+100 or if I enter a tournament theres no telling
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I try and play +100 to +150.
As chessmaster102 says, in a tournament no telling.
Right now I have games about 80 or 90 below me to almost 500 above me.
I just play the standard things (-300/+300)
Playing stronger opponents is usually good, I think most people will try to play slightly stronger opponents (for example -150/+300 or -50/+200)
I myself struggle against lower rated players mostly, I'm 2100 otb and I hate playing 1600-1900's. I know I should be stronger in a lot of positions, but irl I get a lot of pretty simple positions, where my opponents good moves are obvious.
I have a teammate with 2200 and against higher rated opponents we actually perform about the same (against FM/IM/GM). Main difference is that he just destroys <2000 and I really struggle. He'd score 9/10 and I'd get 6,5/10.
So, that's my reason for playing in the standard range.
DeweyOxberger wrote:
It's so annoying when people only want to play people rated higher than themselves. If we all did that that no one could play anyone! I play anyone (who's honest and has some good sportsmanship).
I play anyone who wants to play me. See my page, I have a game against someone 300 points below me. (One of my groups has a tournament that lower players challenge higher players.)
When I challenge, I try and challenge higher players, but I have never, to my knowledge, turned down a lower rated player unless I am at the limit of my games (I try and keep them under 15).
So just a question I was thinking about. For all of you guys who play live chess/online cess whatever you want to call it do you tend to play people with a nearish rating to yours (-50 +50) or do you play people a lot harder then you (+200 min) or a lot softer (-100). Just curious, I play a mixture and win and lose against all, but what can you do..