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Why is my rapid rating on chess.com 1462 but my USCF regular is only 758.

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idk

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USCF is a lot more cruel then chess.com, I guess.

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I see that you're from Washington, so I will say that there is a bit of deflation compared to the rest of the nation in terms of USCF. That being said, chess.com ratings are pretty commonly much higher than OTB ratings in general regardless of your geographical location (probably around +300-500 for most people). Do you have a NWSRS (Northwest rating system) rating that might be higher than your USCF? For people under 1800 that tends to be a more accurate predictor of strength.

If it helps at all, you could try playing some dual rated (standard/rapid) OTB events with time controls like G25 and G45 to see if it makes a difference (if you haven't been already), since you seem to be decent at time controls like 10 min and 30 min online. 758 is a pretty extreme case but sometimes people just do worse in classical against the same opponents in rapid events, or do worse in OTB in general than online. Think of things like time management, opening repertoire (at your level, being able to have something you can play confidently and not lose out of the opening on, doesn't have to be more than a few lines) and finding tactics and calculations that you might struggle with particularly OTB that you could improve on over time.

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maybe try to play better

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Could be many factors here. In general people take USCF events more seriously than a rapid chess.com match. A USCF match is generally way longer time control. Don't underestimate how different a match of 60-minute chess is than a 10-minute rapid match. You can get away with loose play in a rapid chess.com match. USCF OTB on the other hand, your opponent will generally calculate and punish inaccuracies. I'm usually around 1600 chess.com rapid but only 1100s for USCF. When I talk to other players at my level at my club, the rating difference between chess.com and USCF, is generally 400-500. One player claims a chess.com rating of 2100, but is only 1300 USCF. My advice would be to treat the two ratings as separate and distinct things.

Avatar of Rooster-1992AIC

I am 1750 online and 1042 OTB. A lot of people just don't have OTB ratings that match their online ones.

Avatar of Zownds

dude washington uscf deflation is no joke... its baddd

Avatar of CRHer700

Honestly I don't have this issue much. My USCF is 1009 right now, my chess.com rapid is about 200 higher, and my chess.com blitz is about 100 lower.

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I'm a 900 USCF/1334 elo player (at my highest)

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im 1750 reg its so sad

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I see that you're from Washington, so I will say that there is a bit of deflation compared to the rest of the nation in terms of USCF. That being said, chess.com ratings are pretty commonly much higher than OTB ratings in general regardless of your geographical location (probably around +300-500 for most people). Do you have a NWSRS (Northwest rating system) rating that might be higher than your USCF? For people under 1800 that tends to be a more accurate predictor of strength.

If it helps at all, you could try playing some dual rated (standard/rapid) OTB events with time controls like G25 and G45 to see if it makes a difference (if you haven't been already), since you seem to be decent at time controls like 10 min and 30 min online. 758 is a pretty extreme case but sometimes people just do worse in classical against the same opponents in rapid events, or do worse in OTB in general than online. Think of things like time management, opening repertoire (at your level, being able to have something you can play confidently and not lose out of the opening on, doesn't have to be more than a few lines) and finding tactics and calculations that you might struggle with particularly OTB that you could improve on over time.

My NWSRS rating is 990.

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I am at 1648 uscf otb and have hit 2k on here but at the moment am in the high 17s and on a good day low 18s. Is about a 200 pt difference on average I've found comparing about 200 random folks with people sporting roughly a 175-200 pt higher chess.com rating then uscf. uscf tends to be about 100 higher then fide I've seen and foa roughly 100 to 200 pts lower or the same as fide(?) but haven't done a random sample yet to see and find out what the average is. I've about 1530 over there though and my Peak is a 1691

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I think the adult under is brutal from what I've seen locally here in northern co and is why it can be harder to get up i think then in scholastic or playing in upper/open sections sometimes.

Avatar of BlunderingKnight101

Around 5 years ago, almost everyone's ratings went down 200 points. During the next year or so.

I thought chess.com might be trying to get their ratings closer to USCF. Maybe losing points were raised.

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im 1750 reg its so sad

Bruh Im really 2300 online and 1600 otb stop crying 😂

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im 1750 reg its so sad

Bruh Im really 2300 online and 1600 otb stop crying 😂

hahaha wilddd I'm 2200 but my otb is still so low

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I’m 1000 OTB and 1700 online

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I'm from Washington and I would say that you are a bit underrated depending on the tournaments that you played to gain your rating, I'm sadly overrated right now though

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I'm from Washington and I would say that you are a bit underrated depending on the tournaments that you played to gain your rating, I'm sadly overrated right now though

If you're overrated, that means you're super close to a title.