Why not just beat people with higher rating, like 1400-1500. That will raise your rating quite a bit.
I think there should be a way to reset your live and online chess ratings
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Jan 12, 2015
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#3
Looking at your past 10-15 game win/loss record and your opponents rating. I would say yours is pretty accurate.
I made a new account, so we'll see what happens with my rating. As for your advice to beat people with a higher rating, I beat someone rated 1429 and my rating only jumped 15 points. I think ratings adjustments cap at +/- 16 after a while.
Jan 12, 2015
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#5
You can't beat one person rating low 1400s and expect to move up a ton. Their ratings could be inflated for whatever reason or they could have made a silly blunder. You have to consistently beat 1400 players to be in the 1400 rating
Unholycyclone wrote:
You can't beat one person rating low 1400s and expect to move up a ton. Their ratings could be inflated for whatever reason or they could have made a silly blunder. You have to consistently beat 1400 players to be in the 1400 rating
Read your first post... That's what I was responding to.
chessmicky wrote:
There is: Play better
And then I can reset my ratings? Sources?
Zigwurst wrote:
You play better -> your ratings rise on their own.
Yes, obviously.
Imagine Henry Ford suggesting the idea for a car and people saying, "if you just start walking, you'll get there anyway."
Wouldn't a constant resetting of one's rating decrease the overall "worth" of the whole rating pool? Imagine a 600-ish patzer who got beaten so many times resets it every few days so he basically gets hundreds of points for free, and then multiply that by thousands of other players who'd do the same ... it would be like handing out free money at the bank everytime someone has all spent his. Over time, money would be worth jack, since you don't have to do anything to earn it.
^^ Rating inflation for days.
charles_butternucker wrote:
Wouldn't a constant resetting of one's rating decrease the overall "worth" of the whole rating pool? Imagine a 600-ish patzer who got beaten so many times resets it every few days so he basically gets hundreds of points for free, and then multiply that by thousands of other players who'd do the same ... it would be like handing out free money at the bank everytime someone has all spent his. Over time, money would be worth jack, since you don't have to do anything to earn it.
Yes, a rating of 1200 may lose some of its prestige, but that's a price I'm willing to pay.
Jan 13, 2015
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#14
Given the massive amount of people on this site. Even if a smaller percentage are active, I don't think the number of people resetting that are below 1200 would actually cause that much rating inflation. If you are above 1200 then it would seem to cause overall rating deflation.
Maybe the whole rating system should be whored out. Buy/rent/lease rating points for cash. Monthly auctions for 100-point jumps, 200, etc.
[Someone help me figure out if I'm kidding or not. I can't tell yet.]
steve_bute wrote:
Maybe the whole rating system should be whored out. Buy/rent/lease rating points for cash. Monthly auctions for 100-point jumps, 200, etc.
[Someone help me figure out if I'm kidding or not. I can't tell yet.]
In that case they should rename the site to capitalism.com.
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/is-there-any-way-to-reset-your-live-chess-ratings