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"On Lichess, as far as I can tell, I have to scan the list of games, compare them to my rating (which I can't even see on the main screen, and don't trust at all since it swung +150 points on my first game..), and then pick from the list."

Or you can just host a game and wait for someone to find you?

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Indeed. Lichess also does autopairing, so when someone else creates a 10+10 game, you'll get paired without anyone needing to scan the seek list.

I haven't used Lichess much, so I hadn't discovered this. It's not very obvious as far as I can tell. I hope that it would also do matchmaking approximately based on rating?

(Though, as I mentioned, I still don't trust my rating at all since my first ranked win gave me 150 rating points. Chess.com's give closer to 8-20, as I recall, which is much more credible. Specifically, I don't trust that my rating varied by 150 in one game, but the range of ratings I see on the front page is only about 1500-1800.. so it seems as though I just skipped almost the entire range in a single game.)

That's because you have a provisional rating for the first few games (it should show up as 1553? or 1250?). Your rating will swing for the first 15-20 games, at which point you'll see the 8-20 fluctuation.

It's likely that you've played quite a few games on Chess.com already.

I have played a lot on Chess.com. Perhaps they did the same thing and I forgot - not sure. Nevertheless, I'm calling it because I found it offputting when I tried to switch to Lichess.

And get paired over and over again with 1900s trying to up their rating beating 1200s?

No thanks.

1. You can't up your rating beating players 400+ rating below you. The ELO system just do not allow it, you are gonna start winning zero points per win.

2. Playing against stronger players is not that bad, this a way to became a stronger player.

Or, I could just play on chess.com and not have to deal with it.

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