Did chess.com get harder suddenly?
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May 27, 2025
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#101
#91, yeah, I’m pretty sure that can’t happen. If somebody cheats against you get the rating points back you lost from the match. No match can make you lose more than 16 rating points if memory serves. I don’t suggest reporting people you think are suspicious, might waste the staffs time. I was granted rating points back yesterday when I didn’t even have the slightest suspicion somebody was cheating. I went through my games to try and find this game but nothing really stood out, I just played bad. You shouldn’t have the mindset that somebody is cheating against you, you should think that you misplayed.
May 27, 2025
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#103
#93 When you review games and at a critical stage every move is the top engine move I think that speaks for itself
May 27, 2025
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#106
Trying to upload image showing the 50 rating points added but upload image doesn't seem to work. If anyone knows how let me know.
yeah freaking real
Glad_Hander wrote:
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.
The chess.com bots tend to be rather inflated in their ratings by a couple hundred points. My guess is that they do that to "flatter the customer" so to speak, so that people are made to feel good about their skill level and engage more with the site. Generally, at any level, you can expect real, human players of a certain rating to be significantly stronger players than the bots of the same rating level.
(You might hear this a lot already, but as a newbie, learning general principles and practicing your tactics is generally the best way to go to try to improve your skill level). Doing puzzles regularly and frequently can greatly help with this.
Good luck with reaching your improvement goals!
Chess.com got easier suddenly.
After struggling for months I got 26 out of my last 30 puzzles correct.
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.
Look I’m not sure game review normally says I play around 1250 and when I played in a tournament my elo was 1101 but my chess.com elo is 600
yes the opponment did get harder 400 now watches levy roman and gained a wopphing crazy iq check out a random person 2017 match at 1k elo it is trash
Jul 18, 2025
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#112
Game Review's rating estimate is not meant to be taken as an alternative to Elo or Glicko. They are two different things with two different functions. Glicko is meant to quantify your actual skill. Game Review just provides feedback for one particular game, like a report card, in a more familiar and meaningful way than what you get from all the numbers and individual move classifications.
Almost always, complaints like yours are just the result of tying self-esteem to rating, thus creating the need for someone to blame. "I don't suck. Chess.com sucks!"
The best advice: stop blaming others. If you want a better rating, improve your game so that you actually deserve one.
Jul 18, 2025
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#113
Chess.com programmers frequently manipulate the chess bot backend that you don't see in order to keep you playing-It will threaten or dominate you so you can have the exact kind of rewarding victory that adds to process addiction on the site, as part of the monetizing loop.
Jul 18, 2025
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#115
Well, I’m getting worse by the day. Now, I’m worser than before and that’s about the worstest thing that could happen.
Aug 3, 2025
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#117
These answers are unsatifactory, from a statistical perspective. It's August 2025. A lot of us 800s just lost 200 ELO from weeks of losing. It's not just me. It looks like 500s are playing better, or cheating. Nope. Something undisclosed is happening to rankings. And as someone above noted, jinking with hundreds of accounts will not affect rankings when there are millions of accounts anchoring the stats. Moreover, it's not just ELO dropping. Percentile too. Yes, we all go through natural variations in performance. But these should be random red noise in tine, and independent between players. However, there is a sustained trend that is correlated across many. So none of the explanations above are sufficient to explain the observed data.
I’ve also been losing Elo but it being a result of cheating seems unlikely to me
I don’t think chess.com is changing the Elo system or anything either. It doesn’t rlly make sense to hide it if they were. Plus I see no reason to change it