch of points, but not winning....thats just dumb. 

My rating seemed to drop nearly 100 points after beating a lower rated player!  A bit odd, no?  The game before I gained nearly 100 points from beating a much higher rated player.  

Its frustrating to beat someone 1800 and then play someone whos 1000 because thats what they're here for, to play, and then get everything I gained from beating the higher player taken away for a WIN....lol.

Am I missing something? 

 

 

 

Are you sure you lost points on that win and not in any other game ?

Tell you what, challenge a lower rated player, and, on the beggining of the game check to see how it will change your rating if you win \ lose

If you see that you will lose points if you win, simply abort the game before making your first move

On ICC you can lose points when you win, but on chess.com that shouldn't happen.

TiagoDevesa wrote:

. . . [C]hallenge a lower rated player, and, on the beginning of the game check to see how it will change your rating if you win \ lose

If you see that you will lose points if you win, simply abort the game before making your first move

Now there's an idea for an new feature: Before you challenge someone, or accept their challenge, you could check to see how playing them could affect your rating. You could also use such a feature to decide what range of players you'd be agreeable to play against. Useful, no?

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Thank you all for your time.

 

To be honest....Im really NOT sure that I didn't lose the points from some other game.  I guess I have to learn to read the layout a bit better, im still new here.

On a side note: Knowing how a match will affect your rating BEFORE you play is an interesting idea.  

Thanks again! 

 

Well, shut my mouth! Chess.com already is pretty much giving us that feature. Before you accept a challenge, at least, you can find the win-draw-loss consequences in the Game Details section, about 3 mm away from the Accept button. (How did I miss that?)

And by viewing a few Open Seek games, you can get an idea, at least, as to how playing players in a certain rating range would affect your rating in what way. That way you won't have to abort a game.

And maybe there's an even easier way that I haven't found yet.

Are we talking about Live Chess or Turn-based Chess?

I was talking abut turn-based. I haven't thought it through re live chess.