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importance of rating

I do not know if it is just me, but every time I go below 2100 for KotH, it realy bothers me, I usually get kinda pissed off, and then insult myself in the chat. For some reason, I think that 1900 and 2000 is super low for me, but when I look at another player with 2000 rating, I say "wow, he must be good" This makes me hate myself even more..... I think I should stop putting so much importance in my ELO, it just makes me feel bad about myself, because I am bad at KotH and every other chess variant
Here we use Glicko, not Elo. :P

Look at my rating, it is much worse than yours, yet I'm happy of it (right now).
I recently read that in some scientific study they proved that the secret to happiness lies in matching your expectations. When you have unrealistic expectations you are doomed to misery. You could even be Magnus Carlsen, but be unhappy that you are not chess champion of Universe, or as very well might be even with Carlsen - unhappy about not being better than best computers etc. The only problem I see with this is that I don't believe it's that possible to calibrate your expectations - they are created by your experience and individual character etc.
A lot of chessplayers want to find out where the limit is when it comes to rating which is quite ok for most of us. But if you take a dip in rating to serious you will destroy the pleasure playing chess for yourself. There are days when you succeed all the time and sometimes it´s just the opposite. That´s life.
Play for fun, strive to improve, and as Bill and Ted said, be excellent to one another.

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