I don’t really understand this tbh. If you’re really 1000, there’s obviously no shame or embarrassment in getting slaughtered by a 1500, and there shouldn’t be any in getting beaten by another 1000.
As mentioned, once your rating stabilizes you’ll be winning about half the time. And you’ll find it’s infinitely more gratifying to beat an actual person who you know is trying their best than it is to beat a computer playing nonsense moves.
Wat? Can you give a little more context?
Very weird decision by Wesley to draw with White in the last game.
I am so bad. This is my game in a nutshell: crush the opening and middle game and then blunder mate or a piece and get crushed.
Get those rooks on the seventh and force his to defend g7 from g8, then win at leisure.
Reducing your opponent’s counterplay is important a lot of the time.
Yeah I see now that I missed mate in 4 :/
That’s brutal. Time trouble?
Nope, just terrible.
And then sometimes the OTHER GUY does the dumb thing! It’s the wild west down in the dumpster ranks.
How many games are you playing each day? I definitely play worse when I play too many.
I find it’s more like a curve for me. If I am playing a handful of games per day then I am a lot better than if I barely play. If I play like 10 games in a day by the end I am not able to focus anymore.
dunno if any of you have tried eloguesser but I guessed 500 ELO for a 2k game right off the bat so I’m good at this.
Later a 1625 game one dude let a knight fork everything so I was like uh, 800. LOL.
Some of these people have higher ratings than me–wtf man lmao.
I’ve tried it. It’s hard. People blunder even at higher levels. GothamChess’s Guess The ELO series relies on people selecting their games to send him, which means you get to see what that player thought was a good game.
It also annoys me that it apparently selects mostly games between higher rated players. I have no interest in and little capacity to judge whether a player is 2200 or 2600. Show me 1000 rated games.
Been a while since i checked the thread.
Playing a bit of correspondence chess on lichess and enjoying. Anyone keen for a game, hit me up.
RugbyUP
2000 ish lichess correspondence rating.
Woah Lichess ratings are way higher than chess.com. I’m 1050 on chess.com and am just steamrolling 1300’s on Lichess.
I have a similar split.
Lichess starts everyone at 1500 instead of 1200 so you should be roughly 300 points higher. In practice I’m more like 200 to 250 points higher.
Yeah it’s pretty significant. I’ve been playing 5+5 at chess.com for the past 6 months or so, Decided I want to try some 3+2 so I went on lichess to get some practice without tanking my rating. My lichess provisional settled in about 300 points higher than my chess.com, even with the shorter time control
Nah, it’s +14 pawns. I once had 37 queens on the board. Stalemated my opponent but it was fun.
