Elo vs accuracy
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Danimal77
Mar 28, 2021
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After most games I run the game report to look for my first mistake, usually anywhere from move 3-10 as a means to improve that opening. Sometimes I'll have a nice win and I'll think I played great. Then the game report will say I was something like 48% accurate and my opponent was something like 8% accurate. So not a great game for either of us. I think accuracy % over say 20 games is more reflective of skill than the Elo we earn.
What say y'all?
Mar 28, 2021
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#2
Danimal77 wrote:
After most games I run the game report to look for my first mistake, usually anywhere from move 3-10 as a means to improve that opening. Sometimes I'll have a nice win and I'll think I played great. Then the game report will say I was something like 48% accurate and my opponent was something like 8% accurate. So not a great game for either of us. I think accuracy % over say 20 games is more reflective of skill than the Elo we earn. What say y'all?
Hmm It is possible. The original CAPS article talked about the average CAPS scores of the players it looked at, not individual games. https://www.chess.com/article/view/better-than-ratings-chess-com-s-new-caps-system
Elo rates you on wins/losses/draws versus other players. If you lose a lot of games on time or by disconnection, you may have a high accuracy rate and still have a low rating.
Mar 28, 2021
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#3
Your rating and your accuracy don’t remotely measure similar things. You can have a high accuracy and still lose a game to a bad move. Rating is related only to your likelihood to win against another player.
Mar 28, 2021
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#4
I play in my phone, my fat fingers have cost more than a few wins. I stopped playing blitz so I rarely timeout. I play 30 min. The game report has taught me I'm often too passive.
Mar 28, 2021
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#6
I figured if I could my accuracy up my rating would follow. But I see your point
Mar 28, 2021
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#7
If chess were golf, you could score hole ones all day long, be entirely awesome winning everything, and then, at the 18th hole, your opponent notices a slight error that neither of you could have seen in the 4th hole and now you're in last place.
Your accuracy score is just there to show you that even if you lost, you did hit 17 holes in one, which is still pretty good.
However, it's just something there to give you a general idea of what's going on, I wouldn't think of it any more than that.