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At what elo are you no longer a bad player?

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magipi
Alexander29114 wrote:

Only thing that matters is that you don’t have blunders, mistakes, and misses in most games then you’re pretty good.

"Blunders, mistakes, and misses" are not even a real thing. Those are only used by chess.com for their dumb "Game review".

Also, every chess player makes mistakes in almost every game. Very very occasionally some masters play a perfect game, but that's incredibly rare.

Asym_metric

I think a player constantly trying to improve is good, but I would not say that others are bad for being stuck at an Elo or not playing chess.

whiteknight1968

"If 90% of all players on chess.com are bad players, which seems to be a reasonable guess,"

"Bad" is a subjective description. To say that 90% of all players on chess.com seems very harsh, but it all depends what you are comparing them to.

I like to think that I am not a bad player but I definitely have days when I am.

dmc76642
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