Lost 96 rating points for nothing!

                                The difference a day made

I started the day with a rating of 2394. A really hard work to get there. Especially the last 150 points.-

Today I saw in a game ,- which had already over 70 moves,- a drawoffer of my opponent. I had to accept. 48 points gone! Made a new rating of 2346. Not such a big loss!-

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So it was a tournament game and the rematch started automatically. I had several reasons for resigning the new game. One reason was the reduction of  the number of my games. I resigned without making a move and after a few seconds saw with astonishment a new rating behind my nickname: 2250

First I could not believe it. Normally you resign a game at the beginning it doesn`t touch your ratings.  Therefore I wrote to chess. com and asked about it- The correctness of rating loss  was confirmed. Tournament games ( not others) are counted , whether you made a move or not.-

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And what can we learn from this:

Do not play  for your ratings, but for having fun with your games

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Your points may go soon and unexpectingly down, but your fun with that game will not do! If fun it is your true reason for playing chess

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Edit:

Bytheway, it would be from interest for me, why there is made such a difference of rating adjustment . I cannot see any sense in it, because both goes into the same rating.

Why can I loose in a not played tournament game almost 100 points and haven`t got in other games, where my opponents resigned immidiately, no points?-

OK, I know I've said this a hundred times before, but here goes:

Your rating ("rating") is not a number!  It's a position on a surface.  The surface looks a lot like a normal distribution, or what is sometimes called a "bell curve".  If you go up (towards the right side of the curve), in general, your rating should go up, but not necessarily!  There are many variables that determine your position on the curve, and they don't always stay the same from day-to-day.

A more accurate assessment of your skill level might be rank, which would show your position on the curve relative to the other players in the population.  Did you go up or down relative to everyone else?  Do you feel like you're playing worse Chess now?

The bottom line:  Chess.com uses the Glicko system, which has it's faults, but speaking in purely mathematical terms, it's much a much better indicator of relative strength compared to other systems, such as (pure) Elo.  In comparison to USCF or FIDE ratings, keep in mind that tournament-based ratings need to assess the problems of "sandbagging" (which is a real concern) as well as rewarding high-level players for play based purely on event performance.  Despite any system's shortcomings (since a player's true strength can never be known, only modeled), you will find that your rating here (Glicko) will be much more useful to you as a guide to your Chess progress.

Indeed, Heinrich... It's fun that matter! Like your advice to me in my first few weeks here when I want to reach 2000..

I still remember... You said, "enjoy the process to get there, and not merely focus to the destination (the over 2000 ratings)"..

Well, I took the advice.. and now even though I haven't reached my target, I still enjoy playing here without worry to much about my ratings..

I will probably never, ever, reach a rating that high. I will, of course, try to win my games. But if I lose it's no big deal. I have learned much from my errors. When I first entered chess.com, it took me 8 games before my first win. Now I win about 1 in every 3. My rating is climbing slowly, drops a bit, then climbs up a bit further. But my primary pleasure is just playing the game and meeting people.

Heinrich, I remember when as a matter of honor and doing the right thing, (because you were not cheating), but wanted to do the right thing for your own reasons, you asked Chess.com to take your rating and let you start from the begining of 1100 rating. You went from well over 2000 to 1100 instantly, much to my amazement you were not moved, just started playing again.  Within a few weeks and months you were over 2000 again, not an easy task, just an honorable one.  I am sorry that you lost so many points so easily, and perhaps unjustly, but I know you will persevere and regain them, just as you did before.  Be blessed bro with it all!  :)