u/AltruisticLayer1476

Huge save after a couple of blunders

I surprised myself saving that game lol, blundered 2 minor pieces but could save it.

  1. d4 e5 2. dxe5 Nc6 3. Bf4 Qe7 4. Nf3 Qb4+ 5. c3 Qxf4 6. g3 Qc4 7. Bg2 f6 8. exf6 Nxf6 9. Nbd2 Qf7 10. Ng5 Qg6 11. Nde4 Nxe4 12. Bxe4 Qxg5 13. Bxc6 dxc6 14. Qd3 Be7 15. e3 O-O 16. O-O-O Rxf2 17. Qc4+ Rf7 18. Rhf1 Bf6 19. Rd8+ Bxd8 20. Qxf7+ Kh8 21. Qf8#
u/AltruisticLayer1476 — 7 days ago

The capture is from the chess.com mobile app stats, it shows I'm 509 down in rating from my top one, the thing is, the top one was reached with the previous rating system, which didn't quite reflect the actual puzzle rating "Elo" one had.

The thing is I'm probably never going to achieve that top rating unless I study hard for a few years, so it will always look like I'm 500 points worse than my top, and therefore my skills are worse, which isn't true, I think a fix would've been, the day after the new ratings updated (from 2200~ to 1500 in my case), the max rating should've been converted to the new system, and not kept the previous number, the one before the rating conversion.

Although the bug is kinda somewhat demoralizing whenever I check my new ratings, it mostly rubs me off because as a developer I feel like it's an obvious bug which I wouldn't want in my app lol.

Hope this reaches the right eyes and helps!

u/AltruisticLayer1476 — 18 days ago