Should I Worry About My ELO Raing?

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Avatar of JoshauMorris

So lately I've been noticing that I am always worrying about my rating and everytime I go under 1200 I close my account and start a new one. I took an ELO rating test and it said I was  1405, should I just worry about the game rather than the ELO rating or is worrying about the rating important. If I just keep playing will it eventually fix itself to the correct rating? I know I definitely should not be rated under 1200. Any suggestions?

Avatar of Lady-Jane

I'd suggest you not to worry about your rating too much.  Ratings are just an indicator of how you're playing.  I find that worrying about ratings take out a lot of the fun in chess.

Also, those elo rating tests usually aren't very accurate.  

(I can't really be the one to say anything, as my rating(except for correspondence chess) is below 1200.)

Avatar of 2mooroo

I hope you realize you can't compare ratings.  So your FIDE rating and your FICS rating and your chess.com rating will all be totally different from one another.  What would closing your account solve?  If you want your rating to rise then play better chess!  With that being said you shouldn't let your rating embarass or bother you.  What's the point?  There are too many things in the world to be an expert at all of them.  Chess is fun.  If you don't enjoy the game then you shouldn't waste your time here.  You'd be better off studying something that will make you a lot of $$$ (which chess won't).

Avatar of guilySU

Why close it everytime you drop? i understand that if you really feel like you made progress about understanding the game, you might want a "fresh start". Its nonsense, because if you got the knowledge of a 1900 rated player, and you are currently 600 rated you'll still fight youre way up, all the way to 1900.

If you lose againts , lets say, a 1050 rated player(and claim to be at least 1200-ish) you should just take a good look in the mirror. Study some more, and come back and show that youre are better. People like"us"wanna play, and win, like Capablance and Magnus but we do not want to study thoroughly. There are one main reasons why youre rating dropped: You are not as good as you think you are.

 

Sound harsh I know, but its the truth. I beated Shedder 1700 several times(lost more then I won though). So now I am a 1700 player? While after 1500 games I still hang around 1200 on chess.com. If you put all youre time and afford in study chess, you may conclude that this is just youre peak. If you didn't , you shouldnt complain and just play youre way up the scale.

Thats fraude, closing accounts for that reason.