When someone wants to play casual, they are admitting that their current rating is an anomaly, a fluke, and that they know if they enlarge their statistical sample the rating will regress to the mean, one or two hundred points lower. Why not ban casual altogether? If you play, have the balls to get rated.
Prolly because some people like to play casual.
Life-hack: if you're drunk play casual.
The best way to get rated is OTB games. Is there any utility having balls (or anything else) to play chess ?
When someone wants to [drink diet coke], they are admitting that their current [weight] is an anomaly, a fluke, and that they know if they enlarge their [food] sample the [weight] will regress to the mean, one or two hundred [pounds] [higher].
Why not ban [dieting] altogether?
If you [eat], have the [meat] balls to get [inflated].
Why not ban [dieting] altogether?
If you [eat], have the [meat] balls to get [inflated].
@pawn-ij
You just made my day. Great edit right there.
You just made my day. Great edit right there.
By eating more you can lose weight? Maybe some people are actually dumb enough to believe that.
Sometimes people don't like the pressure. And no one is fooled by a preliminary rating, or 20 game or less rating unless they don't play often.
People who feel pressure from a lichess rating need to think a lot more about what is important in life.
It's not just a "20 game or less rating" that can be a fluke. Sometimes you play someone else that has a strangely high rating for their competence, and you beat them 8 times and go up 100 points. The anomolously high rating gets transferred to you. People who have such warped values that they want to cling to a fake online rating are also capable of artificially inflating their rating by making multiple identities and then playing themselves.
The rated/casual option engenders the proliferation of fakers and whimps on the site.
It's not just a "20 game or less rating" that can be a fluke. Sometimes you play someone else that has a strangely high rating for their competence, and you beat them 8 times and go up 100 points. The anomolously high rating gets transferred to you. People who have such warped values that they want to cling to a fake online rating are also capable of artificially inflating their rating by making multiple identities and then playing themselves.
The rated/casual option engenders the proliferation of fakers and whimps on the site.
There are less cheaters when you play casual.
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