Hi everyone. I searched the forums for an answer to this, but couldn't really find a recent thread about it, and since these things can change over time, I thought it would be best to ask:
How does the different chess.com ratings correlate?
Specifically, what rating gaps would you consider abnormal, to a degree where you choose not to play this person? I play online chess. My rating has been increasing rapidly, and I see many already in the 1800-2000 range who have established blitz and/or tactics ratings in the 1200-1400 range or worse. I don't want to play cheaters, but I also know that many players are just not good at blitz (for many sorts of reasons), and I hardly want to exclude them or contribute to like an air of suspicion around them. I'm not a stellar blitz player myself and I suspect from what I see so far that my online rating will surpass my blitz rating by a wide margin (though nowhere near an 800 point gap).
What do experienced players on here say about this? Do you check your opponents raitings? At what point do you say "Really? Forget it, I'm not playing this guy"?
The reason you don't see a lot is because this type of thread inevitably degrades into cheating accusations. Those conversations are reserved for the Cheating Forum. (You have to apply.)
I think you should forget about it at this point. 400 points is not a lot. If you see gaps approaching 1000 points, I would start to be concerned.
More people are concerned about the lack of any apparent correlation between chess.com ratings and FIDE ratings or US Chess Federation ratings There have been many threads on that and they all conclude that ratings reflect relative strength within a group and cannot be compared. Ratings are relative (this is much hotter than that!) and not absolute (like the temperature that water boils at sea level) and they only reflect the particular group being measured.
So a 2000 in online chess on chess.com is not 2000 in blitz on chess.com or 2000 in a FIDE rating. A more accurate comparison would look at the ratings curves for each rating and seeing where the rating fits onto the curves. (You can view the rating distribution curves at: http://www.chess.com/livechess/players ) A rating far above the median in one type should not be matched with a rating far below the median in another.
Last year Chess.com did an adjustment to live standard ratings because they were so skewed that international masters were getting upset at their 1800 ratings.
You should read up on ratings theory and the Glicko RD to better understand whether or not ratings are considered to be good predictors of game performance.
So far, you are 17-0 in online chess and 6-0 in blitz. One thing that indicates is that your ratings are not accurate. (For the record, they are 1910 in online and 1814 in blitz now.)
This is reflected in the high 164 point Glicko RD for your current blitz rating. As I understand it, that means that there is a 95% chance that your true rating is within 164 points on either side of its current 1814.
Who knows what your own ratings gap will be when you find some players who can beat you?
Hi everyone.
I searched the forums for an answer to this, but couldn't really find a recent thread about it, and since these things can change over time, I thought it would be best to ask:
How does the different chess.com ratings correlate?
Specifically, what rating gaps would you consider abnormal, to a degree where you choose not to play this person? I play online chess. My rating has been increasing rapidly, and I see many already in the 1800-2000 range who have established blitz and/or tactics ratings in the 1200-1400 range or worse. I don't want to play cheaters, but I also know that many players are just not good at blitz (for many sorts of reasons), and I hardly want to exclude them or contribute to like an air of suspicion around them. I'm not a stellar blitz player myself and I suspect from what I see so far that my online rating will surpass my blitz rating by a wide margin (though nowhere near an 800 point gap).
What do experienced players on here say about this? Do you check your opponents raitings? At what point do you say "Really? Forget it, I'm not playing this guy"?