It isn't that hard to calculate a performance rating on one's own, if one has a burning desire to see one's unrated rating. :)
One way to approximate a preformance rating that I have used in the past under various circumstances: I "score" each of my games as follows:
if I win, I add 400 points to my opponents rating, and that is my rating for just that game.
If I lose, I subtract 400 points from my opponent's rating, and that is my rating for just that game.
If I draw (oh, I'll bet nobody saw THIS one coming, ..... snicker), I take my opponent's rating for just that game.
NOW, I go back and average, game by game, the rating "scores" from the last, say, 10 games. Or 20. Whatever.
There are no doubt other ways to do this, but the one I have outlined seems to be pretty functional and easy to do.
I no longer play rated often (I used to, for many years) because I play chess for the same reason some older gentlemen water color. I can now stay utterly relaxed and unconcerned about victory and loss. My ego is kept as far out of the game as it is practical to do (admittedly, one can never completely abandon ego unless, perhaps, one dons orange robes and subsists on alms).
But, every once in a great while, I can check my home-made "performance rating" to see if I am aging gracefully or, instead, should start playing bingo, instead.
So far, other bingo players are safe from me.
One way to approximate a preformance rating that I have used in the past under various circumstances: I "score" each of my games as follows:
if I win, I add 400 points to my opponents rating, and that is my rating for just that game.
If I lose, I subtract 400 points from my opponent's rating, and that is my rating for just that game.
If I draw (oh, I'll bet nobody saw THIS one coming, ..... snicker), I take my opponent's rating for just that game.
NOW, I go back and average, game by game, the rating "scores" from the last, say, 10 games. Or 20. Whatever.
There are no doubt other ways to do this, but the one I have outlined seems to be pretty functional and easy to do.
I no longer play rated often (I used to, for many years) because I play chess for the same reason some older gentlemen water color. I can now stay utterly relaxed and unconcerned about victory and loss. My ego is kept as far out of the game as it is practical to do (admittedly, one can never completely abandon ego unless, perhaps, one dons orange robes and subsists on alms).
But, every once in a great while, I can check my home-made "performance rating" to see if I am aging gracefully or, instead, should start playing bingo, instead.
So far, other bingo players are safe from me.