Rating Question

Hi guys, I have 3 questions to ask you. So....

1.Is 1062 a good rating for an 11 year old

2.What is the formula for figuring out the chess rating

3.What is a chess prodigys rating as an 11 year old

Thanks

Haadi1

All I know is from my experience. I tried chess out while I was in elementry school, but I didn't have the skill set (maturity, patience, analytical skills, foresight, etc.) to beat anyone who knew what they were doing. It wasn't until much later that I "rediscovered" chess. I give credit to anyone who can win at chess at the age of eleven.

The rating system is some complicated formula. The stronger your opponent, the more points you can go up if you win and the less points you lose if you lose. The weaker your opponent, the less points you get if you win and the more points you lose by losing. So by playing a really strong opponent, you have a lot more to gain and a lot less to lose, while by only playing weak opponents you have only a miniscule amount to gain and a lot to lose. At least, that's my understanding.

As for the prodigy stuff, if you are serious about chess now at eleven, and you stick with it and always try to better yourself as a player, there is no limit to how far you could go.

1) 1062 isn't good or bad, it just means you're a beginner, no matter the age this is how nearly everyone starts.  Some start lower, some higher, some stay at 1000 for a year, others not as long.  Your rating now has almost nothing to do with how good you're able to be in the future, like I said 1062 only means you're just starting out.  It might be good to read at least the first few quotes (click here) I give one below.

"The worst thing that ever happened to some juniors is the invention of the rating system.  Without it, they would just play whenever they felt like playing and would get a lot stronger, instead of protecting their rating, etc"

2) To see what it looks like click here.  And because it's complicated you can click here where it will do the calculation for you, just enter numbers.

3) Well even prodigies have to work hard to be very good, so it depends on how long that 11 year old has been playing.  The record for youngest grandmaster is Sergey Karjakin who made it at age 12.  Former world champion Emanuel Lasker didn't even learn until he was 11, other even later.  So a chess prodigy's rating at 11 years old would be anything between 500 and 2500.  The important thing to do if you want to improve is ignore your rating and focus on learning instead, also very important is to play (and lose) tons of games -- you can bet Karjakin and Lasker have lost thousands of games, any good player has, they just try to never make the same mistake twice.

hy guys

i am begginer to this chess.com, so how do increase your rating?

Win games.

But a better question would be "how do you get better at chess?"

my advice is not to think about rating at all. rating will come slowly but surely as you get better.

play a lot of games. you will lose a lot of games. learn from them. understand why you lost the games.

this is what I did

looked at videos. read books.

some chase rating like it was the holy grail of chess.