Hello
There is a WIDE swing in the opponents ratings that are selected for me. Sometimes as much as nearly 200 points higher or lower than me.
I DEFINITELY do not want to play someone rated 200 points higher. All I can do in these cases is Abort the game, which you don't really want to do. Its just crappy. My alternative is to play the game and know from the get go I am almost cerainly going to lose - no fun.
How can I configure LiChess to only match me against people rated like 50 points higher or lower than me ? If it takes a long time to get an opponent - NO PROBLEM. If sometimes I cannot get an opponent within 15 minutes or so - NO PROBLEM. This is much better than almost instantly getting an opponent every time - but half the time the opponent is not a suitable one.
Doug Cameron
If you use create a game you can use a slider to adjust opponent ratings. Really though it's better to play stronger opponents. How will you improve if you only ever stay in your comfort zone?
I dont mind playing stronger opponents. But not MUCH stronger. Get it ? You dont go to the gym and lift Super heavy weights. You lift a little heavy, for you. Get it ? Im not planning on playing in the US Open next year. I want to improve gradually - I have time. Are you understanding ? Playing someone rated 50 points higher is not exactly comfort zone. Or maybe you win most of your games against people rated 50 points higher than you.
50 points is barely larger than the difference between white and black. 200 points means the weaker player wins about 25% of the time.
My rating is under 1100. At this level, the difference between black and white is almost nill. I know it means a lot at higher levels, but where Im at , its nothing. As for the weaker player winning 25 % of the time when against someone 200 points higher - I dont believe it.
Hey here's an idea - if you think my desire to play opponents limited to 50 pts above or below my rating is a bad idea or whatever - keep your opinion to yourself. Thats not why I posted, to get your little opinion on that.
Suit yourself. I don't really care if you improve just thought you might want to. Anyway I anwered your question so let's leave it there.
I'll talk with the other developers and see what we can do to improve pairing quality for the 15+15 classical pool (so it's less necessary for classical players to do manual seeks). I understand you're trying not to abort although I don't understand what this particular abort (1062 versus 1065) was about:
lichess.org/wmU7q9mnThat failing, I'd recommend correspondence as an excellent way to learn, but Lichess correspondence TCs make less sense than other sites. :-( Hopefully I can find a week to sit down and focus on improving that.
Toadofsky
Thanks for your response.
1. I don't know what that particular abort was about either...I think i was just tired ,,,,, you may notice I do play a lot of higher rated players, I -Normally- don't abort
2. Clearly some people think its good that you get some games where the other player is considerably higher......so I guess the perfect thing would be if it were configurable in the players profile or something.....you could accept the default way it works now OR configure high and low limits
3. I am a java developer and it doesn't Seem like this would be a real difficult feature to add. I understand the application is written in Scala, and I don't know anything about that, but I'm sure its similar. But I DO know that normally when people think something would probably be "quick and easy" it often turns out NOT to be the case :-)
Thanks again for reading my post and your intention to possibly look into it
Doug Cameron
Doug,
2. I am terribly sorry, but other developers advise me that pairings aren't too fast and aren't too biased. So the only advice I can offer is to do manual seeks (where you can specify the exact rating bounds). Again, I am sorry and hopefully someday I can make correspondence on Lichess enjoyable so players can learn and improve more quickly.
3. I think your suspicions are correct. :-)
Sincerely,
Daniel
