100% agreed with Ben-Lui. All the player must received the boost at the same time.
huge rating jump
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Scannerman. The idea is that the new rating seem to be closer that FIDE or USCF rating. Like all your opponent arround your rating receive the same 150 points, for people like you and me, there no real difference. Only change a little if we play with people with more than actual rating 1800 (1600 pre-boost), but only a little.
This is ridiculous. My rating's gone up 17 points through 2 extremely easy wins against 1600+ players with Blitz ratings of 1100. Seems like I could now play the whole night, allowing games to abort if I see before the 1st move that my opponent is actually a bona fide former 1600+ player, and then be on 1750 tomorrow morning, then truthfully complain that my boost hasn't come yet, and be rewarded with a rating of maybe 2000+. That would be bug using of the highest order, and I'm not going to do it; but there'll be plenty who will see it as manna from heaven and have a field day with their ratings.
Chess.com. you've f****ed up on this one.
Be nice if powers-that-be posted some info about this!
Funny, they've been silent for a while. And I just got my bonus of +200, which I don't even want; I feel kind of cheated.
And am I really now 400 points better at Standard than at Blitz? Doesn't feel right somehow, but what the hell, they're just meaningless numbers here.
So this was a rating deflation bug introduced years ago and now its fixed ? Am I getting this right ?
Sooooo.... if you have known about it for such a long time, how comes you decided to do this rather.... spontanous, UNANNOUNCED fix right now ?
Would it have been that bad to have the players wait one more day for it so you had time to announce it ?
This surely could have looked a lot more professional and it might have prevented your staff team getting flooded with "bug reports" over this ?
Scannerman wrote:
Im confused. Is the new rating more true to my strength? Or is my rating boost food for stronger players to gain more rating points, iv played over 600 games and think that my old rating was pretty accurate, i also feel some what cheated, i had a goal to reach 1500 now im a few games away from that which makes my goal worthless.
Change your goal to 1650.
SmyslovFan wrote:
What a lot of people aren't getting is that there was a logjam of players in the 1850-2150 range. What this will do is open it up so that there will be a real difference between players. Instead of all the top players crammed into a 300 point range, they are now spread over a range from 2000-2750.
This will actually make the ratings more accurate in the long run.
How is it possible to have a "logjam" of players of different abilities? Distribute them? That's what the rating system does. If it couldn't do it then, then they'll just fall back into what it was over time.
monitor wrote:
Ignoring the bug in which a few players lost points (which we plan to have resolved soon) all players have increased in rating, it shouldn't matter that some players are slightly unevenly matched because once everybody plays each other they will regain the rating that they deserve, except it will be +150-300 higher than before.
Sred that diagram doesn't update immediately, it's not meant for recording such rapid heavy changes, but it will update soon.
my rating didnt go up :(
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Scottrf wrote:
The thing is, it's the wrong goal.
Ratings are designed to compare you across the pool they are for. They aren't designed to compare with other ratings or pools of players.
They are making them less accurate for their purpose so they can be more closely aligned with another pool.
That is a temporary concern. The rating pool will regain its accuracy to itself in short measure after games are played.
While I can relate to the reasons behind this -- you want a rating scale that is understood and comparable with other rating scales, this is not right.
Ratings are the e-peen of chess. People fight tooth and nail to get their ratings up, competing with their friends. Some even go so far as to cheat with engines just to get their rating up. When chess players meet and there is no reliable rating to compare them -- the question has the last years started to be "so, what's your chess com?". I've seen tournament several sign-up forms asking for chess.com ratings!
For instance, some people I "compete" with (all about 1600-1800 FIDE), are now like 2200-2300s! How can I ever beat that? They won't play a game now. They won. :-(
one of the staff members posted a forum topic that there willbe an inflation in the standard rating
Just force everyone at chess.com to turn over the FIDE/USCF ID and link their rating to their real rating. You don't gain/lose any points here, it just reflects your real rating. Problem solved.
SilentKnighte5 wrote:
Just force everyone at chess.com to turn over the FIDE/USCF ID and link their rating to their real rating. You don't gain/lose any points here, it just reflects your real rating. Problem solved.
Most people do not have a FIDE or USCF rating.
Oct 22, 2014
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#156
I should have offered some coaching where I guarantee a rating improvement of 200 after only one day. That would have been a nice idea :D
Mine fell by 200 points. How is this an inflation?
polimorpho wrote:
my rating is still the same. should i make any complaint ??
Play some games first and get the bonus after you pick up some points.
Your opponents of the same strength should all be a few hundred points higher rated than you.
I made it too 1450! Only assisted by a slight rating jump...
Oct 22, 2014
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#160
Take a look at http://www.chess.com/livechess/players?type=Standard.
Apparently it now shows the manual adaptations. It certainly doesn't look like a random distribution anymore.
Im confused. Is the new rating more true to my strength? Or is my rating boost food for stronger players to gain more rating points, iv played over 600 games and think that my old rating was pretty accurate, i also feel some what cheated, i had a goal to reach 1500 now im a few games away from that which makes my goal worthless.