Originally posted by Sicilian SmaugProvisional ratings are not accurate especailly after just 1 game.
Or BCF? I joined a club 2 weeks ago, played and won one rated game so far, current grade 115 (about 1800 FIDE i think), 2nd game on Wednesday.
I got into a similar situations. Had a great first tourney and started off with 1748 and then dropped till I hit 1689 and then had to climb back up.
I prefer starting low and climbing up instead of starting high, dropping and then going back up.
It just looks so much nicer on a graph 🙂