When I first joined chess.com I was just hitting play. What I found was quite a wide range of playing level. So (I guess like lots of others) I would go through cycles of winning the easy games only to get hammered by a few hard games in a row. Completely destroyed my ranking. So I now tweak so I am playing from a range of -400 to +25. Since doing this I have started to make some real progress. Has anyone else tweaked the custom game settings and if so, what have you gone with and why? Forcing yourself to take a breath between moves also helps (lol)
When I first joined chess.com I was just hitting play. What I found was quite a wide range of playing level. So (I guess like lots of others) I would go through cycles of winning the easy games only to get hammered by a few hard games in a row. Completely destroyed my ranking. So I now tweak so I am playing from a range of -400 to +25. Since doing this I have started to make some real progress. Has anyone else tweaked the custom game settings and if so, what have you gone with and why? Forcing yourself to take a breath between moves also helps (lol)