Here is another example:
I lost four games in a row and game review shows:
My Game rating vs My Opponents game rating
1550 vs 1850
1750 vs 2025
1650 vs 1950
1650 vs 1750
Basically I played above my level but my opponents even outscored me. okay I know small sample size ... , but I see that too many times to believe it's nothing.
Today I played six games and again half of them I lost against people playing 500+ points higher than there rating ...
1256 guy played like a 2000 with 93.50 accuracy (24 moves)
1227 guy played like a 1750 with 82.50 accuracy (46! moves)
1215 guy played like a 1750 with 81.10 accuracy (44! moves)
In all three games I played good (1700, 1550 and 1400 performance)
Today I lost against a
1300 having a 2000 performance over 39 moves
1229 having a 1850 performance over 26 moves
1278 having a 1750 performance over 46 moves
Rating numbers after a game are pretty inflated. They should not be taken seriously. It is interesting to see, but nothing more than a toy.
For instance, by that same game rating score, I am usually above 2 000 level at the end of the game. The only time where I am lower than my actual rating is either if I played terribly, which can happen once in a while, or the position was very sharp and there are mistakes by both me and the opponent.
Those numbers can be so nonsensical that I had a game where I played an unrated game against someone rated well below 1 000. The opponent blundered 3 times in 10 moves, and still got a rating of close to 1 300.
This feature, along with game accuracy to some point are ok to look at, but they are used to stroke our egos as well. I see that you are here since 2018, so you should have noticed that game accuracy has changed a few years ago, and now values are much higher than before. Before, I had games with 20 accuracy, and when I look at them today, it says like 60 or something.
So, to cut it short, you shouldn't rely too much on rating performance after a game, the same goes for accuracy. As long as the opponent is not having multiple games with 95 accuracy, looking through the games is a better indicator if everything is ok.
I have checked some of those games. In the first game, you simply blundered a piece. In the second game, your opponent blundered a piece, and then you blundered everything.
It's impossible to take the chess.com script seriously when it declares that those games were played at the 1800-1900 level.
Hi,
I am playing a lot of blitz lately and notice, that I constantly loose games against players that play 500-600 rating points higher than there actual rating. That means, I am a (bad) 1200 rated blitz player playing against other 1200 players that kill me playing like 1850+ players. And not only once in a while, what I could explain in a way. No constantly. Sometimes 20-30 times on a weekend. How is that possible?
On the other hand I have a lot of games where I play much higher than my current rating and somebody could say the same about me.
What is it that I don't understand?
See as examples the following games I lost
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/120725438041?tab=review
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/120652840837?tab=review
And the following I won:
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/120655224853?tab=review
(This one is maybe not the best example, because I studied the London a lot)
https://www.chess.com/analysis/game/live/120569381169?tab=review
So I guess, I don't understand the rating system/importance of accuracy. What would you say?
Thanks for your input
Jürgen
P.S.: I even found it harder to go from 1000 to 1100 than going from 1100 up to 1300 at one point. Exactly because of the same reason ...