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Ok so it's completely inaccurate and that's not the reason. Still Lichess ratings are now ridiculously inflated against Chess.com ratings. This is from my own experience of course. If there was perhap…

My rating on chess.com (playing 30 minute per side games which would be considered "classical" here) is currently 1661. My same rating at Lichess is 1924. I once started a thread here asking how peopl…

@AlDra I have seen that too and I suspect Lichess ratings to now be inflated when compared to chess.com. Part of the reason could be that Lichess gave back all the points that were lost to cheaters. C…

Theoretically the rating system is supposed to make the average opponent rating not matter, but in practice this is not entirely so. From what I've seen the average opponent rating is a determinant fo…

@F_D89, my life doesn't depend on my chess rating of course, and I enjoy chess for it's own sake, but also having this goal of getting better that I can work towards gives my life meaning that it woul…

Bullet's probably harder to get a high rating in. I have a feeling you're the better player than me Cynosure. You can have my 1% trophy because I feel elitist and mean having it, but more importantly,…

I am horribly confused. In two days my rating has gained 200 points for no reason and I now have a "top %1 player" trophy next to my userinfo. I don't know if I deserve this as I believe I'm a 1750 pl…