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How do you measure Elo?

Strange thing about me, I have more tendency to win against strong players than weaker ones lol "is it because i have solely trained myself on their style?" the curious thing is I have my share of winning against 2000-2100 Raters, Yet sometimes I lose to 1800'ers? I guess what Im asking here is the rating here Legit? and How can you really tell what your Elo is? is it by the number of wins,or the opponent level you can beat at your full effort?

Anyone know if there is a way to measure your elo accurately?
Play at a club otb against rated club players and do so for over 100 games and you'll have a pretty good idea of your actual ELO.
The Elo rating system is just a mathematical operation based on the inputs of your rating, your opponent's rating, the result of the game (win/draw/loss) and the uncertainty value (which determines the degree to which your rating will increase).

Your Elo rating can't be "measured" so much as calculated based exclusively on these variables.

As shadow said, after about 100 rated games using the Elo system, you'll have a fairly stable and accurate approximation of your relative skill level.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Thank you for your reply. I think I have a better understanding of how it work now, however I think there are certain factors that arent included in the rating measurement whereas I believe they should be, and there are certain qualities about some people that makes it hard to almost impossible to determine their true Elo imo, so lets just say thatin most cases Elo is a theoretical rating of your skills rather than actual :)
You seem to be confused on one point. There's no such thing as a "true" Elo. Your Elo rating is just the result of a set of mathematical operations applied to the variables.

There is no absolute value determining a good player and a bad player.

It's merely a statistical approximation of the ability of a player relative to another player.

i.e. a 2000 rated player would be expected to beat a 1000 rated player.

Even if you had a group of 100 people, all of whom were terrible at chess and you applied the rating algorithm to a large number of their games with each other- you would see very high ratings, and extremely low ratings (assuming there was a spread from mediocre to atrocious).

This is because the Elo system is relative - it's not a measure of your skill level, it's a measure of your ability to beat other players.

Hope this helps, Cheers.
Yes thats exactly what I was getting at, you explained it very well, Thank you!
On the subject of getting more wins against better players: I have noticed in other sports that one can tend to lower one's performance against lesser players. (Not that I can be distinguished from lesser players.)

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