So many OTB players , ESPECIALLY kids are sooooooooòooooooòo underrated.
OTB players stronger than online players?
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Last weekend there was a tournament and the third and fourth place went to non rated players with a field of non rated to 2195. Number 10 of 26 players was a 1220 rated. You never know for sure what your'e up against OTB. I have soon played 2 years OTB at my club and a few tournaments. I am still not rated. My points is-it takes years to set a realistic rating on OTB club players.
Nov 21, 2018
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Aizen89 wrote:
I have a lot of chess friends, many who play both online and OTB. I've never met a single one where their online rating matched or exceeded their USCF one. I've known people 1950 USCF who play 1750 on here, and I've known people nearly 2050 to 2100 USCF who were like 1900-ish on here. When I played both USCF and online (I do only online now), I was rated as high as 2001 USCF, but was consistently 1750 to 1850 online.
That's interesting, my rating is around 1500-1550 online (both in rapid and in correspondence) whereas I'm definitely not that high OTB. Probably more like 1300 (it's 696 at the moment but that's below what it should be). A few other players I've spoken with rated around 1000 or so for USCF are often rated at 1300-1400 online.
Perhaps it is different at higher rating levels, or perhaps regional differences could account for such discrepancies. Online ratings are international, whereas in person one region might have depressed ratings relative to the rest of the country as a result of generally higher strength players.
aidan0816 wrote:
I really agree in your last lines. At my club the level is from non rated to 1850 or so. It's though a 16 year old wonderboy (who beat Magnus Carlsen twice at the same day in OTB simultan) rated at 1550-1650 who is concidered to be the best. A monster in tactics.
The level is though. The fun part is that everybody can beat everybody on a good day.
Aizen89 wrote:
I have a lot of chess friends, many who play both online and OTB. I've never met a single one where their online rating matched or exceeded their USCF one. I've known people 1950 USCF who play 1750 on here, and I've known people nearly 2050 to 2100 USCF who were like 1900-ish on here. When I played both USCF and online (I do only online now), I was rated as high as 2001 USCF, but was consistently 1750 to 1850 online.
That's interesting, my rating is around 1500-1550 online (both in rapid and in correspondence) whereas I'm definitely not that high OTB. Probably more like 1300 (it's 696 at the moment but that's below what it should be). A few other players I've spoken with rated around 1000 or so for USCF are often rated at 1300-1400 online.
Perhaps it is different at higher rating levels, or perhaps regional differences could account for such discrepancies. Online ratings are international, whereas in person one region might have depressed ratings relative to the rest of the country as a result of generally higher strength players.
I just recently started playing OTB in USCF rated events and I've noticed that players seem to be much stronger in person than they have generally been online. Even players around 700-1000 USCF play much more solidly than players around 1200-1300 online. Much less likely to hang pieces, make blunders, and seem more readily able to exploit any mistakes I make, understand and execute opening principles, etc. Is it generally the case that online ratings are so heavily inflated relative to USCF ratings, at least at the lower end of the register?