Rating advice

Originally posted by CrawlIce
The weird smiley above is a percent symbol.

It works if you put a space between the % and the bracket. I have had the same thing happen with an exclamation mark and a bracket. It's quite annoying, and I forget it almost every time and have to go back and edit it.

Originally posted by Nordlys
It works if you put a space between the % and the bracket. I have had the same thing happen with an exclamation mark and a bracket. It's quite annoying, and I forget it almost every time and have to go back and edit it.

Sometimes I see the "edit" link and sometimes I don't. Haven't quite figured out the reason why. Maybe after a post is on the board for a time, you can no longer edit it?

Originally posted by CrawlIce
Sometimes I see the "edit" link and sometimes I don't. Haven't quite figured out the reason why. Maybe after a post is on the board for a time, you can no longer edit it?

You have one hour to edit a post.

ES

Originally posted by Phlabibit
You have one hour to edit a post.

ES

Thanks!

[ I still find it hard to understand why someone would have a higher OTB rating. [/b]

I guess OTB means open tournaments rated?(don't speak english that well)
Are you referring to long games like 2h and more?
There my rating is 1850
Here it's 1450
Blitz is 2050
So the faster the game the higher my rating.
I usually do the move that first comes to mind even after thinking for a long time. I can understand a position only as well as I can and my intuitional first move usually equals the result of estimation of the moves and variations
but then maybe its just wishful thinking of mine and unconscously wanting the move that first came to mind to be correct?

Originally posted by JanHyde
What sort of rating would you expect a 'good' player to have, the sort of level where you can play an expert without looking a complete fool ;-)

everyone with a rating 100 points or more higher than you, is a good player.

everyone with a rating in excess of 100 points lower is learning,

everyone with a rating within 100 points of you is a dangerous threat to be stabbed in the back with maximum ruthlessness ...

Originally posted by Nordlys
While I can understand why people could have about the same rating in OTB and correspondence chess, I still find it hard to understand why someone would have a higher OTB rating.

A rating isn't an absolute measurement of chess playing strength. It just shows how good you are relative to other players. Having a higher OTB rating than your correspondance rating simply means that your game is more suited to OTB playing (have a good knowledge of opening theory for example) but that correspondance gives your opponent a better chance.

Originally posted by Schumi
A rating isn't an absolute measurement of chess playing strength. It just shows how good you are relative to other players. Having a higher OTB rating than your correspondance rating simply means that your game is more suited to OTB playing (have a good knowledge of opening theory for example) but that correspondance gives your opponent a better chance.

We all have 'bogey' players too.

My OTB rating is normally about 1700 and there was a player in the league rated about 1350 but his style of play always seemed to catch me.

He would exchange the game down and grind out the endgame.

My endgame is fairly dire!

Originally posted by propawnkiller
[b]I guess OTB means open tournaments rated?(don't speak english that well)

OTB=Over the board