FOSSDLE PieFedI cant be the only one that sucks at playing against humans but am OK against bots???
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basically, I have a lot of anxiety when playing with people, and my ranking is around 600ish, but whenever i play a bot the analysis suggests that i paid played at level 1100 or 1500.
The moment you start playing for ELO instead of fun is the moment you should reconsider playing.
The estimated ELO, I think, is mostly based on accuracy. It may be that it's much easier for you to play accurately against a bot than a more erratic human player.
I think my anxiety kicks in when I play other people, and I make massive blunders.
It's very difficult to write a chess bot that plays like a human. They've improved in recent years in their human-ness but will still make very obvious mistakes that a human player is unlikely to make even at low Elo. This makes them a fairly poor substitute for real players if you want to practise and improve.
Rating anxiety is also common in games that have rankings systems. There are various strategies for avoiding rating anxiety, but you could try setting yourself your own goal such as "I'm going to play 5 games against human players regardless of the outcomes" and try to disconnect your performance and rating from your sense of accomplishment. If you analyse your losses and learn from your mistakes then even if you lose you are gaining something, so you should have less anxiety about losing before you start playing.
TF is wrong with me.
Or are those estimated ELO 100% bs?
I mean bots and humans play pretty differently in a lot of games. I'm not much of a chess person but I could absolutely see you being good at defeating one playstyle and struggling with another
I'd just think you need more practice against people, and you'll learn how to play against that playstyle too