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yeah with all that hairs on.

Oh, it got worse...

was that around John Lennon time ?

probably...

Hey Clifton, tend your lettuce and quit cropping the photos.

Odd, I thought that last word was spelled with an 'a'....

Sure, but what about a noob trying to answer the question to someone who's as clueless as he is?  The noob has no idea whether he's being fed total twaddle as feedback and instruction.  Sometimes a situation of blind leading the blind can still result in a decent understanding of a topic, but I don't think chess is one of those topics.  Certainly, one blind party shouldn't be charging the other for visual descriptions.

hey ! to that kid whose rating is 1349 and claiming to be "an expert," knock it off ! You got a loooooong way to go be a "an expert".

Hey kid, don't forget to renew your uscf membership which expire by the end of this month.

someone keeps distracting me and I'm stuck there because my mom said I can't get up...

my mom's silly

Check out the latest claim "Coach" makes on his profile page.  The second image is an interesting chart from plycount.com and shows the only mention I can find of a USCF rating for an Albert Tam from California.  Anyone know what Q and R categories are?  The 5 games contributing to the rating were in an age section level that appears to be for 6-year-olds.

BTW, PawnPusher3, the guy questioning his rating in the note in the first image, is himself the fellow who in his own coaching profile describes his rating as "approximately 2000 USCF (expert level)" but does not list the actual rating.

PP3 has been caught out fibbing about his rating and his strength. The enormity of the discrepancy between his official USCF rating (1349) and his claimed strength (c. 2000 USCF) is a little breathtaking.

He's been caught before, though--just few weeks ago in fact.

He started a thread offering his coaching services but when he was exposed for something quite a bit less than what he first pretended to be, he asked staff to delete the thread. It's still in google cache, in large part, so his attempt to destroy the evidence wasn't fully effective.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NHhegm0EFQIJ:boardreader.com/thread/Looking_for_Determined_Students_who_want_31v3x__looking-for-determined-students-who-want-to-improve.html+pawnpusher3+Looking+for+Determined&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Staff then placed some real world info about this coach's USCF achievements into his coaching profile whereupon PP3 deleted that profile, only to place a new profile minus the info staff had placed therein.

This is a fraud. He shouldn't be allowed, in my opinion, to claim strength or credentials that he can't prove, especially as he is charging for his lessons.

I'm afraid PP3 has no credibility. He's been caught lying about not just his strength but his actual rating. He's a serial liar when it comes to his strength and rating, for some reason, but if you read kco's notes you'll see him proclaiming how much he values his integrity. I think such behavior makes him a poor representative as a Chess.com coach.

I would think this would merit account termination, or at the very least a permanent termination of his sanctioned "coaching" status on chess.com.

I'm not sure how much staff cares about this. I'd like to hear from them on this matter to be sure.

Ha-- apparently one of these little scam artists is receving coaching services from the other.  Coaching on chess or grifting, I wonder?

Well I don't understand how you can criticize me goldendog, since as far as I can tell, you can't even move the pieces. Guess that explains why you are unrated? Im not here to dispute a current rating USCF. If you don't want lessons from me, don't worry, I am not forcing you to buy anything. I tell all my students any information that they want about my OTB rating, my teaching style, and I ask them what they want to learn. My lessons are cheap and reasonable, and I have a 100% satisfaction rate.

You're missing the point pp3.

You are open to criticism from anyone, PP3. All they have to do is work off the facts, as I have done, and they won't have to back off any of their claims.

If you could have just backed off your grandiose claims of expert-hood, all would have been well I expect, but for some reason you can't accept the notion that you're not really expert strength.

Why should anyone respect such garbage? I wonder why anyone would want a kid for a coach who is always telling tales about his strength--no, not only his strength in such nonsensical terms as "estimated ratings" but out and out lies.

See here:

and this:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/unorthodoxsurprise-openings

As you can see, as everyone can see, you were lying more than a year ago about being expert strength, in fact claiming that your rating was 1988.

I have your USCF page, and your real rating at the time was 894. That's right, you added 1000 points to your rating. Maybe it's an improvement that you are now only adding 650 points to your true USCF to get your "estimated" 2000?

You have a serious lying problem. Either tell smaller ones or cover your tracks better? Better yet, follow Twain's advice: When in doubt, tell the truth.

You should muster up some shame, and you should amend your coach profile to square with what staff added last time, before you deleted it.

and pp3 you don't really need to send another kid to tell me all these shit too.

  "I think the fact is that he is bothered because he is wrong. He knows he can't beat me, and doesn't want to admit he is wrong. That is just what trolls do. Thanks for being there for me :)"  that was on my homepage, me bothered is because you send that kid around to me, telling me all this crap, what I am really bothered is that you are lying so much.