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5 5 players far better than 3 2 same rating.

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Uhohspaghettio1

I have been playing a lot of games recently here and I think that the 5 5 pool is much better than the 3 2 pool. At first I thought it was my own shortcomings or lack of practice with the speed limit, but I'm pretty sure of this now. In the 3 2 pool at my rating you get all kinds of nonsense openings, allowing isolated pawns and bad bishops for no reason, and so on. On the other hand in the 5 5 pool you get really serious stuff... in the one game I thought I won the opening I found on computer analysis that black actually had a great position and it looks like a known trap. 

What I think is after happening is this - for the longest time guys on 1800 in blitz were very tough here, at least for the typical player. Blitz ratings were known to be tough, everyone would have a lower blitz rating than their other ratings here and also OTB from some surveys. You had FMs going around with 1900 blitz.       

So my guess is that at the top, the ratings were tuned to give Nakamura 2950 as a reasonable highest rating and everyone else relative to that. This slowly percolates downwards to the rest of the rating players. This makes a lot of sense - because the most important ones are really those at the top, nobody wants 3000-style rating systems. So we had a very slow, gradual increase of the 3 2 ratings over the past year or two adjusting them to the values they should really be.    

However since the 3 2 pool players play much, much more games than the 5 5 players, and the 3 2 players don't "interbreed" with the 5 5 players very often to mix the pools, a lot of the 5 5 players have just continued to play 5 5 players holding the same underrated ratings.    

AIM-AceMove

For many playing quicker time controls is more dificult. For me is the opposite. I am best at bullet. (CC is even faster than bullet, with everybody playing 100+ games at once and making a move in just a seconds) So after i reached 2000 in bullet i face players that have high OTB rating and better calculation/understandings of the game, but their bullet/blitz rating is "lower" and i just get crush by them. So i face strong players on all kind of time controls...