hhnngg1 wrote:
If you only play weaker opponents, it's a lot easier to lose rating points than gain them.
If you only play weaker opponents, it's a lot easier to lose rating points than gain them.
Yeah. If you want to pump your rating, then definitely better to never play people rated lower than you.
Especially if you want to set a new highest rating stat. You find someone rated a little (or a lot) higher who is having a bad day, and you get them to rematch, and that's when you can really artificially inflate your rating.
I can only imagine playing a lot of lower rated players would be a bad idea. Win streaks are negated by 1 loss.
the average rating is 1100, and I think a great of people do only play a few games, a win & several loses and they give up.
I think many people would fall further in rating and go much lower if they kept playing. so I don't think think you can conclude that the average beginner is anywhere near 1100 in chess.com blitz rating.
In this conversation it is easy to forget that rating is a performance and NOT a strength- and as such the Time Control means everything.
1500-1600 might be Intermediate in uscf OTB, but in chess.com blitz- its advanced imho.
Yeah, overall it's advanced.
Perception of it depends on who you associate with. A bunch of GMs will think of those ridiculous 2300 players, who have such little experience and haven't done serious work for example. But to a beginner, reading a book is already serious work for a game.
Some people talk about ratings without realizing their biased point of view. Specifically that, in general, players 50 to 100 points below you "get it" so to speak. They understand the essentials from your point of view. Players below that are missing something fundamental. Players ~200 points above can consistently do the things you struggle doing well. Players ~400 points above are too good to understand. A sort of horizon effect.
So 2000 says 1800 players don't really get it yet
and 2800 say 2600 players don't get it.
A few years ago I recall Carlsen saying Wesely So, rated 2700 at the time, wasn't very good. All he knew according to Carlsen was tactics and had some opening prep.