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Oct 3, 2022
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Is the rating that important?
it
is
a
game
don't forget to enjoy yourself once and a while.
Oct 3, 2022
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MeatHammer007 wrote:
Is the rating that important?
it
is
a
game
don't forget to enjoy yourself once and a while.
It’s not enjoyable when players that appear to be high rated play poorly. This isn’t about whether rating is important, it’s about how unimportant it has gotten, in complete contrast. I get this kind of message all the time: “I play for fun”, “it’s just a game”, etc. Is losing fun? No, but usually you can learn something from the loss. What do you learn from losing to people who have no regard for the game? Nothing.
Thank you oh wise one.
It's upsetting to see how much the inflation of ratings made a formerly (2018-2019) very correct level of 2000-2100 totally irrelevant, far too weak. People there quite often are not aware about the FFA basics (like https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/basic-ffa-aspects), attack you sometimes, or simply... fail to take obvious mates.
In this example (https://www.chess.com/variants/4-player-chess/game/30120493) my opp TWICE preferred deliberately not to mate a side (certainly not willing to lose his Q, which is in most cases a naive approach to FFA). The second time upset me most because I saved the guy from mate just before, sacrificing my development. Ok, he got his 4th place well deserved, but my side I lost because of him (I was of course supposed to be 3rd, finished eventually 2nd by mere accident, as red resigned by mistake, he shouldn't have).
In many cases in games under 2500 in fact it's not worth to help the opp because he doesn't even understand sometimes that you're saving him. In one recent case the guy in front even ATE MY QUEEN that went to save him from mate (!!!) and I finished 4th then (and he was of course 3rd, because https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/view/to-betray-too-early-means-3rd-place-in-95-of-cases).
Once I'm back to 2500-2600, I'll avoid playing games under 2400, it's mainly BS unfortunately. This beautiful game is only interesting and fair above this level (currently), otherwise it's rather frustrating.