Sometimes I think there should be a special command to ignore your ratings. Just because you lose a few games doesn't mean you're declining as a player. You're at least as good as you were before, probably better because every time you lose a game you gain knowledge (I won't do THAT again) and that makes you a better player. Watching your rating and trying to improve is like a dieting person checking his weight every day. It's a recipe for failure and frustration. Enjoy the game, play the best you can, keep at it and improvement will surely come. In chess as in anything.
Originally posted by buddy2Yeah, ratings...I've actually gone up from 1400 or so, mid 1500,s within a week, after winning 3, or 4 games against better players than me (they all made significant mistakes).
Sometimes I think there should be a special command to ignore your ratings. Just because you lose a few games doesn't mean you're declining as a player. You're at least as good as you were before, probably better because every time you lose a game you gain knowledge (I won't do THAT again) and that makes you a better player. Watching your rating and tr ...[text shortened]... e, play the best you can, keep at it and improvement will surely come. In chess as in anything.
I know I'm not a 1500's player, but there you go 🙂
Mark
Staying off the theme for a bit...
I may be a prov, but the only person I really like my rating to be higher than is my good friend shadow692. At the mo, they are quite similar.
The rating is a good idea of how good you are, but they should not cause "fear" of losing and gaining a lower rating. This site should be more about playing chess, as it is, IMO.
crec
Originally posted by paultopiaWell, just to give you an idea, my USCF rating has settled at 1449. So it's inflated by about 150 points here. However, I haven't played in a USCF tournament in well over a year, and I believe that my playing strength has improved at least slightly in that time.
Well, I finally got around to actually joining the uscf. So now I can play in some real life tournaments and have them tell me my rating is 900 or something horrible like that.
