I'm really interested in the OP's comment about playing what appear to be vastly different playing skill in the <1200 rating range. Sometimes I play people who appear to have only the most basic understanding of chess moves, and they are rated 1050ish. Then I play someone at 1080 and I get matched with an 80+ move game full of nuances and beauty. WTF??
I'm really interested in the OP's comment about playing what appear to be vastly different playing skill in the <1200 rating range. Sometimes I play people who appear to have only the most basic understanding of chess moves, and they are rated 1050ish. Then I play someone at 1080 and I get matched with an 80+ move game full of nuances and beauty. WTF??
This was why it was so hard for me to get over 1200 even though I made huge improvements. I would beat the typical 1100-1200 players, but then I would get matched up to these 1100-1200 players who hardly even made an inaccuracy the entire game, let alone a blunder. It was in these games where I had a really hard time winning. Right now at my rating level the competition is actually easier and the majority of games are either draws or wins where one side just barely won due to a bad mistake by the opponent.
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YES!!!!!!!
In the past year I went from a 1025 to a 1315. That climb was excruciating for exactly the reasons you mention. And I also felt the competition was easier at the top.
Then I entered a tournament and lost 100 points in a day and I'm back in the meat market. But why/how does it exist?
I have to go but later I will post several recent games which prove the point. the short of it is that there is a huge disparity in playing ability.
What's the RD value?
What is this obsession with ratings? By playing more and more games you get assigned the rating you deserve.
Also there is nothing wrong with playing someone who is a little better or a little worse than you.
lmfao that's a 1200 elo game...
5 moves in you were blundering already
Well, it was level 6 on chess.com and it was on a gaming computer so the processor is pretty decent.
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dude i beat level 5 and lose to level 1, haha funny shit.
Beat on L5 without taking a move back.
Played L6 and could not beat it, so decided to mirror it against Shredder ELO approx 2200 and got a draw. Aldwyn East V'so Jerome West
Level 10 seems to play at around 2200.
About the same strength as COMPUTER 4 IMPOSSIBLE in Live Chess.
Or the strength of a National Master.
I'm pretty sure you can get an idea of the computer's approximate ratings by having it play itself on two different platforms then measuring its CAPS.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/better-than-ratings-chess-com-s-new-caps-system
So I just had my laptop [set to Level 7] play against my phone [set to Level 10].
Desktop Level 7: 1700-1800 OTB
Keep in mind the sample size for this experiment was simply one game.
Easily defeated level 9 guess my fide rating 😅😆
Ive yet only drawn level 8 and won level 7. But I notice usually when i think very long and hard and play some complicated positions on level 7 or 8 and it always gets some complicated tactics in the end/middlegame and i lose. And sometimes i just literally blitz out without thinking at all, exchanging everything fast and it gives away free pawn and I win so i think it really cant be measured that way. Also i had many times even 4 vs 2 pawns and rook endings and i lose or draw 
Simply put its very stupid to play computer
I wonder if there is a way we can get more accurate ratings than just guessing. How would it work? I imagine somebody with a powerful computer but under strict time control (so no ponder) have the different levels of chess.com computer play a bunch of against engines with known ELO (roughly speaking of course, perhaps engines that has played hundreds of games against other engines and high level players).
I've tested it against some other engines. It is slightly weaker than Stockfish 8 on 25 ply (only slightly). On the Elo scale as used in TCEC compared to Stockfish 8 I'd say the Level 10 engine is somewhere around 2900-3000. I've checked its moves and almost all of them match perfectly with Stockfish 8 (it occasionally makes a "microblunder" but that's because it doesn't search very far). Level 9 is also tough but I would put it much lower on the scale because I have decent chances of beating it (so I would rate it ~2100-2200 TCEC Elo).
Great thank you, I did imagine it must be better than 2600-2700 at least because an engine I was using that was rated around that would lose to it often.
Wow, if you can beat level 9 you must be pretty good. I play on my PC and I'm stuck on level 7, have yet to beat it.