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Wolfordwv1968

From 1000 to 1400 is virtually like playing a 400+ field of the same strength players.

you stand as good a chance to lose to one as the another.

if you are unlucky enough to have a strength between 1000 - 1400 you suffer through a hellish fight to get from bottom to top. And between the ratings not being accurate and unfair playing practices; the site is extremely fortunate that they have this chess monopoly.

HangingPiecesChomper

go look at the accuracy between 200s and 2400s on this site. around 60-70%, there's no difference.

I think this site is rigged to keep some people up and others down in rating.

nklristic
Wolfordwv1968 wrote:

From 1000 to 1400 is virtually like playing a 400+ field of the same strength players.

you stand as good a chance to lose to one as the another.

if you are unlucky enough to have a strength between 1000 - 1400 you suffer through a hellish fight to get from bottom to top. And between the ratings not being accurate and unfair playing practices; the site is extremely fortunate that they have this chess monopoly.

Ok, let's check that.

I will take blitz as an example, as that is what you have been playing recently.

1 000 - 1 100 opponents: 794 W - 634 L

1 300 - 1 400 opponents: 482 W - 903 L

There is a world of difference in your results.

So it is obviously not correct. What happened is that you have recency bias. You have lost a lot of rating and you've lost some games recently to lower rated people so you have this impression.