RonaldJosephCote wrote:
Are you a REAL cellomaster?
I can play violin
Play a computer with rating?
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Aug 9, 2018
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madratter7 wrote:
People with higher ratings around here tend to be better players. But I guarantee rating manipulation happens here.
The site is great for playing chess, learning, etc. But it should be enjoyed for what it is. You have to take the ratings, especially in individual cases with a large grain of salt.
I'll give you an example. For various reasons, the rapid ratings here are crazy. There are GMs that have rapid ratings only in the 2000-2100 range. There are reasons for that, and it isn't that the GMs are weak.
If you want a real rating, go play OTB.
GM's have low rapid ratings because they never play rapid. There isn't enough high level players playing rapid time controls, so that there could be 3000 rated GMs. The smaller the pool of the players, the lower the highest rated player is. Most titled players play only blitz and bullet, and there the ratings at the top are much higher.
Well without going into specifics since I don't want this thread to get locked, I will say that I have watched GMs play rapid here, and I have watched the players they are playing against get banned the next couple of days. So that isn't the only reason.
Well,
you have my congratulations Mr Cellomaster. Your a legit musician.
Julliard is the toughest music school in the country. I'm more of a Berklee person myself. 
Maybe not on the exact topic, but first time trying to practice against chess.com computer and very pleased with the settings options provided. But selecting a 1200 rated computer as opponent, I am very surprised at how bad it plays in the middle and end game-- it's just walking into simple discovered attacks and pins that my human 950 and 1000 rated opponents would never ever give me so readily.
You could play me?