(04-21-2020, 08:01 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(04-21-2020, 04:06 AM)Senor Fantastico Wrote: I've been playing on your site. Strangely, I'm like 1600 vs the computer and about 650 vs real people 

Maybe I should learn more than the one opening I know lol.

Surprisingly, playing a person is really different from playing a computer.  People do unpredictable and strange things.  Some of them study weird openings in order to get an advantage.  If you play the computers, you can kind of get the hang of them after a while.  I've advanced myself over the 1200 level (My current rating is 1207), and I routinely beat the bots that are rated in the 1300s now.  So I'm slowly getting better.  But I'm still not studying at all.  Just playing.  

I'm also finding that caffeine or an energy drink raises my game by about 100 points.  

So, do you have a real rating, or are you just estimating?

I pretty reliably beat the computer on level 10 (1550 rating). Can you get a real rating playing against the computer?

My rating playing people in blitz games is 699. And yeah, people catch me in Scholars Mate and the like fairly often. Kinda learning I can see my own moves well but I'm pretty terrible at anticipating what the other player is developing. I also know very little about playing Black.

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