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[mrfreeeze]

Guess the ELO: Nelson edition! I'm so pumped 🔥

[mickeynotmouse]

putting herculean amounts of effort into avoiding saying "guess the ELO"

[cytechflow]

Hey! I’m Nelson’s editor and I just wanted to let it be known that I did not intentionally pick bad games for this. My method was 100% random!

I went to his friends, chose a random player, chose the first rapid game I saw that was within 20-50 moves, and then skipped through to make sure it was at least somewhat interesting. The order was also random and I didn’t move around the games.

It just happened to work out this way lol

My aim is to make them as fair and random as possible!

[Muladeseis]

I think that your friend trolled you a bit hehe, he picked good games by low rating players, and bad games by high rating players.

[flotto]

Dont worry about the 1900 one, that was straight up trolling.

[danielyuan]

I think your editor intentionally picked games with crazy inaccurate ratings. Which I don't feel like is fair, because that artifically adds a _huge_ bias in the ratings and only mess up Nelson's sense of judgement in future episodes.

If the editor is reading this, just don't look at the ratings when picking games. That way actually guessing the ratings will be more fair and unbiased, and will be more fun.

[justdata]

In all fairness, if your editor is picking games that are not typical of the rating of the players, maybe they just had a freakish game and played like players in another range that once in a hundred games, then you shouldn't feel bad about being off by so much.

[THEEXCEPTIONofficial]

I think we found a replacement for levy🥶

[jber]

Do more of these… I love seeing that 1900s miss the same tactics I miss

[thoughlifegaming]

You should not judge that 1900 elo player by only one game, you know how hard it is to reach that level

[AdamtheRed-]

You're watching a bunch of players who should have signed up for your breaking 1500 course.

[david]

17:19 if I got opponents who played like this I'd win way more games, I'm an 1100 and that looked like a game between 700's to me

[viktor]

I like a lot that you were honest about not beeing accurate in guessing the elo.

[BasilVT]

9:55 looks like they went Ne8 to protect against Qxc7 while also blocking check

[maheswarbicol]

How are the second and third game much worse than the first, I legitimately thought they were 700

[williamsquires]

In the first game, black trades away the white knight protecting the d4 square, then consistently misses the fork on the knight and bishop.

[Thanos-snap-feminism]

Please do some more Guess the rating videos

[AkihabaraWasteland]

I think what this proves is that players below 2000 are wildly inconsistent, no matter how high or low. Consistency is the hallmark of a good player.

[blueckaym]

It would be interesting to check also with the engine eval of the players' rating for that specific game, because it could be anomaly.
For example I'm the measly 1007 ELO, but I have about 66% wins, so I think I have some potential for progress, but I was annoyed by the stupid blunders I made, and I switched back to playing bots and puzzles and watching YT chess videos in the hope I'll train my brain to spot mistakes before I try to get few hundred more ELO.
My point is the engine eval on my games has varied from 100 to 1900 (yes apparently I have played worse than Martin :D), and while my ELO fits nicely in the middle, it varies greatly.

[uzairshahazad]

Playing with your oponnents yourself and guess their rating would be more fun too..