wishiwereficher wrote:
Kaeldorn wrote:
The pool of players is sure different.
I guess its hard cause I play some here that only are ranked 1250, but then pull 1800 level performance at 90 % accuracy, then I play 1250 to 1300 that blunder their queen or let me pin them quite easily. I think the growing popularity of rapid here has definitely made the entire group stronger by virtue of practice, popularity of the site through youtube and streamers that average players can learn complex attacking lines from, and by use of playing the strong bots on site that certainly can improve the average players.
Yep, I touched on this, idk if you play fighting games but the same thing goes on there, we have a word for it there, it's called "smurfing".
It feels kind of insulting to be called a beginner when I've been playing for years and years.
A "beginner" is someone who's not long started playing chess. That's really all it means. The term beginner has nothing to do with skill or ability.
Beginner-intermediate-advanced-expert... It's clear that it is a scale of skills and ability, so even the first term ( beginner ) in this context should be understood in this sense. "Beginner" in the sense of someone who is still at the beginning of a path, i.e. in an early stage. If the road you have taken is 100 km long and you have only covered 5 km ( It doesn't matter how long it took ) , you are still at the beginning, don't you think ?
Anyway, if the term "beginner" sound offensive, let's replace it with another one ( "basic", maybe? ). The substance does not change. Despite the progress I've made since I could only move pieces or a little more, I still consider myself a basic-level player, taking into account my current limitations in the game.
A small objection to @wishiwereficher , too:
To be honest, if 85-90% of the players here play like me, I don't think there are many experienced players in proportion to the total number. I'd say that they are no more than 5%. And now, too, we need to understand what is meant by "experienced".
But it's a matter of perspective, as usual.