Rating - amongst us who are below 1500. Is that important?
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Jan 14, 2018
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This sounds like a good approach! I like daily chess, taking the time for the moves. Doing so I will remember better what I thought during the game, so the analysis is more interesting.
ossilov wrote:
I have been striving to get better in chess. I think the breakthrough came when I no longer thought so hard about my rating. I play and I read - and my rating goes up and down. My goal is to learn and getting better. Whenever I lose, I go through an analyse of the game - and learn a lot.
According to the site's STATS, you're in approxmately the 90th percentile of Daily Players.
https://www.chess.com/stats/daily/ossilov
On balance, you've already "made it," and 90 percent of the Daily players are "weaker" than you. So enjoy the limelight, and improve at your own pace.
Teach those grandchildren how to play. They will have fond memories of your chess time together. 
Jan 16, 2018
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I have a similar rating in Daily Chess, 1531, 91.6%. I even believe that I can get better soon, as most part of my points I got playing "Daily Chess-blitz", a lot of games at the same time, not using the board to analyse (without engine, of course). Now I am playing one or two games at the same time, spending much more time at each move. This makes me improve and pushes up my rating (slowly, but constantly).
No, I don't think it is important. In fact, I don't even think it is important if you're above 1500 unless you depend it for some kind of income/profession (then, it is important even if below 1500).
As a hobby, just play it and have fun... and be thankful that chess is such an inexpensive hobby!
My rating is most of the time floating between 1400 and 1550
When I follow my own single rule it's easy to reach 1500, but unfortunately I dont take the time to do so! 
My rule and advise; Before making a new move, play back the last 3 moves to get the situation in your head again!
Goodluck and have fun!
As I posted in another thread, elo fluctuates like crazy. I was 1463 a few days back dropped to under 1300 and back over 1400. In a few days.
Elo depends on how well you are playing. Some days you just play better chess. Elo is a reflection more of form than ability.
Once you get to a peak elo and then drop below it just shows that you are underperforming, and not the ability as a player.
'Good' is relative isn't it.
A 1200 rating makes you significantly stronger than the average 'chess player', who is someone who knows the rules and has played a few games with their friends.
A 2000 rating makes you a chess deity compared to this average player. But still a complete fish compared to the big boys.
By this reasoning, it could be argued that anyone who plays competitive chess regularly is a 'strong' player, as long as you're using a broad definition of strong.
On blitz I am usually around 1800-2000, on standard I am 1900, what you must understand is that we are not machines, even if I am a 1900 player there are going to be days that I can play like a 1700 and days that I can play like a 2000, when you improve that think that I am talking about also improves and in that moment you improve your ELO, there is going to be a day that even if you are in a really bad day you cant play bellow certain rating and thats when your rating goes up, on my worst day I can be 1800 on blitz here but I play other day and its normal that I improve 100 points in one day, after a lot of study a day is going to come in which my worst day I will play as a 2000, and in that day I am going to have from 2000 to 2100 or something like that
After being stuck around 1450 for years, reaching 1500 is my eternal quest! It's really the reason why I keep playing chess... I've often thought-seriously: if I would ever reach 1600 I would stop playing chess. I noticed with my opponents there's a clear border around 1550, between good players and average players like me...Beyond 1550 starts a completely different level in understanding chess...I would love to be able to say "yes, I'm good at chess" 
Feb 26, 2018
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I went up from 1534 to 1577. I hope to go on improving to reach my highest rating (1594) and afterwards try to crack the 1650. 1577 is 94.1%. The next 2 or 3 % will be though, I guess.
Feb 26, 2018
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Dear Frode70: I am a so called "strong" player (at my level), but I keep on making blunders. Recently I dropped from 1489 to 1479 because I made THREE blunders in a row in a game I should have won. But does it matter? I love chess, and I can surely say that I am getting better all the time. But then I have my blunders to deal with 
Feb 26, 2018
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#13
Online ratings don't mean squat anyway.
There's no way that I'm close to 2200 playing strength in real life.
Feb 26, 2018
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Dear blueemu: Maybe online ratings do not mean so much. But we all are playing here, and it feels good when you play good and improve your rating
I just started playing a few months ago, not even close to your ranking but I still enjoy chess and I found that until my skill level gets better I keep my seek at about 100 above or below. Little by little it’s going up, this I have had to do on my own. Nobody taught me chess, so maybe in another while I will hit 1000. To most people here that’s nothing but to me it’s little individual goals that make it exciting. Who know where I will be in a year
No matter what my rating is my mom still says I’m a good person and that she loves.
Ok some things are are inevitable, we are human and prone to aberration, to put that in perspective, we will make mistakes, we cannot help but make mistakes, they are inevitable. The trick is to minimise their magnitude, obviously failing to recognise we are getting mated is greater than hanging our queen which is greater than hanging our knight which is greater than losing a pawn which is greater than making a slightly passive move.
Since kaynight is not here, I must ask you, how it was, if you have been on the bevvy again?
I have been striving to get better in chess. I think the breakthrough came when I no longer thought so hard about my rating. I play and I read - and my rating goes up and down. My goal is to learn and getting better. Whenever I lose, I go through an analyse of the game - and learn a lot.