my inability to beat low rated chess players.

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aem1
Hello everyone.
aem1

aem1 wrote:

Hello everyone.

I want to talk about the fact that I seem unable to beat lower rated chess players on chess.com. my fide rating is 1600 and I am struggling to beat 1200 players on blitz online. I have only a standard rating. could this be that I am a terrible blitz player? how can I improve? I MUST be able to beat 1000 players and yet I don't..

bellwater99

dont worry about it. ratings on chess.com is different than fide

AIM-AceMove

Play 100+ games and then come back and only then make a conclusion.

There is huge difference between a player rated 1100 with 300 games and a player rated 1100 with 3 000 games. The latter is much better and can happen to beat anyone up to 300 points higher for example, but he stays for some reason at that level. Often i see no difference when i play 1600 rated and against 1300 rated but with a lot of experience. Also lets say 1300 rated player plays only one openning system and it's pretty bad at anything else, but if it happens to play his game his skills will be higher than what his rating suggest and many other examples.

Also don't forget the fact chesscom pool of players is greatest. That means a lot of weak and a lot of strong players with all kinds of mixed ratings.