Chess Rating Inflation Competition

I think I'm from 1100-1200 USCF, not quite sure though

Alright ...

I know, but will not name a USCF C class player that is well over 2300 on this site. That's more than 800 points inflated.

In my opinion, this "competition" is almost trivial for two reasons:

1. There seems to be some sort of inherent inflation of the chess.com ratings with respect to USCF or FIDE ratings.

2. On chess.com, the "online" rating is difficult to compare mainly because the players get to "choose their time control". Essentially, you can take anywhere from five seconds to five hours to make your move on any given game. For me, the extra time I spent thinking starting in mid-summer of this year almost instantly shot my rating up 200 points. That comes from just an extra minute or two of thinking per move. And that's clearly different from an OTB game, where time pressure is a problem.

Anyway, I don't want to ruin the fun, so I'll throw in my own ratings.

Here, I am roughly 1820. Lately, it's been going back and forth between 1800 and 1840.

My USCF rating? Roughly 1080. I do believe that that's a 740 point difference. =P

For the record, I have only played in two OTB tournaments and I have reason to believe that I have improved since then.

1600 or 1700 OSCF

oscf uses the same rating system as uscf

ChessNetwork's got a bullet rating of 4200. You do the math.

 What's it to ya?

I need to check that out 

My USCF is 525P, after one tournament.    I suspect that once I make it through provisional, I'll be around 800-1000.    MY current standard rating here is 1268.

In my experience,  website rated players tend to play a little worse then USCF rated players.  

My Poker Stars rating score is higer than my Chess.com turn-based chess rating. It's the same to compare FIDE or USCF rating to some online chess groups rating. A rating system mesures the relative strenght of a player compared to the others players of the same group. Doesn't make sense to compare the rating socore of diferent groups.

because lots of non-chessplayers love to troll on random sites related to chess 

i think you pinned his motive perfectly

 Are you implying that I'm the only one who ever jokes around here? I joined this site to learn how to play, and I've got somes games going now.

I find it very ignorant of people to think they can somehow deduce someone's secret motives from their chess rating. Just because his rating is low, and he is honest about his desire to improve, it does not follow that he is therefore a troll. I think there is a distribution of abilities and chess knowledge and a person's placement along that distribution  does not have much at all to do with an individual's secret motivations for posting on a chess site. Woodshover is in many games, and is in groups to develop his chess knowledge. 

Your snap judgement of him would apply to those people who have the same 1200 rating they started with, and with no record of any chess games in their profile, but I don't think it applies to him.

I think a lot of people on here don't really understand what rating inflation is.  Rating inflation is where the ratings of one type increase over time, just like currency.  What most people are talking about are discrepencies between different ratings.

For example 1 US doller is not worth 1 Euro which is not worth 1 Yen, ect.  Just like how the rating points for USCF, FIDE, Chess.com, ect are not equal.  The US dollar is inflated compared to the US dollar from 2000.  In chess this means that someone with a USCF rating of 1400 ten years ago is likely stronger than a 1400 now, if inflation occured.

@ncubbie: True. I think that perhaps a better title would be "Rating Overestimation" or something of the like. Any inflation in chess rating is usually quite small and is much more difficult to calculate.

My OTB rating is about 160 and my chess.com about 1800.

(ecf tee hee)

You don't get the point dude.

My OTB is 1430 while my chess.com is around 1200 or 1300. I time out way too much.