All things chess

[Markus]

I'm trying to get a rating myself. Do I just have to play a game with someone to get a rating or what? I don't understand...

All you need to do is play live chess. Your rating will change after every game.

[Flareon350]

Ok thanks.

[BitBuster]

It was a pretty epic game imo.

Did you save the moves? You should post them here, and then we can comment on the epicness.

Actually, everyone here should do that everytime something cool comes up in a game.

[Flareon350]

My rating is 1052, which I am assuming isn't that good. I got totally owned. That's what happens when I haven't played for 5 years

[Markus]

Did you save the moves? You should post them here, and then we can comment on the epicness.

Actually, everyone here should do that everytime something cool comes up in a game.

Every game is archived. I saw your game .

http://www.chess.com...ml?id=286280975

e: I've watched Flareon350's game now... I can tell you haven't played in a while. No offence, some of your moves were really good . I also noticed that your opponent missed a tactic that would've killed your queen .

[BitBuster]

Every game is archived.

Cool!

I saw your game .

Damnit!

[James]

You can also play correspondence chess, which is what I've been doing since I'm not always at the computer. The games take longer (each side has up to 3 days to make a move under the normal settings) but the bright side is that you can play as many games simultaneously as you want.

Also, I played like an idiot and lowered my rating from 1636 to 1168 Right around where my rating should be, I think. Hopefully it will grow with experience.

[BitBuster]

Correspondence chess sounds like a good idea. I'm mediocre at best, but at blitz, I totally suck. I'd like to pretend that I'm like Botvinnik, hating on blitz because it's an affront to the elegance of the game (which it is), but I hate it more because I miss obvious things and barely even bother to look at the board, so concerned am I with the clock.

Looking at my game, you would probably think that I hadn't played in years (in my defense, my last half-dozen moves or so were sheer desperado tactics, unsportsmanlike attempts at hoping that my opponent would blunder). When I was 8 years old and actually played in tourneys, my rating was something like 968. It distresses me that I apparently have not grown much in skill in the past 15 years.

[James]

4 game winning streak to bring my rating back over 1300.

Blitz and Bullet ratings are both in the 800s, though...

[BitBuster]

Congrats!

It's bad enough that I tend to hang pieces under rapid time controls; blitz and bullet would be a total slaughter.