Glicko System flawed?

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EDIT (02/23/2011): Much of the information given below is outdated since I have lost intrest in improving my rating, and some of the reasons for this are mentioned in this post. Nevertheless I reached a 1461 rating a few days later. By beating lots of 1600s ...

I think there is a flaw in the Glicko system. It has no mechanism to count for fast rating progress. If you check my games you will see that I was at 1260 on the 24th of January and from then on it was all the way up beating 1400+ rated players most of the time. I think that Glicko makes you pay too much for your mistakes or rather your relaxing time Smile. If you check my stats you'll see that I was at 1386 on the 3rd of January and then I thought I would relax, and lost 100+ rating points in the process Smile.  I think that the Glicko rating system needs to be upgraded so that it can account for such phenomena. If I started playing at the 24th of January I'm pretty sure I would be over 1500 a couple days ago Frown. Not to mention that this slow adjusting system discourages, to a certain extent, the player from playing, and he may go to some other site or server Frown. GRUNTING: ... Chess.com ... taking care of so many features and forgeting ... the *obvious* ... like proper rating for its members ... [more grunting] ... what is Rench doing about it?

I hope Danny sees this and replies.

DISCLAIMER: THE ABOVE GRUNTING IS INTENTED FOR ENTERTAINING PURPOSES ONLY. SO IS THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS MR RENCH.

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I think I know the answer to the question ... It's the "interaction" between the dozen ratings in chess.com that impedes my "Live Chess - Standard" rating increase. Ridiculous!

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El_Senior wrote:

The glicko may or not be flawed, but it's equally flawed for everyone so don't worry about your rating being inaccurate. Your rating is no more or less inaccurate that anyone else.


 Wrong, because people tend to give different importance on the various rated chess.com activities. So life is playing hard games with me Frown.