Why is My Rating So Low?

If someone could go into my games and tell me, that would be great. I really would like to break 1800 or even 1900. Thank you.

I don't mean this to be rude at all but how is your daily rating 1800 when you have many losses to 1400 and 1500 players? I only looked at part of one game but your moves lack 'pizzazz'. It's like you're trying to play boring, by the book chess without understanding why any move is or should be played. Aside from your moves being one move threats and passive, you don't seem to ever have a plan. Why play Bh6 just to exchange it off for the knight? It could have done that from Bc1. Why didn't you defend your f2 pawn? Why did you play c3 instead of going for D5 after the bishop pin? There's lots of things but it's tough to explain on mobile. No 1800 should ever be losing to a 1500 or 1600. You need to maintain game tension, improve your position, give no space away, 1500-1600 players know elementary theory but can't hold it for long. The key is to improve your position. Sorry for the rant

By the way I'm talking about your most recent loss and I think your rating is actually far higher than your ability right now

Sorry if any of that seemed rude. Didn't mean it to. Just woke up

I am not sure his Online Chess rating of 1800 is real.  When I look at his profile, his stats show no Online Chess games played.  His Live Chess - Standard rating of 1565 is probably representative of his playing strength.

 

v3 of the site and the app let you choose a strength when joining. I believe 1800 is the highest. So if no games are played in a format the rating will show 1800 in that instance.

 

I think there are 5 or 6 levels.

Yeah I noticed that afterwards.

Wait so out of all the chess levels, he chose himself to be the maximum one?

He's up to snuff

You are just terrible in general. Improve everything.

 

It shouldn't impact it much at all and if someone is close to correct they will converge to a more accurate rating anyway.

 

The site uses Glicko and RD values. The player has a high RD and that should prevent the choice from putting too much pressure on the pool in any direction. 

 

What you might see is a shift in the averages when people only come on and play a few games. A few months ago I looked at ratings of new players and the vast majority were not choosing the higher levels.

Letting players pick their own rating shoud REDUCE the inaccuracy of online rating by eliminating the RD roller coaster that players are accustomed to experiencing.

Your Rating Is So Low Because Your Skill Is Low

post some of your games with your own analysis, is the easiest way to see what's going on in your game.

eh!? what's that? peraphs do you hate me? If you want I can show a bunch of games where I lost.  (one of them is 1350 in online chess and 2150 or so in bullet lol). but loosing happen.

That's plain wrong, it is expected that a 1600 player would win against a 1800 from time to time. Even though it doesn't actually apply here, that statement kinda discreted your opinion from me. There's also the way that you act like you completely figured this person's playstyle when you just watched one game.

Yes I revise my statement about 1800 players losing to 1600 players. What I was looking at was the game history and seeing all these losses to 1400,1500 and 1600 players so I may have over generalized. Any rating can beat any rating with good enough chess.

if u play a lot of games against someone 200 pts lower than u, u should get 75% of the pts

that's like the definition of rating

that's for elo rating not sure if it still work here. peraphs the rating here may change a lot, it's not so unusual seeing people going up and down even 300 points expecially in online games. 

by the way 75% may be 50% victories and 50% draws.

Is there anything like the percentage of lost games in accordance with the percentage of blunders, or the percentage of good games ending up with a blunder on your side?