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who cares about absolute rating? no matter what the rating of your opponent is, it's all about the _difference_ between theirs and yours. It would have been ni
by toolslive 5y ago
who cares about absolute rating? no matter what the rating of your opponent is, it's all about the _difference_ between theirs and yours. It would have been nice to just have 1 number and one unit but it isn't. Now you have x on Fide, y on lichess, z on USCF, t on chess.com and w on fics.
(for me it's 2000 Fide, 2300 Lichess, no USCF, no chess.com and 1850 on fics )
- frogpelt 5y agoWell, actually I've even found 600-level games on Chess.com to be harder than 900-level games. Obviously I've improved. But I wonder if the many of the very low ratings on Chess.com are just due to people making terrible blunders in otherwise pretty solid games.
- dvirsky 5y agoI've also noticed that there isn't a lot of difference. You get horrible blunders from higher rated players and lower rated players will kick your ass. I can drop or rise 200 Elo points in a couple of hours easily.