How do you determine your OTB rating?

After 25 games it isn't provisional. I know because I have 22 rated games and it is still a provisional rating.

lol@NASCAR analogy

JJ, the Continental Class Championships are coming up next month in Virginia. http://www.chesstour.com/cocc10.htm

You should play in the u900 section. It's only two days. 7 games, $75 entry fee.

Ask your parents now so they'll have time to consider it. 

You won't get an official rating after the tourney but you'll get an unofficial one which you could look up online.

I know it's a long drive but it could be a fun road trip. 

There is also the Tracy Collins Memorial in NC at the end of October http://main.uschess.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,199/

HELLO GUYS!!!

I don't live in the US of A, but I want to determine my USCF rating.

Please tell me what my USCF rating is?

Thanks in advance.

xoxo

heinzie

heinzie; your USCF rating is somewhere between 48 and 5002. 

Hope that helps!

It must've changed by now but for awhile the USCF allowed someone to take a test using some chess software and they would get a low-range provisional rating that they could take into their first tournament game.

All very official.

And how u play those tournament... I mean not only in USA. U just see ohhh there is tournament I will go to play or we have some proces we must go trought to play on some tournament.

tnx anyone who answer me.

yes usually you can just go to the tournament (make sure you get there at least a couple hours before it starts) and you can register there. at least that's how it is in the USA.

if you want to make sure, just contact the organizers and ask them if you need to do anything else

:) didn't know. i was thinking that i can not play tournament just like that.

tnx

well i'm not sure about europe but in the USA the tourneys allow unrated players to play. contact the organizers and ask them just to be sure.

Wow, I wish that was true, my national rating is more than 500 points below my correspondance rating on here.

Well you'll note that I emphasized that it was a way to estimate your rating. I did not claim it would be absolutely true in every case or anything like that. I have observed a number of discussions and situations on this subject here on chess.com and that is what I based my figure on. Perhaps it would be more like 300 on average. I certainly admit that I can't be certain. From my observation, a deviation of more than 500 would not be the average situation.

Which ratings are you comparing? I think USCF and FIDE ratings are also slightly off from each other.

Well most of my observations have been based on FIDE ratings. But as you mentioned USCF and FIDE ratings are only slightly different. Trying to estimate a national rating equivalency based on your chess.com rating is, admittedly, not that precise. So I would probably use the same estimate, regardless of whether I was comparing to USCF or FIDE ratings.

The USCF website is horribly outdated in many places. That FAQ about ratings is one of those places. I didn't find an official place where the number is listed at 25 provisional games in a quick search of the rulebook or the site. I know that value is listed somewhere, just didn't find it when looking.

However, if you check out my ratings on the site you will see where I was still provisional with 24 rated games.

I see a few people genuinely trying to help a 13 y/o kids and a LOT of people trying to run him away from chess.

Sad.

JJN2, your best bet might be to look into scholastic chess.  At one time, NC had a thriving scholastic chess scene in the triangle area.  Do you know if your school or and of the neighboring schools have chess clubs/teams?  The USCF offers start up kits for schools trying to start scholastic programs, you just need a teacher to sponser a club, fill out the paperwork, and help raise the modest (around $40 I think?) fee.  Scholastic chess is a great way to get involved in rated sanctioned chess playing at the middle school level.

Good luck and KEEP PLAYING!

There still is. And there is in Charlotte and the Triad as well. Beaufort, though, is not near any of this.

JJN2, You said you played games with people in "tournament conditions" (paraphrasing). Seems like there's enough people (kids?) around to put a club together and hold rated events. If it's mostly or all kids, a scholastic club that holds USCF rated events would be a great idea. I bet your school would help out. Maybe other schools in the area would catch on.

ok......

I wondered why something like this wouldn't be acceptable, but I've never heard of it so thought it didn't exist (like you said it may not now).  Just a test that could provide a reasonable range, then you have the option of taking the that rating (the lowest of the range) or just go in like a regular provisional player.

Of course some scholastic kid rated 900 with a playing strength of 1300 could manipulate it by purposely doing poorly...

My school is trying to recieve a grant to start a chess team.

is chess.com rating true?and is it equal to otb