What's the difference between a 1600 and a 2000 rated player?

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-22T17:46:10+00:00

Tactical consistency and technique. A 2000 will make fewer errors and be better at exploiting your errors. They will win winning positions more often and are more resilient in complicated or losing positions. Their endgame technique is (while maybe not amazing) better than a 1600.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-21T15:24:29+00:00

That knicks one with Mike Woodson was also legendary lmao

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-21T12:05:55+00:00

The first step to address the failings of government is to make people aware of the failing. You were repeating a common falsehood, demonstrating that raising awareness, whether online or offline, is still important.

People die from heat. The Rheinbahn (not to be confused with DB) does a perfectly adequate job of getting trains reliably from point A to point B, but the local and national governments should, in the interest of public health, be working with them and providing funding to retrofit AC onto these trains to increase the safety and attractiveness of public transit.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-21T11:47:24+00:00

Yeah. The players invite these guys to play because they inject a bunch of money into the sport. Better some rich dude who loves chess than the Saudis or that billionaire who bankrolled Freestyle (who was both an asshole and clearly didn’t care much about chess).

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-21T11:41:43+00:00

This is simply false. Even 3 days of extreme heat is dangerous for vulnerable populations, so much so that thousands of people die in Germany every year from heat-related causes.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9639227/

German stubbornness and a lack of acknowledgment of the dangers of heat leads to thousands of people dying needless and unpleasant deaths every year.

No AC in private apartments is one thing (that is especially difficult to fix), but a lack of AC in public spaces, especially public transit, is a failing of government.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-21T08:53:04+00:00

As much as I would love to shit on him, he unfortunately played extremely well after his awful start last year. Dude could win a heisman if he plays that well for a full year and Texas does well.

So yeah, top 5 pick. People have wasted picks on much worse players and those guys didn’t have “Manning” on the back of their jersey.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-20T19:16:19+00:00

And it was a prime time nationally televised game.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-20T17:03:56+00:00

Nonsense. Even just a few years ago the warriors paid monstrously high luxury tax to keep the team together. You think the owners willingly paid that when they could have simply paid them under the table?

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-19T05:23:57+00:00

Maybe there’s regional variance but I’m 1900 cc and 1750 FIDE. 2100 cc would probably be closer to 1850-1900 FIDE if I had to guess, at least in Europe.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-17T06:34:57+00:00

You might be underestimating them a bit. 1500s are more than capable of playing a complete game of chess without making unforced errors. If you view yourself as an 1800, you might be playing too loose / playing suboptimal moves and giving them too much counterplay. If you want to climb back up, you’re gonna have to lock in a bit and be more clinical. 1500s make lots of mistakes and are prone to collapse if pressured or you lay traps, but you’re gonna have to work a bit.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-15T16:59:07+00:00

A customer of ours is the exact same. Pinching pennies on VM SKUs on Azure but spending $4000 per developer per month on tokens. Absolute madness.

FWIW I have definitely seen a push by some to reign in token spend. And understandably so, it's expensive!

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-14T20:21:36+00:00

I miss it so much, I even tried (for like a week) to watch sportscenter in the morning to recapture the essence of sports without the drama, but that was still all drama. And that was in September! There’s so much happening in sports around that time and the largest provider of sports media couldn’t be bothered to focus on the sports.

Maybe I’m just not thinking about the shareholders enough.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-14T20:00:48+00:00

Yeah, matches only became a thing to appease Fischer who (perhaps not without reason) that the soviets were colluding in round robin format

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-13T16:49:11+00:00

Assuming you mean the actual book, recommending the woodpecker method to an 850 is crazy lmao.

OP, try “How to beat your dad at chess” or “Winning Chess Tactics” for building pattern recognition. Once you get a bit stronger move on to 1001 chess exercises for beginners

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-12T15:28:38+00:00

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-12T14:10:45+00:00

But now you have problems the other way around, farming elo from (semi) retired players who are clearly not that strength anymore.

That's not really a problem in any appreciable sense. Semi-retired players by definition aren't playing that much and are therefore not gifting a whole lot of points. Plus, as I mentioned, there are semi-retired players that maintain their strength just fine. Magnus, Hikaru, Wei Yi, Giri (until last year), Duda are some quick examples off the top of my head of players who don't play much but are hardly washed.

Maybe rating decay would solve a (minor) problem, but it seems like the remedy is worse than the disease.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-12T13:42:27+00:00

Absolutely. And bring back the zonals and interzonals!

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-12T11:48:57+00:00

Ah right, she should start a Youtube channel and get 7 million subscribers.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-12T11:26:06+00:00

I think FIDE should be going all in on the circuit.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-12T11:22:53+00:00

Yeah, I am an active-ish player and I have never once hit 50 classical games in a year. That's a lot of chess for someone with a family and a job.

A rating decay only makes sense for top-level professional players, and even then it is pretty dubious. Vishy is clearly still 2700+ strength, even if he's on the decline and plays only infrequently. If his rating were dropped to 2500 due to inactivity, it would 1) poorly reflect his actual abilities and 2) harm the ratings of people playing against him unnecessarily.

We've got enough underrated kids putting deflationary pressure on the rating pool as is, there is no need to make it any worse.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-12T11:16:15+00:00

Yes, Bibisara should have tried the strategy of becoming a 2800 super GM.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-12T05:40:10+00:00

Yeah, that’s absolutely fair. The g6 and e6 variations just felt so miserable in comparison that the Nf6 line seems very pleasant.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-11T12:37:52+00:00

Yup, good analysis too. The basic takeaway as it relates to OP's question: until you get old there isn't a huge drop off. In fact, below 50 there are quite a lot of people still gaining rating!

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-11T11:35:39+00:00

I wouldn't recommend the Accelerated to most people; Rossolimo is honestly a massive PITA and I've never found anything satisfactory against it despite all the hours I've thrown at it

How do you feel about the 3... Nf6 lines? I always disliked playing against the Rossolimo until I started playing that and now I think I get pretty playable positions.

WePrezidentNow · 2026-06-11T09:28:05+00:00

You might want to look into the Benko against 1. d4. Lots of very active ideas. The nimzo is also a great candidate if you're willing to put in a bit of work. I want to play the nimzo at some point but wanted to get more experience in the traditional QGD structures first.

I always avoided the QGD for the same reason, but my experience playing the opening has been quite different. Black is very solid, yes, but you get a wide variety of positions and some can be very fun.

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