Hating it is probably worse.
Is liking your rating bad?
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If you like your rating, then its more likely that you will keep that rating than if you hate it.
Liking your rating is fine if your rating is likable.
Danconqueror wrote:
If you like your rating, then its more likely that you will keep that rating than if you hate it.
Not necessarily. You'd still know that you'd like it if it were higher. If you hate it and it doesn't go up, you're more likely to quit.
I've been trying to get my rating to land on a good year for a while now, to no avail... it's lately been either just a little bit too high, leaving it in the near future, or just a little bit too low, leaving it in years I don't care about... I think the closest I've gotten from the low side was 1980 and the closest I've gotten from the high side was 2015...
Well, I did get 2007 once, but that's a pretty yucky year...
It's only bad if you focus on things that improve your rating and don't improve your chess. The way I see it:
- I want to get better at chess
- If I get better at chess, my rating will go up
- But - it's a fallacy to then say "hey my rating went up so I must be getting better.
It's a good idea to take a long term approach to your chess. If you think that a part of your game needs work, then work on it. It may end up costing you in the short term some rating points, but it's important to your chess development. Also, you should avoid like the plague working on things that have nothing to do with chess, but help you gain rating points. Things such as playing 1 min chess, trying to game the timeout system or the vacation system, using computer assistance.
All I read into my rating is how good I'm currently rated, compared to the rest of the chess world.
i tend to see a correlation with my rating and how i'm playing. i like when i get higher--right now i'm a low 1600 (which is pretty high for me) and i am playing better than i have over the previous few weeks. so that's good. but i'm not getting comfy. i'd like to be a mid to high 1600 in a week if i can. and then 1700s eventually. i hope it's possible and i'm working to make it so.
hahaha im a 537
Liking rating wasn't that bad. Not if that's not much.
Like it when i play good and win.
Hate it when i play bad and lose.
Like it when i play bad and win.
Hate it when i play good and lose.
I try to ignore my rating and focus on my play during the game. So really we only think about it when we look at it. And that is when we are not playing. A 1500 is stronger or weaker depending on where they live as they most likely started playing people in their area first before playing online.
mowque wrote:
We often hear people go on about how liking your rating is short-sighted or greedy or missing the point of chess. Does everyone agree to this? I happen to like my rating.
1458 was a good year. Pius II was elected Pope... an interesting character, well known (at the time) for his erotic writings. That's a somewhat unconventional side-line for a Pope.
Pope Alexander VI epitomizes this corruption. Born as Rodrigo Borgia in Spain in 1431, he was elected Pope in 1492, an event that spawned rumors that he had spent a considerable fortune bribing the appropriate Cardinals to assure his success.
The new Pope loved the good life. He sired at least twelve children through a number of mistresses.
My rating is currently 1824. I looked and like most that Jacques-Louis David painted "Mars disarmed by Venus" in that year. But when I transfer 1824 in the massonic calendar it becomes 5823, which I like better..
It has now been Jacked.
My personal experience has been to ignore my rating completely. I used to be transfixed on my "1550" rating, or something around there. I was so nervous it would drop that I played extremely passively, and I lost many games anyway. Once I made the decision to only check my rating every 6 months, I focused more on studying and less time on my rating. I am now rated 1860 USCF and I don't care about my rating! If I lose, who cares? If I win, that's great. I'm focused on studying and learning more. Hope this helps!
My rating just increased 30 points because my opponent, (with a higher rating than mine) made a silly blunder. I played what I felt was a solid game, but apart from 1 move, so did my opponent. It only takes 1 bad move to throw a game.
So am I really proud of the increase? Not really. If you win and lose a lot of games, and 6 months later you're still around the same rating, those little jumps up don't matter. Go through the videos on this and other websites. Take advise from those stronger than your self. Get a mentor maybe. Post your games and get feedback in the "Game Analysis" section of the forums. Make a goal to increase your rating by 100-200 points every 3-12 months or so. (The amount and time frame can only be determined by you.)
It's not the 30 point 1 game increase, but the long term increase of a substantially higher amount that you should be proud of. For it's that type of increase that lets you know you are improving.
Estragon wrote:
... my old mentor eschewed ratings at all times, saying "You need to be better than your last loss, and to understand you aren't as good as your last win, any other measure is just a fantasy."
You had a wise mentor, Estragon!
We often hear people go on about how liking your rating is short-sighted or greedy or missing the point of chess. Does everyone agree to this? I happen to like my rating.