I would NOT play in these tournaments.
USCF-rated games on chess.com
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Sure - I believe it is possible to cheat on chess.com AND get away with it. For example: A person can pull up an engine on a phone and play on a computer at the same time (maybe not playing the best move every time but avoiding bad moves) and that way winning without being caught. This way they are not flipping back and forth between screens on the computer and chess.com can't register that they are using a computer. (I know how their tracking system works and they use players leaving the page as one piece of evidence that they are using a computer). This method avoids that, and the player won't the caught.
Second, is a matter of preference. I'm not as good at playing online as I am over-the-board, so playing online may hurt my rating.
Third, I don't see how playing for USCF rating really helps me unless I am playing for money.
I can't play this tournament because I don't have a USCF rating
Aug 28, 2020
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OK, thanks for your input. I know there's a concern about cheating, although I think it's overblown. There are things that can be done - the consequences of cheating in a USCF-rated game are much higher than normal online chess, so that itself should be a disincentive. The idea of USCF-rated chess is that the players might be a bit more serious minded, and games might be a bit higher quality. We could try a lot more options that just G10/0 on Thursday every week - basically replicating the tournaments that the club used to have on Thursdays, tornadoes on Saturdays, championship series, etc.
Also - for the record - the USCF online ratings are totally different from the USCF Regular or Quick ratings - so any online activity will NOT affect the USCF ratings you are used to.
Oh well, I suspect the concerns about cheating will keep us from have USCF-rated games, but I wish the club was willing to try something new.
I'm just wondering if anyone is interested in the Cincinnati Chess Club having USCF-rated tournaments online on chess.com?