Chess.com Ratings are a JOKE - Chess Forums - Page 12

Sea_TurtIe

Jun 2, 2023

0

#221

what happens after though? i just push b5?

MaetsNori

Jun 2, 2023

0

#222

Well, Black has different options. But I wouldn't play ...b5 as it blocks the bishop's pin on the d3 pawn that Black just created.

Something like this comes to mind:

Playing with the tension on the d3 pawn, and then also finding another point of activity: the f4 square.

Knight to e5 is a maneuver I avoided when I was lower-rated, as I didn't like "doubling my pawns". But doubled pawns in these kinds of structures can often be useful - they can help restrain your opponent's pawns from advancing, and can open useful files for your rooks.

Sea_TurtIe

Jun 2, 2023

0

#223

when you make a board in forums how do you draw lines and highlight squares in them?

MaetsNori

Jun 2, 2023

0

#224

Sea_TurtIe wrote:

when you make a board in forums how do you draw lines and highlight squares in them?

Settings -> Boards and Pieces -> Make sure "Highlight Moves" is checked (I believe that's the setting).

Then, when you're posting a board, put in your moves first. Afterward, go back through your moves and right click and drag to make arrows. When you post the board after that, the arrows/squares should still be there.

Right click to highlight squares. Right click + drag to make arrows.

Left click to erase highlights/arrows.

Sea_TurtIe

Jun 2, 2023

0

#225

Sea_TurtIe

Jun 2, 2023

0

#226

oh shoot it worked

DrSpudnik

Jun 2, 2023

0

#227

The OP is the joke.

blueemu

Jun 3, 2023

0

#228

In this sort of position (from IronSteam's post above), I as Black would have laid out my defense a bit differently... with the e-Pawn on e5 instead of e6, and the Knight on e7 instead of f6. That offers maximum resistance to White's d3-d4 idea, and gives the c8-Bishop a good square on e6.

This sort of thing:

Sea_TurtIe

Jun 3, 2023

0

#229

just play it like a botvinnik english:?

blueemu

Jun 3, 2023

0

#230

Sea_TurtIe wrote:

just play it like a botvinnik english:?

Sure.

In such a semi-closed position, the tempo (playing Black instead of White) means little... especially since White probably wasn't ready for a Botvinnik and probably hasn't made the most accurate piece and Pawn deployment.

After completing his deployment, Black has three possibilities of active play which he can choose between or combine: the f7-f5 break, the b7-b5 break, or (in some cases) the d6-d5 break.

Optimissed

Jun 5, 2023

0

#231

TheBullyMaguire wrote:

I am 1100 rating.Or so I thought…
After making a different account than my main one, 15 matches later, I am 1700 rating.

What the hell?

Let me explain what is going on here, and why the rating system is severely flawed, and also why you may be better than you think.

Let’s say you start an account.

You are 800 rating.

You play until you are around 1100-1200. Perhaps at this rating most people either stop playing or completely commit to chess.

At this point you stop improving for some months, or so it would seem. Although you play every day, you just can’t seem to get higher in the rankings.

What gives?

Meanwhile, thousands of other little Timmy’s are doing the exact same thing.
Let’s say all the people in that rating are improving in skill at the same rate you are. That means no matter how hard you try, you will never get out.

You can be rated 2000 and still be in 1200. Exaggeration? Perhaps. But consider if most 1200’s are actually 300-400 points higher than their actual rating, that means it would take at least 100-200 rating of skill (generalities I know) to consistently beat opponents in that skill bracket to get out.

No one seems to get this. No one seems to care. But I do. Because most people will quit around 1200 because they don’t see their dumb rating improving.
In reality, you’re probably much better than you realize.

If you had ever been a member of a real live chess club, you'd see things how they really are. If it's a normal, medium strong club, people below 1500 FIDE are no account players, so far as respect goes. They might play for the third team. They're never going to win a club championship or a club tournament. That's equivalent to maybe 1600 or more on here. So people 1600 or less haven't developed the necessary skills to be able to play well. And you're surprised 1200s don't improve. Wow.

CanadianHockeyFan2022

Feb 29, 2024

0

#232

A LOT of players cheat on chess.com and chess.com does nothing about it so do NOT take the games or the ratings seriously - I know that is easier said than done.