How much you win or lose depends on the rating of your opponent.
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Dec 18, 2012
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If you played players who had a higher rating than you, you would see the opposite effect. ;)
It depends on the rating of your opponent, if you want you can play with higher rated player to win a lot of points.
Totally agree with furtiveking.,i am rated 1350 and prefer to play 1500+ players were i get 10+ points for a win and maybe 3pts for a draw. Downside is i win probably 1 out of 4 games so my rating is not changing much. Upside is i am learning alot more against the higher rated players and my game on the whole is improving vastly..!
I can normally thrash anyone under 1200.,get an easy 3pts.,but learn nothing.! You need to look at the bigger picture my friend.,good luck 
Dec 18, 2012
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furtiveking wrote:
If you played players who had a higher rating than you, you would see the opposite effect. ;)
If you played players who had a higher rating than you [and beat them] you would see the opposite effect! 
lawr3nc3b wrote:
Totally agree with furtiveking.,i am rated 1350 and prefer to play 1500+ players were i get 10+ points for a win and maybe 3pts for a draw. Downside is i win probably 1 out of 4 games so my rating is not changing much. Upside is i am learning alot more against the higher rated players and my game on the whole is improving vastly..!
I can normally thrash anyone under 1200.,get an easy 3pts.,but learn nothing.! You need to look at the bigger picture my friend.,good luck
Start getting serious with Chess and Play the Machines.
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DrSpudnik wrote:
furtiveking wrote:
If you played players who had a higher rating than you, you would see the opposite effect. ;)
If you played players who had a higher rating than you [and beat them] you would see the opposite effect!
You 're a Tactician.
Well you're expected to score EA given rating A and rating B.
And SA is what you actually do (win=1, draw=0.5 loss=0). Then your new rating (prime) is updated as follows. K is just some constant (around 32).
That's what you hate, not this site 
If u hate chess.com rating system go play on real tournament.
waffllemaster wrote:
Well you're expected to score EA given rating A and rating B.
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But, doesn't this forumla suggest that when Rb = Ra, Ea = Eb = 1? That would mean that when you play someone with the same rating as you, you both are expected to win.
Amiroven wrote:
i hate this website ....
Goodbye.
E=mc^2
Don't hate the player, hate the game website.
AlexMirkin wrote:
waffllemaster wrote:
Well you're expected to score EA given rating A and rating B.
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But, doesn't this forumla suggest that when Rb = Ra, Ea = Eb = 1? That would mean that when you play someone with the same rating as you, you both are expected to win.
Anything to the power of zero is 1. So the expected score when ratings are equal is 1/2, which is intuitive.
waffllemaster wrote:
AlexMirkin wrote:
waffllemaster wrote:
Well you're expected to score EA given rating A and rating B.
"
But, doesn't this forumla suggest that when Rb = Ra, Ea = Eb = 1? That would mean that when you play someone with the same rating as you, you both are expected to win.
Anything to the power of zero is 1. So the expected score when ratings are equal is 1/2, which is intuitive.
Oops! You're clearly right, I just got sloppy. Thanks.
Amiroven wrote:
i hate this website...
Go cry about it.
thx guys for your comments , i have found today that i can control the rates of my opponents ...so i can choose with who i play ... i will do as most of you has said ....thanks alot...im still new here..just 101 games i played...and trying new opening every 25 game to find out all about it...thx guys again
i hate this website, everytime i win...i get 5 points ...4 points..8 points...when i lose ..i lose alot..-11 ..-12..-15 ....what the hell is that??? even for draw i lose points !!!