rating incongruences
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lorenzo_tamiazzo
Jul 22, 2016
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I mainly play slow chess and am now around 1480. Occasionally when I get nosy have a look at my opponents stats and find that many of them around my rating have in the past been up to 400 stronger or had their best wins against much higher rated players. I understand it could have been down to many wins against low rated players but I see it often and the gap is drastic. Surely once you reach a certain level you can't just drop so drastically? I'm puzzled
lorenzo_tamiazzo wrote:
I mainly play slow chess and am now around 1480. Occasionally when I get nosy have a look at my opponents stats and find that many of them around my rating have in the past been up to 400 stronger or had their best wins against much higher rated players. I understand it could have been down to many wins against low rated players but I see it often and the gap is drastic. Surely once you reach a certain level you can't just drop so drastically? I'm puzzled
In correspondence chess, people playing a lot of games occasionally lose a lot of games by timing out. That can cause rapid drops in ratings. It also produces wins when there are large ratings mismatches.
I reckon turn based chess throws up some strange stats. As said, people play different numbers of games. People also explore different opening - as do I. Some people perhaps stay with what they know and play few games, perhaps trying harder against higher rated players. Perhaps 5-10% cheat. Many use the databases, which I don't while playing themed tournament, although this is allowed...
Over all, online chess is very useful but still not as real as OTB IMHO.