The further below your rating you play, the less your rating increases for a win. If you play so far below your rating that you never lose, your rating won't increase.
Chess and its false ratings
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I would think that your rating will increase but by small margins.
What about the case where you only play opponents way beyond your skill level...and loose all your games...does your current rating truly reflect your chess skill?
Ratings do not measure Chess skill. Ratings measure Chess performance.
Correct "ichabod801", therefore it is false to judge someone's chess ability by their rating.
Yes, one of the reasons Internet ratings are less reliable is that you get to choose your opponents, unlike in a tournament. Then again, this is not a tournament, people play here for fun and practice and cannot be forced to play someone they don't want to. I wouldn't think that the issue is all that significant.
Atos wrote:
Yes, one of the reasons Internet ratings are less reliable is that you get to choose your opponents, unlike in a tournament.
Unless a significant number of players are trying to game the system, it is not clear to me that this statement is true.
Two other point I would like to contribute-
1. Ratings are historical data, and thus your progress between games are not measured, thus the longer between your matches the more skewed your rating may be.
2. I am not sure if ratings consider the quality of your play. So if you mate an opponent in 10 moves you get the same points as say your opponent abandons the game in 100 moves. Or, if you capture most of his pieces and mate him in 20 moves, as opposed to you loosing badly, and lucky to win on a blunder.
dont read too much into ratings.. just enjoy the game. looking at it roughly is the only way, for example on here I would get a better game with a 2000 rated than a 1300 or 2700 rated in most cases.
ReedRichards wrote:
Two other point I would like to contribute-
1. Ratings are historical data, and thus your progress between games are not measured, thus the longer between your matches the more skewed your rating may be.
2. I am not sure if ratings consider the quality of your play. So if you mate an opponent in 10 moves you get the same points as say your opponent abandons the game in 100 moves. Or, if you capture most of his pieces and mate him in 20 moves, as opposed to you loosing badly, and lucky to win on a blunder.
1. This is why the Glicko system includes an RD. It increases as time passes to reflect the uncertainty in your rating, which is taken into account when adjusting your rating after your next game.
2. They don't. They only measure performance. Win/loss/draw and the performance of your opponents.
Player, A is rated at 1500, but only plays white and only plays those who he thinks are weak, say 1200 or lower. Player A keeps winning, so his rating goes up and up. His rating would be false. Maybe chess . com should have those who play live online, play white and black and players with all ratings, no abort games, its either play or you lose, then over time I think you would see a true rating for all players.