Did chess.com get harder suddenly?
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It is under no circumstances an accurate measureMent of your strength
gin-chan6969 wrote:
I feel like people at the same rating have been playing better lately and I have been losing a lot of rating points the last few weeks. Am I just playing worse? It could be because I quit caffeine but it's still a pretty big difference.
When i took a long break from chess and came back, I played really well to my surprise, but after a bit, I got back down to my usual slightly dumb slightly smart self.
there’s something about approaching things with a fresh mind that makes a difference, but I don’t know how yet.
Mar 23, 2022
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No, don't listen to the others. It's a conspiracy by coffee companies and chess.com to ensure you drink more coffee.
Mar 23, 2022
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gin-chan6969 wrote:
It's a very accurate measurement of strength. The only way it can go down without me playing worse is that everyone else got better, or lots of people left chess.com (because it sucks) and there was a rating deflation.
So you never considered that you were playing worse.
What….
rat eating. you heard
M1m1c15 wrote:
It is under no circumstances an accurate measureMent of your strength
Yeah the way it works if u have a few bad first games u go down to like 500 but if u have good ones u get to like 2000
miskit_mistake wrote:
No, don't listen to the others. It's a conspiracy by coffee companies and chess.com to ensure you drink more coffee.
Yep
There is a chart somewhere online which says over time you can lose 25% of your games against players rated 200 points below you.
dfgh123 wrote:
There is a chart somewhere online which says over time you can lose 25% of your games against players rated 200 points below you.
That chart sounds interesting and accurate, I want to see it!
Was that interesting and inaccurate?
Mar 23, 2022
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BabyCow73 wrote:
dfgh123 wrote:
There is a chart somewhere online which says over time you can lose 25% of your games against players rated 200 points below you.
That chart sounds interesting and accurate, I want to see it!
Here's an example:
https://www.318chess.com/elo.html
Mar 23, 2022
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Martin_Stahl wrote:
BabyCow73 wrote:
dfgh123 wrote:
There is a chart somewhere online which says over time you can lose 25% of your games against players rated 200 points below you.
That chart sounds interesting and accurate, I want to see it!
Here's an example:
Charts are just numbers. Like age and ratings. Numbers are just numbers
We all know it's really all about the coffee conspiracy.
Hello
Martin_Stahl wrote:
BabyCow73 wrote:
dfgh123 wrote:
There is a chart somewhere online which says over time you can lose 25% of your games against players rated 200 points below you.
That chart sounds interesting and accurate, I want to see it!
Here's an example:
https://www.318chess.com/elo.html
Thanks for the chart, but I'm a little surprised that there's no weird ones where their better but somehow its more likely for you to win, maybe because of your adrenaline.
Mar 24, 2022
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Has it gotten suddenly easier to qualify for "brilliant" moves? I have played less, my rating has fallen since September and more or less stagnated on blitz for three years, but I am finding more "brilliant" moves in the game analytics. I never used to see these show up, but I come up with one in most games I've clicked analyze on the past few days.
xbrenbrenx wrote:
Defender, about what are you unclear?
I’m unclear with the erections. I didn’t know that others even knew there was another definitive term for it. Also….why talking about rat eating
Mar 24, 2022
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BrianOlley wrote:
I think that the algorithm makes choices about who we play that are not Hobsons choice, next one up, type of thing. Also I think that it is like casinos, the house always wins. There is a thing about rats, I have heard of, that when two rats play fight, if the bigger always wins, the other won't play any more, so to keep us coming back to play, every now and then, we win a few, rating goes up. But not too much, then straight back down again. It is quite easy to watch it play out on the graph.
I highly doubt this, I've never experienced this, I'm 1800 and could probably beat you almost 100% of the time, it's not just that the algorithm "gives me easier pairings".
Edit: I've been around 1800 for a while and I'm still 1800, I've also noticed no difference in playing strengths changing, as someone who hops on to play some games every now and then I should have been able to feel this difference the most since theoretically I would have been least ready for it.