Since when is Hogwarts castle in Uganda?
Beating opponents rated 800 to 900 pts higher than myself, often!
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I just thought it would be a pretty flag next to my name.
Ok so actually, nobody is going to be shocked, becuase a lot of players in the USCF are underrated. People kinda come to expect it. Especially if you are only 800..... And, they won't lose 50 points if you don't have an established rating, do you?
You are right. I was able to find my old rating by looking to buy a new membership on the USCF site, and my rating is still provisional, with a mere 10 games played. I guess a loss to me wouldn't have the ratings bite I thought it would, lol.
You know what, I wonder if they take into account how well you do in the tournament... for example, does losing to an 800 with 0-4 take away as many points as losing to an 800 with 4-0 in the same tournament?
I've played a 740-rated who beat pretty much anybody 1600 and under.
Ron Weasley... Uganda?
FirebrandX wrote:
Ron-Weasley wrote:
I was thinking about getting a USCF membership again and playing a couple tournaments, just for the sport of saying I beat people rated 800 points more than myself. The look on my opponents face when I tell them I'm rated 820 USCF, and to look for the 50 point drop in theirs will make it all worth it.
Refer to my blog's entry here about sandbaggers:
http://www.chess.com/blog/FirebrandX/chess-players-hall-of-shame
Though you wouldn't be technically losing games to sandbag, your desire to screw people over falls in exactly the same category of mental behavior.
I think it would be just the opposite of sandbagging. It would be winning on purpose and intent, not losing. Stinging a few club players ratings and feelings would just be a side benefit. After a couple games I think my rating would adjust to my true strength and it wouldn't matter anymore. lol
Yeah FirebrandX has dumb arguments in that article XD *gets labbeled as devils advocate*
Besides, even if you had "pure intentions" you would still have the same tournament result.... with the same rating...
qablo wrote:
I think you should play for fun, because you like to play chess. Playing thinking about ratings it´s very stupid to be honest.
agreed
If I remember correctly, USCF tournaments are based on the average rating of the field, not your opponent. So you would drag everyone down some, but not do too much damage to one person.
I am a little bit in the same boat. My USCF is in the mid-1200's but I have done a lot of playing, tactics trainer, chess mentor, and watched chess videos since I stopped playing live about 16 months ago. OTB chess is great and all, but if you are going to pay to play I would get a diamond membership here first.
Sep 7, 2013
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I think that you will find the competition much tougher than you imagine. Your Chess.com rating is about the same as mine, so I would assume that your USCF rating would be similar to mine (1350). Beating 1000-1400's is tough enough. 1500's and above are another story.
Sep 11, 2013
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Ron-Weasley wrote:
So I was in a couple tournaments when I was a little kid and I have an official USCF rating. My rating is 820. I earned it. But I haven't been in a tournament since I was a little kid, and in that time I've played chess online over the years. On a couple chess websites I have beaten 1800 players, while performing more usually in the 1400- 1600 range depending on the site. How do online ratings compare to USCF ratings? For instance I generally play game 30s and not usually blitz.
I was thinking about getting a USCF membership again and playing a couple tournaments, just for the sport of saying I beat people rated 800 points more than myself. The look on my opponents face when I tell them I'm rated 820 USCF, and to look for the 50 point drop in theirs will make it all worth it.
Why don't you just go and play OTB to show what you're really made of ?
So I was in a couple tournaments when I was a little kid and I have an official USCF rating. My rating is 820. I earned it. But I haven't been in a tournament since I was a little kid, and in that time I've played chess online over the years. On a couple chess websites I have beaten 1800 players, while performing more usually in the 1400- 1600 range depending on the site. How do online ratings compare to USCF ratings? For instance I generally play game 30s and not usually blitz.
I was thinking about getting a USCF membership again and playing a couple tournaments, just for the sport of saying I beat people rated 800 points more than myself. The look on my opponents face when I tell them I'm rated 820 USCF, and to look for the 50 point drop in theirs will make it all worth it.