What's my real rating?

I quit chess at 13 but took it up again this year at 28. Because I am mainly playing online I'd like to hear opinions on what my 'real life' or OTB rating would be.

I play turn-based online chess here and my rating is usually 1750-1800.

I play live 5-minute chess here and it's 1550-1600.

I play an OTB 15-minute allegro tournament most Saturdays and my unofficial rating there is around 1400-1450.

So if I was back playing proper rated tournaments, what strength or rating could I expect to be? I'm having difficulty gauging it because I don't know how inflated ratings on this site are compared to real life, or if they're inflated at all.

so why are u posting it, it was just a waste of posting things

Odd question, Campione. It sounds like you have enough statistics to gauge for yourself. But truly isn't your rating as good as the last game you've played? I have no idea what the rating system has to do with online chess other than just being a fun stat to play with for yourself. Those bloody amazing masters and grandmasters, have to have it for prize tournaments, and title chases. But here? Pretty much, amusement.

Well I'm posting it because there's a pretty big discrepancy between 1400 and 1800 and if I'm going to enter any real tournaments I'd like to know my chances in different rating groups.

Maybe a simpler way of putting it: How inflated are chess.com ratings in comparison to real-life OTB ratings? Do people generally find their ratings here much higher than those they have from their national chess federations?

You can't compare chess.com ratings to so-called "real-life" ratings, so they are not inflated in comparison. If you want to find out what your OTB rating is, go and play some rated OTB games.

Prob you would play in the class C section USCF (1400-1600)

Aye, ratings here are massively inflated. I've played solid 1900 players (site rating) that are 1300 USCF. Take about 500 off of your average on this, and you'll have something close. Although, the only real way to know is to play OTB, because the conditions here are completely different to classical OTB games.

its going to vary a large amount, but I would say roughly 150-200 points less than your corr. rating on here

Best would be to go to a local club, don't tell them you've ever been rated, but ask their ratings as you play and you'll figure it out.

The ratings here do seem a bit inflated, -- but not by 500 points of course.  That would mean all the under 1000 people can't remember how the knight moves half the time.

Seems like your blitz is stronger than your long game, which says to me your tactics are less rusty than your planning or feel for the position.  If you want to do more prep for a future tourney I'd suggest focusing on more 15 min games or even longer -- just my opinion.

I spend about as much time on each move OTB as i do here in corr (on purpose) and find my chess.com rating is usually about 200 points higher than my OTB rating.  That might help a bit.  If you're playing blitz at 1600 on here you can probably look at 1700ish USCF.  That's my guess.

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they don't translate and CC style chess doesnt prepare you well for OTB unless you are actively training. The upside is that CC requires a greater precision of play, so that might help I guess.

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Generally, your standard (long game) rating on the Internet will be inflated by around 200 points. So, my guess is that you are probably playing somewhere around the 1400-1500 level USCF. Give or take.

OTB ratings are the only ones worth bothering with.

Mano y Mano

That,s the way

If you get to over ELO 2600 turn Pro.

Chess.coms difference is about 200 elo so you would be 1200-2000 but probably 1570 about. 

I am speaking from a lot of experience. Your USCF rating should match your Standard live chess rating. Not your blitz or bullet rating (these don't count). Possibly your Over the board rating can also give you some idea of your playing strength, however most USCF tournaments use time controls similiar to the Standard live chess time control. This is coming from someone who has played in both USCF tournaments and chess.com games. I have heard the argument that the chess.com rating is 200 elo points lower, but this is nonesense. I think it typically matches quite well.

Currenty Ihave played 18 OTB USCF tournament games and I am still in a provisional status until I reach 20 games. I have a 1602 USCF rating, and I am normally in the 1600's for bullet, blitz, and Long on live chess. I believe that live chess is probably the most accurate to your actual rating over the board, however, keep in mind that conditions over the board are extremely different than online - for example - OTB I take more seriously due to the fact that often money is at stake and I am usually in a tournament not just sitting back with my feet on my desk, also my wife isn't yelling for me to change my baby's diaper or any of that kind of stuff. Then again when you are playing OTB you are face to face with someone possible with many onlookers which adds pressure. All in all I think that the Long time control in live chess is going to give you the most accurate representation of your true rating keeping in mind all of the external conditions that there might be.

if your online rating matches your USCF or Fide then consider it coincidence not the rule.

Good guess your right.

In my case, the rating is inflated by about 600 points. The reasons for the inflation are manifold:

- opponents timing out (amounted to 50% of the wins in Round 1 of one tournament). Note that oppoents timing out/withdrawing does not only result in inflating your own rating directly but it inflates the ratings of other opponents as well). This kind of thing rarely ever happens in OTB play.

- opponents playing an insane amount of games at the same time while I limit myself to a few resulting in a competition of one guy playing blitz and the other taking his time

So I would guess that your real rating is somewhere between 1300 & 1400 but as others said the only way to find out for sure is to play in OTB tournaments.