My thing used to be rapid and blitz. I realy dont that much about rating anymore more than standard delo since it is used in team matches.

Two rapid games I played in the event where odd. One game I played a draw against as black vs a WFM who has much hieger rating than me in standard elo. But I turned out that I lost points since I had hiegher rating than her in rapid. And in an other game was about the same thing, I played a draw vs player with much higher rating than me in standard elo but in rapid he had extremly low rating.

I play more correspondance chess than over the board chess these days with better results and have higher corr elo than over the board elo. Maybee I should only play corr chess...

Stigma wrote on 12/13/18 at 15:37:37:

Glicko-2?

I recognize this problem; facing underrated juniors was always a bit annoying, but in rapid they are sometimes extremely underrated.

But I don't think there's any real solution to this; at least all cures I can think of are worse than the disease.

The Elo system has always been based on one player gains rating points from a game while the other player loses an equivalent number of rating points (different coefficients complicate this somewhat). So these underrated juniors will naturally start getting their outdated rapid ratings up when they play rapid again, but the way the system works they have to take all those rating points from someone else. In this case you. Higher coefficients for juniors reduce this problem somewhat, but there's no perfect solution.

The best we can do is take it as a challenge and face up to those youngsters anyway. Though I admit I have sometimes avoided playing tournaments where I expected an especially high percentage of underrated juniors. A balanced mix of age groups is better.