My Rating reset and dropped 600 points...

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Can someone tell me why my rating dropped by 600 points back to the "start" rating of 1200?  I'd last played "live chess" in March and then played a couple of games a few days ago and noticed my rating had reset for some reason.

Erik, if you're out there is there anything you can do about this?

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polydiatonic wrote:

Can someone tell me why my rating dropped by 600 points back to the "start" rating of 1200?  I'd last played "live chess" in March and then played a couple of games a few days ago and noticed my rating had reset for some reason.

Erik, if you're out there is there anything you can do about this?


See  http://support.chess.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=681.

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TadDude wrote:
polydiatonic wrote:

Can someone tell me why my rating dropped by 600 points back to the "start" rating of 1200?  I'd last played "live chess" in March and then played a couple of games a few days ago and noticed my rating had reset for some reason.

Erik, if you're out there is there anything you can do about this?


See  http://support.chess.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=681.


Oh, I see what happened.  Thanks, I tried playing a game under 3 minutes and I hadn't done that b4 so it gave me the default rating.  When I went back to a slower time control my rating was back to normal.