Alright, am I good player, I’m around 1600 for blitz and around 1800 for rapid.
Why is everyone low rated so ridiculously good?
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I have only been playing for 1.5 years
Yeah, you are doing better than me after 2 years!
I started at around 1300 and went up by about 100 points every year. Slow learner, lol.
I got stuck at around 1700-1800 level for a while. In the last 2 years I studied openings and reached 2100.
Blitz, I still cant get above 1900. It takes a lot of natural skill (logic, judgement, calculation) and speed of thought to do well at Blitz. I think it suits younger players and I am now 44
ChrisZifo wrote:
Yeah, you are doing better than me after 2 years!
I started at around 1300 and went up by about 100 points every year. Slow learner, lol.
I got stuck at around 1700-1800 level for a while. In the last 2 years I studied openings and reached 2100.
Blitz, I still cant get above 1900. It takes a lot of natural skill (logic, judgement, calculation) and speed of thought to do well at Blitz. I think it suits younger players and I am now 44
I would focus on positional chess and getting a good endgame and learning how to swindle learning to spot tactics that's probably the most important thing that helped was me spotting 1900-200s blunders and if they don't blunder try to force it learning tactics prob most important (not threw puzzles btw) those are kinda useless
BigChessplayer665 wrote:
ChrisZifo wrote:
Yeah, you are doing better than me after 2 years!
I started at around 1300 and went up by about 100 points every year. Slow learner, lol.
I got stuck at around 1700-1800 level for a while. In the last 2 years I studied openings and reached 2100.
Blitz, I still cant get above 1900. It takes a lot of natural skill (logic, judgement, calculation) and speed of thought to do well at Blitz. I think it suits younger players and I am now 44
I would focus on positional chess and getting a good endgame and learning how to swindle learning to spot tactics that's probably the most important thing that helped was me spotting 1900-200s blunders and if they don't blunder try to force it learning tactics prob most important (not threw puzzles btw) those are kinda useless
I agree, the puzzles are not very helpful.
But how then do you learn tactics?
My method: learn openings (not every single line by line of course, that would be impossible) and if you see a move by your opponent that looks like it is a bit "untidy" then there very well may be a chance of some kind of winning tactic- and there often is.
Gambits can also trick your opponent into foolish decisions, but I know a lot of people at higher levels are wise to them and just end up getting a free pawn and winning
ChrisZifo wrote:
BigChessplayer665 wrote:
ChrisZifo wrote:
Yeah, you are doing better than me after 2 years!
I started at around 1300 and went up by about 100 points every year. Slow learner, lol.
I got stuck at around 1700-1800 level for a while. In the last 2 years I studied openings and reached 2100.
Blitz, I still cant get above 1900. It takes a lot of natural skill (logic, judgement, calculation) and speed of thought to do well at Blitz. I think it suits younger players and I am now 44
I would focus on positional chess and getting a good endgame and learning how to swindle learning to spot tactics that's probably the most important thing that helped was me spotting 1900-200s blunders and if they don't blunder try to force it learning tactics prob most important (not threw puzzles btw) those are kinda useless
I agree, the puzzles are not very helpful.
But how then do you learn tactics?
My method: learn openings (not every single line by line of course, that would be impossible) and if you see a move by your opponent that looks like it is a bit "untidy" then there very well may be a chance of some kind of winning tactic- and there often is.
Gambits can also trick your opponent into foolish decisions, but I know a lot of people at higher levels are wise to them and just end up getting a free pawn and winning
Honestly I just ignored openings and played whatever opening I felt like playing based off whatever YouTube video showed up
I started out at 600
Sep 5, 2024
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#289
I'm low rated daily . . . 1261 . . .
But I suck . . .
I keep repeating my errors . . . Oh well! . . .
Well I am already I old player in chess I would say and I think I am a little higher than intermediate but I would really like to know my raiting because it just says that I'm 700 but I know that I am like a 1400 or even a little bit higher so I would like to know my real raiting to know how much I've improved but it just says 700
Well, im 450 elo and im bad 
🙄
I used to play on chess.com when I was new to chess but then I started playing on lichess and improved a lot and i came back to chess.com and my rating is super low my friend his rating is 1000 and I can easily beat him so it there anything I can do to change my rating
jerrylmacdonald wrote:
Another thing worth mentioning is with such a day over day influx of players maybe rating is not the best guage of improvement in the short term. Ask yourself if your current self could beat a version of yourself from a month or year ago.
It's critical to recognize that daily player influx can make ratings less accurate for instant progress. Instead, focus on personal growth and ask yourself if your current skills surpass those of a month or a year ago. Improvement isn't always reflected in ratings. Reflecting on your own development can provide a clearer picture of progress over time.
lakshya988 wrote:
I used to play on chess.com when I was new to chess but then I started playing on lichess and improved a lot and i came back to chess.com and my rating is super low my friend his rating is 1000 and I can easily beat him so it there anything I can do to change my rating
Friends are easier to beat than random pool
JankogajdoskoLEGM wrote:
Abolish ELO
No u Smurf buddy
No pain - no gain, bro! :strong
200s and 2000s on this site are practically the same thing. ratings are rigged.
Dec 4, 2024
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#299
I noticed a definite change in quality of play starting around 900 EL(O. When I started, chess.com assigned me a rapid rating of 400. I got slapped around as I learned to play and fell into the 300s. Now I just play Daily games, which fits my goals and schedule better. Anyways, by mid-900s I found that there was a big jump in quality of play. Blunders became rare and players definitely know more opening variations.
EasyJayChess wrote:
I noticed a definite change in quality of play starting around 900 EL(O. When I started, chess.com assigned me a rapid rating of 400. I got slapped around as I learned to play and fell into the 300s. Now I just play Daily games, which fits my goals and schedule better. Anyways, by mid-900s I found that there was a big jump in quality of play. Blunders became rare and players definitely know more opening variations.
It's easier to make people blunder when you get into higher ratings it's not rare it's prob just that you don't know how to make the position difficult yet
And 1500s suck btw (no offence to any 1500s here)
Hikaru/Levy said 2300s suck btw (no offense)
It is all relative. Magnus Carlsen and Gary Kasparov could probably say Levy sucks! He isnt even a GM. For me, a "good" level of player is 1600 (Blitz or Daily, not rapid and not Lichess, which is 300 points easier). 1900-2000 is very very good. Anything above 2100 is an expert, a really strong player with years of experience or a natural talent. Above that, players are LITERALLY masters.
The issue with saying Levi sucks is that he occasionally beats people like hans I bet a good chunk of gms are scared even if he's worse
What would you say is a good rating for rapid?
For rapid, about 200-300 points higher. Maybe 1800 or 1900 on rapid is a good, club level player. Towards 2100-2200 is a very good club level player. Just my rough estimate.
Below the 1800 rating on Rapid (not Blitz), I often face players who fall for gambits that an experienced player would not. For example, the old Benoni trap. I must have won 100-200 games with that trap (although that is more a measure of the huge number of games I have played on here over the years.)