Why is USCF such a struggle for me sometimes?

I really struggle with USCF rated tournaments. I feel like my rating pools are just so much higher then what they should be. I have about a 1200 uscf and I feel like it should be higher since I see so many 1300s and others with higher ratings of 1300+ uscf. I guess I shouldn't care about rating too much but then again, it kinda stings you when someone much lower rated has a higher uscf.

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USCF ratings and online ratings don't have a strong correlation to each other, so I wouldn't beat myself up about it if I were you.

ye true

Be on guard if your opponent is a young kid. I've been beaten by a few kids rated at 1200's only to see a few months later they're +1600. Those kids are sponges and are usually underrated through no fault of their own other than the fact that they haven't played enough games to reflect their true USCF rating.

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WHY? USCF, is a real OTB & ITF rating, an online rating is only that, an online rating. The most of us, that are any good, roll between 1600 & 1800 here, but I know a few players who are 2000 to 2400 hundred here who are maybe 'B' or A strength UCSF and with one, we have watched each play, never crossing accounts and it really seems, that there are two player pools here. One small group over 2000 where players greet and have played each and us, where it is seemingly lacking any human players that greet or chat. I beat most these fore mentioned regularly... My point is, and you shouldn't measure your OTB experience with on line ratings... there are many inconsistences here, an OTB rating is the measure of your skill against rated USCF chess players, while you chess dot com is not a rating anywhere but here...

I've not encountered the overrated pool, but many ratings on here seem to be maybe 200 points below USCF strength.

Just try hard

your rating here is accurate =/- 100 points for the time control you play in. You play 10 minute games but you are moving at blitz speed. You will not win real world rated games against players that are accustomed to taking their time to think. move fast lose fast is the general understanding. no one on line plays real world time controls. Until you find a way to slow down and really think, you will continue to get Blitz vs regular time control results.

I guess I do play my rapid games way too fast. However, I still can think when given lots of time in positions espically on OTB. Maybe I need to slow down my online play and really think about things going on in the board before playing a move instead of just playing my move automatically.

I'm not a fan of G/10. G/5, G/30, and tournament time controls are fine with me. A faster game has a certain pulse or flow wherein a player develops a sense when s/he needs to think a little longer, and when a move can be played quickly. I've never developed that for G/10. In G/10, I either take too much time and get into time trouble, or play at G/5 speed, conceding de facto clock odds to my opponent.