Alter the rating range on the search you send out to lower rateds if you really want.
By the way, I'm guessing you will lose at least one game at some point. So why not play some 1500s? You might be better than you think, or otherwise you might learn a bit and become a better player ;)
it is considered CHEATING to lose purposly
Thanks, international chess police
it is considered CHEATING to lose purposly
Thanks, international chess police
haha! Well I want to help make chess.com the best it can possibly be!
Your rating will stabilize where it needs to be. And if losing bothers you that bad, you probably need to find something else to do with your free time, as losing just goes with the turf in chess.
The same thing happened to me. I won my first 9 games and got to almost 1600 and then went on a big losing streak. Now I'm settling between 1300 and 1400, but I intend to improve my game and get back up there again!
Your rating will stabilize where it needs to be. And if losing bothers you that bad, you probably need to find something else to do with your free time, as losing just goes with the turf in chess.
Lol, yes. Failure is the first step to success.
And you are the first person I have ever heard of complaining that their rating is too high.
The chess rating (be it federation, online or whatever) is a number that merely tracks your playing strength. In other words, if you've played N games ... where N is a sufficiently high enough number, this magical "rating" will do an increasingly better job of reflecting your true chess playing strength RELATIVE to the group (Federation, Chess.com etc.) you're playing in.
So don't worry too much ... play enough games and chess.com will place you where you *are*.
just keep playing. even the best players lose sometimes. you can't improve if you don't continue playing.
besides, your rating on here has no effect on your OTB rating.
I'll have to get back to you on that one. At present, having too high a rating is not an issue. However, if my rating does get too high, I will be one of the first to make a public statement. Then, perhaps better players will help me out with that pesky winning.
If your opponents' ranks go up after you started the game, your rating will still change the same amount as if they didn't improve. So its as if you played two 1300 people, your rating is not unfairly inflated.
Note that you can't really compare live ratings to turn based ratings. Turn based ratings are almost always higher. My turn based is almost 1700, my live is only almost 1500.
playing those "higherranked" players are the best way to improve:) if you play good players you eventually adjust to them and catch up if you work on learning from the games but if you play against people lower rated then you they drag you down to their level:P
If you don't lose, your rating will never drop. Get over it and play some higher-ranked players. it's better for your game anyway.
Hell my rating shot up to 1667 when I started, and now it is below 1500! If your rating is too high, it will drop like a bullet the first game you lose against a low-rated player, because you are a new player. (ratings change faster for new players).
As I understand it, when you've only played a couple of games, each game makes a fairly large adjustment in your rating. Once you've played more games, there is more data to work with, and any one game will have a smaller effect, regardless of whether you win or lose.
I'd recommend you just keep playing, primarily against opponents with ratings similar to yours. If your rating really is higher than you should be, that will lead to losses, and your rating will drop. (Fairly fast, I'd assume since you have played few games.) On the other hand, if you are winning against those players, then your rating will go up - because you are better than you think you are.
Go to on-line chess - then players. Here you can see everyone on chess.com. Find the players in your ideal rating range and challenge them.
Thank you for your comments.
It is best to be fairly rated, neither over rated nor under rated. Playing against players that are grossly better than I am does not lead to learning: as a professor and teacher, I know that students in the wrong class become frustrated either because the material is too easy and they do not learn or the material is too advanced and they do not have the foundations to learn.
I believe the same to be true with chess. In fact there is considerable evidence of this when players pick up books too advanced for their skill levels.I also know that players who always lose because their skill level is not commensurate with their opponents usually do not stay with chess long.
It is unlikely that I would leave chess because my rating is too high. But I do regard it as an obstacle to my progress in regaining my former skill levels that I had forty years ago. Playing against players whose mistakes I barely can see during analysis let alone in a game situation is not conducive to learning and does not improve my game, especially when they clobber me for blunders that I can not recognize that I have made.
I have a lot to still learn and my "board sight" still needs considerable training. I can do this best playing at the "my level" or players slightly above my level.
But I do appreciate the comments made and I will guarantee any opponent I face: I will play the best I can to whip your sorry ... (Oops, not suppose to say that in a gentle game!) But you will face an earnest opponent if not skilled.
The easy answer is lose!
I have played but two games on the "turn based" system. Unfortunately I won both of them. When I started playing one of the opponents, their rating was ~1300 where I was. But then they shot to 1588 and now I have this God Awful rating of 1558. I know that my rating should not be higher than about 1250 give or take.
Now I will be playing people that I have no hope of being competitive with. But I don't like losing! So how do I play people that I am competitive with?