900-1100 Elo on chess.com?
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Hi,
Currently hovering around 900-1100 Elo Blitz on chess.com. But I start to find there is something's wierd to it.
I might just be more inconsistent when playing on my cellphone than over the board, but lately been playing a lot of OTB at a local chess club with lot of quite strong 1900-1800 FIDE blitz player and they all say there no way I am under 1000 Elo. Even the "weaker" 1400-1600 player I can get around 40-50% win again.
Of course, it might just be due to playing less seriously online. Or maybe stronger player here don't bother playing as much gambit and traps line (as those just don't work again the player they are used to play again) so it result in me making less blunders. But still....
Notice a LOT of player rated like 900 blitz who have like 1500-1600 rapid rating on chess.com.... So I guess it's possible than the blitz rank are quite deflated on this server.
Also get a message saying a opposent was banned for cheating almost every other day. Once I had 4 of them in a single week. And I guess that only the obvious cheater, but you can sometime see other player with wierd behavior like losing 10 game in a row always with like 40% accuracy, and the somehow winning 10 other game in a row all with 85%+ accuracy....then losing again. So I wonder what could be the number of "partial" cheater who purposely avoir to climb elo too high or cheat in a too obvious way, but also cheat to avoid going down to under 800 (where they might probably really be) so they artificially maintains 900-1000 range.
I don't know, it's just wierd to lose to a 950 putting out 87% accuracy and then play a 1050 who just fall to a legal mate on 8 move. And then get an other 975 who play solid 75% acc but is like 1500 rapid....
Again, I might just have inconsistency issue online by not being as serious or whatever than I suffer less OTB. But for some reason that Elo range on chess.com seem to be quite a hot mess. is it just me?
I don’t play blitz (too little time)
I only play daily (normal and 960) and rapid
people can be inconsistent with their play, that's normal. People are far more likely to be inconsistent online than otb. People are far more likely to be inconsistent in a casual setting than in a tournament.
People's FIDE rating comes from tournaments, where everyone is at least expected to be focused on chess.
Online, they can be distracted, playing chess to kill time, unfocused, or persists on playing despite knowing they're having a bad day. I do that more often than I'd like to admit.
The same applies to you. When you pull out the phone to play chess, your mind may not be 100% focused on chess. But when you actively go to a club, your mind is already on chess before the game even begins.
1000-1100 range is also a wild mix bag of serious and casual players. It is a level high enough for studying players to spend some time on, but not high enough to be difficult to reach for casual players.
That's normal, please, see my posts here https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/what-is-the-difference-between-fide-ratings-and-ratings-here