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I could find a discussion on this so sorry if this has a thread elsewhere.
I've read you should generally play people better than you if you want to improve. I just learned I can adjust opponent rating range in the custom game settings.
so is it in my best interest to minimize lower rated players (chess.com recommends limiting to no less than -50 or -100 due to matching difficulty) and play anyone 400+? seems like I should only play this way and just let myself get used to loosing more and learning more
Dec 13, 2021
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Playing people 400 points higher than yourself may occasionally be interesting, but you will get destroyed in almost every game. I don't see how this is helpful.
I know with the rating spread you always get a variety, but yeah, it would get discouraging to lose all the time. At the same time, losing a lot would probably be good for me, would help with the anxiety about winning that I think it's in the way of better play
Dec 13, 2021
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Generally you want to play people one rating class above you (200 points). But that applies to OTB play, and online is different.
Dec 13, 2021
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Tfree88 wrote:
I could find a discussion on this so sorry if this has a thread elsewhere. I've read you should generally play people better than you if you want to improve. I just learned I can adjust opponent rating range in the custom game settings. so is it in my best interest to minimize lower rated players (chess.com recommends limiting to no less than -50 or -100 due to matching difficulty) and play anyone 400+? seems like I should only play this way and just let myself get used to loosing more and learning more
well, that's what I did... it worked for me. Or maybe because I just improved due to other reasons.