How does your chess.com rating compare to your USCF rating?

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GMScuzzBall

How does your chess.com rating compare to your USCF rating?

notmtwain
ChessGodExtreme wrote:

How does your chess.com rating compare to your USCF rating?

Which Chess.com rating do you want to compare to what I assume you mean is the USCF OTB slow chess rating?   Standard? How should games with an average 15 minute time control compare to those games played with a 1 hour minimum time control?

I don't often play standard chess here because of problems with opponents abandoning games and long waits.  I don't think that a blitz rating should match an OTB rating.

I understand that ratings really can't be compared between systems because any particular rating only measures a player in comparison with other players in that system.  The rating "2000" is meaningless, unless you know what system it is from.

leiph18

I've been gone a bit, but IIRC online tends to be (sometimes much) higher than USCF, blitz tends to be a little lower. Standard tends to be higher. I don't know about bullet.  So at a quick glance you'd be rated very guess-timatedly at 1600-1800. That's enough for you to go ahead and enter a reasonable rating section for your first tournament, so go for it! Find out how good you are by going to some tournaments!

Lets say I tell you which is the most reliable. It still depends user to user. You may take your online or blitz games much more, or less, seriously than the average people who were used to make the convenient statistic.

Best way to find out how you compare is to play some OTB tournaments. Best way before that is to find a club and play some longer games with members there. Talk about the game afterwards, compare knowledge, and you can give yourself a rough estimate (you can even ask their opinion).

xXxENDERxXx

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chesscom-vs-uscffide-rating

IMpatzer

Whats uscf?? Reminds me of unicef is it a charity

Like that?

Dodger111

USCF 1800

Chess,com 1450.

I like to drink and play online chess plus I usually have too many games going on

GMScuzzBall

Thanks!!

RonaldJosephCote

        About the same, but my USCF rating is "provisional". I have to play a couple more OTB to make it official.Frown