Why does Chess.com Have Deliberately Slow Rating Progression?

Theimmortalpatzer01 · 2021-03-13T20:00:42-08:00

Why are chess.com ratings so slow to catch up to true rating of stronger players? I've won 15 of 16 rapid games with 93.8% win ratio yet chess.com (as of this writing) has me rated 1267. Shouldn't chess.com have a better algorithm to get new players to a more accurate rating within the fir

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Martin_Stahl

Sep 25, 2024

#21

ZoiyG wrote:

How do I find 1500-2000 rated players to challenge on Chess.com? All I see are 1100-ish ratings, but I want something more challenging. I'm new here and don't have a rating yet, but I want to start off with a rating closer to my range.

Play in some Open Swiss tournaments. Until you get a rating you won't get many higher rated players otherwise.

M0lten_Knight

Sep 25, 2024

#22

#21 play some rated games, if you’re 1500-2000 you’ll start playing them, if you’re not you’ll start playing people around your rating whatever that may be e