Alas if your son's account is only 3 days old, his rating will not yet be at all accurate. That's no reason you shouldn't be proud of his chessplaying of course. Chess.com uses the Glicko rating system which attempts to quickly find your approximate rating in order to pair you up with suitable opponents. As a result there are very large swings in rating for oh, maybe the first 50 games or so. Until the Glicko RD (equivalent to a standard deviation ((whatever that means-no mathematician here)) drops significantly under 100, the score is not really reliable. Hope my explanation helps, but I've taken the liberty of doing a forum search for you if you would care to read more on the subject.
https://www.chess.com/forum/search?keyword=Glicko+RD
Hi all. I was just wondering how accurate or how close to the actual ELO rating the ratings here on chess.com are. I'm asking for my son as he is only 10 years and is currently rated a bit over 1500 here on chess.com and I have only been teaching him for about a month and a half. He has only had an account here for 3 days.
I am curious to see the responses because, well I know a 1500 ELO rating is not anything spectacular but like I said I have only been teaching him since early January so he is a beginner and well, I think it would be great if he were 1500 so I would love to here some suggestions from the community as to what course of action I should/could take. I know, I know, I sound like a proud father. Well, yeah i am
Thanks in advance