Looking at a 2500 rating here without taking it in the context of how it was reached is almost meaningless.
There are a large number of players on the site who could relatively easily reach 2500 simply by playing a large number of games against substantially lower-rated opponents.
The fact that a player can (with a subscription) play a potentially huge number of games against individually-selected opponents (or even the same opponent) means that a 2500 rating here is almost completely different than a "real world" 2500 rating.
Ratings here can have individual value as a measure of relative progress (assuming one plays the same people), but is almost valueless in comparison to any other chess rating.
I have several real world chess friends who also play on the site, and all of our ratings here are anywhere from 100 to 500 points higher than our equivalent USCF ratings (one of our friends plays strongly at the club, but when we try to get him into a tournament, the clock turns him into jelly). Our running joke is that our ratings here are like Weimar Republic marks.
Originally posted by Paul LeggettWell said!
Looking at a 2500 rating here without taking it in the context of how it was reached is almost meaningless.
There are a large number of players on the site who could relatively easily reach 2500 simply by playing a large number of games against substantially lower-rated opponents.
The fact that a player can (with a subscription) play a potentiall ...[text shortened]... ns him into jelly). Our running joke is that our ratings here are like Weimar Republic marks.
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Originally posted by RJHindsRJ, just shut it. Perhaps some players on here are willing to put up with your ill humors because they are kinder than I am; however, we all know you are a charlatan. However, why is your rating 700 points higher than your USCF rate? We all know why and it's not because you use an analyze board. Your comments show a lack of understanding that your play does not show. Stop ruining perfectly fine threads with your input.
Because maybe it is, duh.... Did I whip your arse before?
I've read several places you post because you think you have something to add to the forums, well you simply don't. You just take away from them.
Originally posted by w0lver1neMy rating here is 100 points lower than my current USCF(2059).
My own rating here is about 300 points higher than my OTB rating and the same seems to be true for many players.
So if nobody here is above 2500, perhaps it is because nobody here has an OTB rating over 2200.
My high rating in USCF is 2159.
Originally posted by caissad4Probably because you have 468 games in progress. I used to have problems managing 80 how do you cope?
My rating here is 100 points lower than my current USCF(2059).
My high rating in USCF is 2159.
On the general point correspondence chess is not over the board chess. Once you get past around 1800 the correlation between OTB ratings and correspondence ratings isn't going to be that strong, for one thing the visualization skills you need over the board aren't significant in correspondence, where analysis boards save you the trouble.
My ECF rating is 126(D) which corresponds to something around 1,600 FIDE, which is about 350 lower than my highest rating here.
