My Rating Keeps Reducing! My mind is CRAZY!!! Help please. - Chess Forums - Page 2

adumbrate

Oct 31, 2015

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#21

Maybe if you stop focusing on your rating during the whole game, and instead focusing on your gameplay, this would not happend.

TheRealGMBobbyFish

Oct 31, 2015

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#22

LiamKalson wrote:

I have started with this website a month or so ago. Back then, I never knew what my rating was. What I did know was that I had been playing chess since I was five (now 15), but hardly read any books or studied.

Really, just don't worry about rating. It's not a score just a relative indication of strength. A month isn't very long and you have not played a lot of games yet. See where you are after five hundred games.

In the 800-1100 range there really isn't much difference in playing strength. Games are often decided by tactical oversights in the middle game or opening traps or blunders inside the first 20 moves.

You are in a rating band that is both large and has a lot of improving players due to age and very positive benefit to study ratio.

Learn basic endings. Have four to six openings that you like that cover the majority of the replies you see. Then study tactics a lot! The recommendation of a tactics book that is organized by motif is a good one. It'll only take a 1-3 months to get through a 1000 or so,but you will be much better as a result.

ikeidar

Oct 31, 2015

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#23

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user34567898

Mar 13, 2016

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#24

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WCM mkkuhner

Mar 13, 2016

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#25

chess.com uses the Glicko rating variant. When you have played only a few games your rating zooms up and down. As you play more, it stabilizes. You may not quickly get back to the peak you reached if it was just a fluctuation due to a few games rather than an estimate of your playing strength.

I also recall from when I was a young tournament player that during periods when I studied hard and really tried to improve, my rating usually went DOWN for a while. I'd eaten a bunch of knowledge and not yet digested it! If this is the case, it will go up later when you've integrated the knowledge into your games.

Tactics Trainer is really helpful, I recommend it. But for me at least, it's best not to eat tactics puzzles like popcorn. Instead, hide the timer and make yourself really try to solve each one. You will have a lower score but you will improve faster.

DrClear

Mar 14, 2016

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#26

Greatest posts I've read
Thanks all

DrClear

Mar 14, 2016

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#27

Best posts I've read
Thanks

SaintGermain32105

Mar 14, 2016

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#28

quit chess before they start shitting on you

BlargDragon

Mar 14, 2016

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#29

Improve your grip strength. Wrap a towel around the handle of a sledge hammer, tape it in place, and use each hand to hold it up, alternating between gripping it with your fist and pinching it between your fingers. You'll never drop another point.

drabcoyote

Mar 14, 2016

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#30

Think that if you lose its the end of the world. And focus a lot harder during the match because get distracted by other things it is likely your opponent is going to catch you off guard and they'll do an obvious attack and you'll probably won't notice and from there on you'll lose. Also if you go to school or University focus a lot harder during lessons. Take some of my advice and you'll go places also practice often.

SaintGermain32105

Mar 14, 2016

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#31

Dealing with idiots is.

smshadowman

Mar 21, 2016

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#32

aman_makhija wrote:

Work on clculation and learn positional play. Once you learn this you will automatically recognise certain patterns.

But he's right- don't play blitz, you can't excersise techinique there.

I'm a weak player myself. I was once as low as 800. Then I stopped worrying extra about tactics and my rating doubled.

Of course I did tactics but I also learned technique

What do you mean by "technique?" What is the difference between tactics and technique?

aman_makhija

Mar 29, 2016

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#33

Morphysrevenges wrote:

Look dude, it's a little know fact that ratings "re-cycle" at 3000 - which has been empirically determined to be the absolute ceiling rating for humans. (computers are another matter).

This means that if you pass over 3000, say you gain 75 points - then your rating becomes 75. It's like chessic Karma or something. But it tracks.

The beauty of it is that it works in reverse also, So if your rating dips below 0, then it starts over the other way.

For example, let's say you drop your rating down to 75 points. Play like a friggin moron man. drop pieces, drop trou - who cares. lose those points.

Okay, so now you are rated 75 , the rating of a rock. drop enough games to lose another 100 points and you will be rated 2975! It's amazing.

You go out clubbing with 2975 rating and flaunt it baby. You will be pickin' up chicks left and right!! Good Luck.

Which is why Hikaru Nakamura is 3200 in bullet

aman_makhija

Mar 29, 2016

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#34

BY technique I mean how to convert an extra pawn, how to hold basic endgames.

Suppose you us a tactic and win a pawn. Up a pawn, you still need a plan to make this an asset. Formulating this plan is what I call technique.

TChosen1

Mar 30, 2016

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#35

Morphysrevenges wrote:

Whip_Kitten I hope you are a girl. I think your icon or avatar or whatever is cute. If you are an old hairy sweaty fat guy I am going to barf after what I just said........................

Snow White.

Don't be silly, there are no girls on the internet. Never have been

Shah_Maht

Mar 30, 2016

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#36

15 bro? you are getting old it seems. Take up checkers.

aman_makhija

Mar 30, 2016

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#37

What utter nonsense...

But can it be...

Nehan_A

4 hrs ago

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#38

Anti-Communication wrote:

This is very long, but please read the whole thing since this problem is SO hard to explain.

I have started with this website a month or so ago. Back then, I never knew what my rating was. What I did know was that I had been playing chess since I was five (now 15), but hardly read any books or studied.

As I played my first few games, I noticed so many people with a 900- rating in blitz. I thought these ratings were so puny, and confidently played about 10 of these players and won almost all in a row in blitz. My rating had initially gone way down hundreds of points since I was tired or something, but was again shooting straight up. I was not used to blitz, so my rating hit a 1100 and I got tired, which made it go down again. I thought my brain was temporarily fried from playing about 30 more blitz games in a row. However, my rating just started to go to an 850, then 800, then 750, then 700... Now my blitz is below 700!

I have tried reading much more often and doing tremendous amounts of research for weeks. I now know at least 2 or 3x the openings, gambits, middle game techniques, end game techniques, etc. I now feel like a genius when I compare my self to the way I felt a month ago. I feel SO MUCH more knowledgable.

I feel like the more I think and worry about my rating dropping, the more its drops. And it drops at a slow, but steady rate. I also notice I am making probably 5x the amount of stupid blunders I did a month ago. I have always had good luck playing chess while listening to music (classical). I have tried everything from Toccata and Fugue in D Minor to greensleeves. I have even been pretty relaxed at times, but nothing works now! What's even more scary is that I find little difference in luck between playing a 900 player and a 1300! Infact, it's not rare that I'll beat someone that is 1300-1400.

My rating has been doing the same thing for all types of live chess, but especially blitz. I am 99% sure it's just a psychologically created phenomenon, but I am simply unnable to help it. My interest in chess has never been anywhere close to what it is now. I have played many, many games in my life, but have never been exposed to all these famous players and other aspects of the chess world. I am now playing much more chess than before. Maybe that's the problem. I would like to know if anyone else has had the same problem or knows how I can resolve this terrible spell-like thing I have.

Please help.

Thanks.

Ik its been 11 years since this forum but im experiencing the same thing right now, rating drop from 2435 to 2300 after I started reading books

The-Cream

2 hrs ago

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#39

Dude, just let it happen...