u/DeadlyProcrastinator

Does playing different variants decrease your standard chess rating?

I've been playing atomic since a while and was obsessed with it at a time. I wonder if being good at variants which are very far away from standard chess (like atomic, spell, etc) really are detrimental for standard chess? I know some variants are good for understanding (like 960, blind).

i mean im higher rated in atomic than standard (im 1900 in standard n 2100 in atomic). So should i leave playing variants if i wanna improve standard?

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