why does it feel like lower ratings are actually way better then their ratings

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Avatar of noobsherrif

bro like i will be fignting a 500 and then look at our game review  to see the game rating to be 1200. like what, so ur telling me i can fight with people that have either 100 game ratring or 1200+ game rating like bro what where is the skill based matchmaking there

Avatar of Winston1234e

Same but I'm on the other end 300 and the computer rates me ~900

Avatar of chesswlh4
Same bro I’m 250 and I’m constantly rated like 500-900
Avatar of chesswlh4
Like it’s actually harder than people think to climb
Avatar of KeSetoKaiba

The game review estimate of "played like" is what is untrue. That was intended to estimate performance rating for the game, but that's surprisingly difficult to estimate and the chess.com formula for it tends to inflate the ratings. I almost never pay attention to the "played like" ratings and when I do notice it, like 99% of the time, it's just me smiling and laughing at it being inflated.

Just play your best and keep the focus more on learning and improving, rather than rating. If you keep getting better at chess, then long-term your rating will go up and catch up with your actual ability. happy.png

Avatar of Ethan_Brollier

The thing that makes low-rated players is their inconsistency. If you played 20 moves at a 1200 rating and 5 moves at a 200 level, the computer gives you a game rating of “1000”. The odds that you’re actually 1000 are pretty low, as otherwise you’d play 20 moves at a 1600 level and 5 at a 600 level and it would rate you “1400” and you’d be upset that you’re lower rated than game analysis is rating your games. Chess is a game in which a singular blunder can instantly lose a drawn game, so get consistent about not blundering.