If you tell chess.com that you are a high level player then it will start your rating at 2000 and huntress beat a cheater and got a lot of rating from that
How does chess.com decide your initial rating?
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May 16, 2021
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MegaGamer15 wrote:
This question has been on my mind for quite a while. I started out at as a 500 rated player in rapid and had my first few games, being completely shocked at how drastically it changed my rating at first. Sooner or later victories and losses now only give and take 7-9 points and figured maybe its just some kind of initiation test to see how good you are in the beginning. Fast forward to today, I checked the rapid leaderboard and saw the 1# rapid rated player HuntressesofArtemis profile. I saw the win/loss/draw stats and to my utter disbelief this player managed to become 3000+ rated with 23 wins, 20 losses, and 5 draws... how is this possible? My ratings only drastically increased/decreased the 1st 2 or 3 games for each time control I tried out. Does it allow you to have a really high initial rating with certain conditions? I want to know
As mentioned, when creating an account, the site asks for a relative strength and assigns an initial rating based on that.
https://support.chess.com/article/671-how-do-i-create-an-account
Then the Glicko rating system the site uses has the idea of rating uncertainty, called the rating deviation (RD) value, which will give larger rating swings for games until a sufficient number of recent games have been played and the RD value lowers.
https://support.chess.com/article/210-how-do-ratings-work-on-chess-com
Hmm... I don't remember getting an option of choosing my initial rating. I created my account on mobile. Is it exclusive to signing up in the website version?
This question has been on my mind for quite a while. I started out at as a 500 rated player in rapid and had my first few games, being completely shocked at how drastically it changed my rating at first. Sooner or later victories and losses now only give and take 7-9 points and figured maybe its just some kind of initiation test to see how good you are in the beginning. Fast forward to today, I checked the rapid leaderboard and saw the 1# rapid rated player HuntressesofArtemis profile. I saw the win/loss/draw stats and to my utter disbelief this player managed to become 3000+ rated with 23 wins, 20 losses, and 5 draws... how is this possible? My ratings only drastically increased/decreased the 1st 2 or 3 games for each time control I tried out. Does it allow you to have a really high initial rating with certain conditions? I want to know