I deleted and started a new account and won 4 of 5 games and the website placed me at 700 instead of 1000!? What is going on?
I do not know why you were put at 700 instead of 1000, but I do feel rather sorry for you.
Your leechess rating means nothing as it isn’t comparable to another website. It only tells you what you are against a different pool of players. I’m in the 1500’s on the other site and barely hanging on to 1200 here. My rating here hasn’t taken the same nose dive as mentioned previously. One is certain the pool i play against on leechess is much weaker than here, and i get an unusual number of draw requests over there as soon as one is losing.
everyone knows that ratings on lichess are inflated
so a 1200 on chess.com could be a 1600 on lichess with almost no effort
ratings stabilise only at about the master level
I know it's an old thread, but the OP has been playing chess for 32 years and his rating was always 1500-1600? how can you not make ANY improvement in over 3 decades ?
Here's the thing - how does Chess.com bring down everyone's rating? The playerbase would be the same, so the total rating in the chess rating pool would never change: (When you lose a game, someone else wins). The only method to bring down everyone's rating would be to introduce a sudden influx of botted accounts that were much stronger than their rating revealed, and I think something like this would have been found out by now.
This is true and it points out how so many members complain about ratings and don't even know how they work. It is cyclical. It is a balance. It is a number that is just as relative to a whole pool as a percentage is to 1.000 it just also figure for strength of opponent. Funniest thing is how the complainers sometimes talk with words like *rob me of my points* Like they never get them back LOL. Its not a quantity. The server should post a big thread to explain what a K factor is haha. And how that many games from now your ratings gonna be exactly what it woulda been if the game you complained about never happend. 🤪
Hmmm, your theory can be correct, I just do not understand what is cyclical and what is even relative to a whole pool