Hi, I'm new.
I'm studying chess but I am a beginner.
The site gave me automatically 1500 with question mark.
I'd like to dicrease my point because I'm playing with too good players for me right now.
On other chess sites I'm 850 and this is the level I need to improve right now.
Could you help me?
Maybe itìs a stupid question... anyway...
Well you try to win with other players.If you lose,you get decreased.Simple.
Yeah, just lose a couple of games and you'll be matched with people with the same rating. It's just because you're new and you don't really have a real rating yet.
As long as you have that ?, your rating will be more volatile, so you will quickly lose points when you play some games against opponents that are too strong, until you get opponents of your strength.
PS: Other sites have other rating systems so you cannot compare your rating there to your rating here, anyways. Most sites try to make their rating *look* similar to FIDE Elo, so the systems are calibrated to superficially match the rating range - with small differences between each site.
PPS: Losing on purpose ("sandbagging") is not allowed on Lichess.
On the home page in go to the lobby tab then settings. There you can set the type of game you want to, the rating range you want to play against, and the time constants. When you back to the lobby tab it will only show you players that fit those criteria.
I have mine set to standard 1650-1750 30 minutes. My understanding that equates to approximately to 900-1000 FIDE.
Just play more and it will match your rating. Of course you will lose all games at first, but it should be quite fast, because the rating is changing quickly when you start. So the first few games will be huge jumps like 90 points or more, then it will be smaller maybe 30 points. Finally you will get a win and it will start to settle at your real rating.
If you lose you lose points if its rated if you win you win points if its rated.
@a1658ab 1600 lichess rapid is probably about 1300 FIDE, although I played against a 1550 FIDE player in a 10 minute game and he was clearly worse than a typical 1800 lichess player.
@pointlesswindows I'm 2100 and 1263 FIDE.
@pointlesswindows I'm 2200+ and 1200 Fide.
