Re:Chess.com vs. Lichess
by toolslive on Thursday December 16, 2021 @02:57AM
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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 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 )
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Well, 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.
I'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.