Marcus91 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 11:55 am
Uri Blass wrote: ↑Sun Nov 24, 2024 10:43 am
a question about the calculation.
Suppose a player with rating 2450 beat LeelaQueenOdds as black 15+10 (Reference) that has a rating of 2027.3
Do you calculate the game as 400 elo difference or as more than it.
400 elo difference is going to be unfair and I guess that in this case people can get also rating of 4000 assuming they play enough games.
I also believe that it is clearly easier to achieve high rating if you play against LeelaQueenOdds as black 15+10 (Reference)
I lead against her 4.5-0.5 and it seems to me that it may be easier for me to get high performance against 15+10(Reference) and not against 1+0 Reference and I doubt if i can draw often enough for that purpose.
The calculation does not include the 400 elo point rule as a limit, If the opponent is under 400 points you will continue to earn less and less as you continue to climb. Your strategy is legit, as is any other strategy to beat the leaderboard. From a subjective point of view, you are about to reach the 150 games threshold, which would bring you to have 'K=10', an opponent with much lower rating would make you climb very slowly, To reach the top of the leaderboard you would still need to win almost every time, and here the draw rule counts for little
I think that if I win 10 games in a row I will try higher level.
I have now 5.5-0.5 with 5 wins in a row and decided not to play the same opening again and again so it is not because of memorizing openings.
I use the suggestions of fide master Ori that is number 2 in the list(the suggestions are for black but they are also good for white).
You need
1)Pay attention to the opening
2)Control the Centre easily
3)Try to exchange pieces and attack.
You do not need to play too defensive and expect that the game is going to win itself because it is not going to happen.
The main thing to pay attention to it is not to blunder pieces.
It is also better to avoid from intuition like there is no way that this attack is not winning after this sacrifice and try to calculate to see that at least you keep a winning position that is easy to win even if the opponent can defend.
Maybe there are people who believe the opponent too much and think if the opponent has some initiative for a pawn it is better not to capture it.
In my last game I captured pawns of Leela with no fear when of course I was careful to calculate and did not capture without thinking and convincing myself that the opponent has no dengerous threats that I cannot defend against them.
https://lichess.org/hpPW4miEMtAN
First came 10.Qxh7 Later 11.Bxh6 that I calculated to be sure it force trading pieces with no risk for me.
Then 13.Qxf6 that I also calculated to cause no problems for me.
Then 15.d5 to block the bishop and control the centre.
I saw that 21.Bc4 lose the pawn g2 but it is a good deal to trade rooks for it and also losing d5 is a good deal to trade at d5.