If I lift weights, and they feel suddendly heavier, which is the most likely?
A) Weight changed and 1kg is now heavier than it used to be.
B) I'm in a lower shape than I used to be.
I'm always amazed how some people do actually believe they'd be the so stable center of the Universe...
If I lift weights, and they feel suddendly heavier, which is the most likely?
A) Weight changed and 1kg is now heavier than it used to be.
B) I'm in a lower shape than I used to be.
I'm always amazed how some people do actually believe they'd be the so stable center of the Universe...
Just first lift of the day, that's all.
Answering your suggestion, someone who has played chess for many years and has been a strong player probably IS in a position to judge.
I hope my cognitive abilities are not in sharp decline I kept a break for over a year and half - before it I was constantly hovering at around 1300-1330 and now am having real difficulties in getting above 1150. People with just 1100 rating seem to be quick and knowing basic strategy and tactics quite automatically. Should I see a doctor?
At my level, in the 900s on Rapid, sometimes I win relatively easily, sometimes it's a grueling struggle that may end in a win, a loss or a draw, but all three outcomes tend to suggest the opponent was genuinely about the same skill level as me, and sometimes the opponent quite handily defeats me and seems to be quite a bit better than their nominal rating. I fell ill and didn't play for a couple of weeks, and have come back with my game perhaps a little improved by the rest. I limit my play, basically because I am prone to "tilt".
I hope my cognitive abilities are not in sharp decline I kept a break for over a year and half - before it I was constantly hovering at around 1300-1330 and now am having real difficulties in getting above 1150. People with just 1100 rating seem to be quick and knowing basic strategy and tactics quite automatically. Should I see a doctor?
At my level, in the 900s on Rapid, sometimes I win relatively easily, sometimes it's a grueling struggle that may end in a win, a loss or a draw, but all three outcomes tend to suggest the opponent was genuinely about the same skill level as me, and sometimes the opponent quite handily defeats me and seems to be quite a bit better than their nominal rating. I fell ill and didn't play for a couple of weeks, and have come back with my game perhaps a little improved by the rest. I limit my play, basically because I am prone to "tilt".
I wouldn't be too worried unless you're also suffering from pronounced memory loss, are weak and unsteady on your feet or have other symptoms. I'll be 73 next month and up until the past month I haven't played otb for about 4 years. I just started going to the local chess club again. I started playing blitz games about 15 months ago and my confidence was very low and my concentration was bad. I looked at your profile and it seems you're only played about 50 games. It took me over 1000 before I was even starting to feel comfortable again. It took 4000 before I was playing with real confidence and I've now played 6000 or so and I'm noticing another positive change. I'm becoming much more solid again and confident in playing a variety of positions. I would like to get my blitz up to about 1900 again ... where it used to be. It isn't going to happen with 5 + 0 ..... I think I would have to play with an increment because I would say my thinking is just a bit slower in the past 10 years than it was. Maybe 5 + 5.
It's easy to believe that the standard has gone up but, last year, I was ill, with what I believe to have been the Omicron variant. It infected my brain early last year causing occasional hallucinations (inexplicable sounds and smells, for a few months) and no other symptoms until I had a minor visual hallucination and then a couple of days later I had all the covid symptoms simultaneously for 29 days (including fever, and overheating). Then it suddenly stopped and a week later I had extreme tiredness and dizzyness (which I presume was long covid) and after another 3 months, I recovered, except for slight cognitive decline and a drop of about 250 points in my chess.com rating. I think Covid was able to enter my brain and was doing damage for about 3 months before my immune system kicked in with a vengeance causing typical covid symptoms.
I don't know this for a fact, but I guess that a lot of people suffer brain damage or just drop dead from covid infection of the brain without even knowing that they have it. This could be why the excess deaths count has remained high. I have done some googling and Omicron has 2 potential routes into the brain compared to just one for the previous variants (with the exception of the original Wuhan, which had 4!)
I wouldn't take any more vaccines because I don't want anything which reduces the intensity of my immune reaction to infection. I believe that being ill with covid is the thing that saved me from further damage or death. Likewise, I won't now take antihistamines for hay fever as they could suppress my immune reaction too. (Diseases don't rest in the hay fever season)
It is all to do with personal choice and I would not advise anyone else to take the vaccine or decline it. At least I have a lot to relearn now about the chess openings which have been erased from my memory.
As a newbie trying to break through the 400s, I'm struggling much more than I thought I would. I've been able to beat 700 ELO bots with ease, yet every match against a real player in the 400s gives me a run for my money. My opponents rarely make mistakes, to the point where my Game Reviews estimate our ELOs in the 600-1200 range. It's confusing to me how players at my rank play with such high accuracy, yet the bots meant to emulate that skill level constantly blunder and hang pieces.
400 and playing like 1500 (depends on rating)
Yes. I was before usually 1400+ rating and now i am 1200-1300. Blitz
well since the candidates started if faced nothing but defeats, weather it is 750s blasting top moves up to move 20, weather it some alien dudes blasting 20 moves in 10 secs, all accurate of course, weather it some dude sitting at 800 having played 20k+ games, blitzing out everything and winning in 10 moves easily, no matter the opening you throw out, certain defeat is waiting, also it doesnt even feel like im playying real humans most of the times, as the move accurices to time spent gets more and more ridiculous with passing days
I usually check after game, what was opponent best rating. Example if he/she are 1200 in the game and best is 1600, so no wonder he/she was good.
actually it is getting kind of comical now, i've lost well over 20 games now and the streak continues, and what amazes me most it that my opponents like robots all make the same amount of mistakes and inaccuries a game regardless of rating, it is alwasy like 3 or so inaccuricies and 1-2 mistkaes, not a single blunder by any opponent so far, and i went all the way from 1000 to like 770 or something, i mean this is ridiculous, might as well play bots and this point
You are just a beginner. It goes up and down.
No, all your games were daily, and you have played precisely 0 live matches at the time of this comment (in case someone's gonna go and look up his account in the future trying to disprove me), you are probably a CHEATER because you won most of your matches (that were already DAILY GAMES which were mostly THREE to FIVE days long [which gives you time to look up engine moves and win]) and never even played a one-hour match, let alone 30, 15, or 10 minute matches. You joined since 2013, but only played one game that year, and one in 2017 (where you lost), but all the sudden you got better after 4 years, without playing any match (daily, live, or blitz) in those 4 years... idk man, seems a bit suspicious... so you're just kinda not in the position to criticize or dismiss anyone... Oh, and my account was made today (again, relative to the time of this comment), and I can verify that what these guys are talking about is 90% correct and relevant. I just made this account, and already had to deal with 700s, 800s, and 900s who played like 1200s, alright. One guy from the Czech Republic, who I got matched with, played multiple top engine moves towards the end of the match and I only lost because he blundered (but most likely mouse slipped) his rook to a square where it got taken by my bishop, and he resigned after that.
For context, my old account was [ Username: 12345chillurassbro ; Elo: 1411 ; and I actually played live games ] (and I was NOT banned -> just to clarify that this account wasn't made because the old one was banned due to CHEATING), and during 2023, things were already getting more difficult for me on my old account. I made this account to have fun again because almost every game that I played on my old account were either just draws or losses, or the matchmaking took too long, and 80% of those, who I did get matched with, aborted. And I didn't come here to whine, in case you question the motivation behind my comment, @arosbishop; for one, because I won most of the matches against these low Elo players who played suspiciously good at certain points during our games; and for two, because they did play high-intermediate moves (except for a certain Czech guy, who played high-advanced or maybe even straight up top-engine moves) at some point during our games, then just flopped and blundered all over the place afterwards, if you care to go and look at those games yourself. Man, I hate arrogant people.
Ok, and if you do really want to prove if I'm indeed 12345chillurassbro on my old account, go ahead and challenge me on a 30 minute LIVE match, and after the match, if I win, I will change my status to "ierutnbti won", and if I lose, I will change my status to "ierutnbti lost", the last game was played a long time ago and if you check right now, it isn't any of those mentioned above, so if anyone wants check if I'm real and challenge me, first go to my profile before challenging me, look it up, and then challenge me, I will not play any game on that account until someone challenges me, after that, you will either see one of the two words mentioned above in my status. Cheers
If you think about it seriously, Elo points are not a total reflection of how good or accurate a player you are. It’s merely a medium by which people historically found suitable opponents. Your true estimate as a player is CAPS accuracy over time and what percentile you are relative to everyone else. As more people join the Chess community and quickly improve, they potentially become underrated and then Elo becomes scarce relative to their accuracy. In the end, everyone struggles to sustain their best ratings without constantly improving.
If you think about it seriously, Elo points are not a total reflection of how good or accurate a player you are. It’s merely a medium by which people historically found suitable opponents. Your true estimate as a player is CAPS accuracy over time and what percentile you are relative to everyone else.
Absolutely not. CAPS score is almost meaningless. It is 100% for player who plays book moves and then agrees to a draw. Meanwhile, it is much smaller to a player who wins all games.
Elo is literally your past results compressed in one number. Sure, online chess sites use it for pairings, but it's ridiculous to claim that "It’s merely a medium by which people historically found suitable opponents". Historically, Elo ratings didn't exist. It was only invented 75 years ago and FIDE started using it 55 years ago.
I agree gin-chan. I've been playing long enough to sense when something suspicious is happening. People can talk the science of ratings and the high's and lows but instinctively I feel a lot of people were cheating. I'm not a GM to confirm myself but I did report a few people and one message I received from chess.com granted me 50 rating points ! Now that the purge has taken place, and this has happened before you should be able to get back to your true rating very quickly.
I like this site more and more. There are many good players.