I wouldnt put uscf in the same boat with fide since uscf has started their "dual rated" idiocy. This means that games like G/30 are rated as both action chess AND standard/classical which has got to be one of the stupidest things uscf has done in my lifetime.
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Jul 23, 2011
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Define "rating in real life." If you mean do the ratings here equate to USCF postal (correspondence) ratings hell no the turn-based ratings do not equal USCF ratings, the turn-based ratings here are at least 300 pts higher than what they would be in USCF, and probably more like 500 pts higher in most cases.
As an example, I'm rated 2066 here (turn-based), 1850 or so at ASPCC and 1550 at IECC (2 other "correspondence or postal" chess clubs). Of course as Estragon has pointed out there's lots of "apples and oranges" in trying to compare ratings here with any other chess site or organization, for instance there are about 300,000 active "turn-based" players here, ASPCC has about 100 members total and IECC has several hundred active members.
Nonetheless I think the rating system here is used because it's very inflated compared to USCF and FIDE so it makes bozos like me think they're much better than they really are.
Jul 23, 2011
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Re: TheMouse last comment: I should've stated I was referring specifically to turn-based ratings, I don't have any experience with bullet chess here and my blitz rating doesn't seem to be inflated (but maybe I'm just trying to rationalize being rated 1604 at blitz)
How close does chess.com's ratings come to actual real life ratings. If I'm rated 1500 on this site, does that translate to a 1500 in real life? What about if I'm rated 1200?
Basically is there a standard formula to translate chess.com's rating into what my real life rating would be? possibly something as simple as subtract 150 or something like that? or are the ratings here pretty accurate after a lot of games are played?
Thanks!