on 'deserving' your rating
A number of people who have had good tournaments recently have questioned here whether they 'deserve' their rating.
A rating is not Platonic. Your ideal rating is not floating in the heavens somewhere.
The ratings are self-defining. They are based on their own set of criteria. Your rating at any given point is defined only by those criteria and are merely the sum total of what you have done up to that point to achieve it.
Therefore ....
If you have that rating, you deserve that rating, because you did whatever you had to do to get that rating
Don't tell yourself any differently and don't let anybody else do so. Just enjoy it while it lasts.
A rating is not Platonic. Your ideal rating is not floating in the heavens somewhere.
The ratings are self-defining. They are based on their own set of criteria. Your rating at any given point is defined only by those criteria and are merely the sum total of what you have done up to that point to achieve it.
Therefore ....
If you have that rating, you deserve that rating, because you did whatever you had to do to get that rating
Don't tell yourself any differently and don't let anybody else do so. Just enjoy it while it lasts.