chess.com ratings are deflated against USCF

So. Why is there only one Slow Chess Player out of 613 rated over 2000?

As a compliment to players on chess.com, I must say  my experience of USCF 1200-1300 players was that they played decent skittles against friends and family, they would not fall for a Scholar's Mate, and they knew the Ruy Lopez, the Giouco Piano and (maybe) the QGD to five or six moves.

Nonetheless, they were basically fish.

That's not what I see here.

I find sophisticated players who have looked at many chess books, drilled on tactics, and are combat veterans workings earnestly to bring up their ratings.

Salut.

I won't underestimate any of you ever again.

       The peace treaty was signed in 1973, we withdrew from active involvement in 1975. I would not have gotten any G.I.Bill benefits if I didn't serve 180 days in time of war. And I can assure you, I used every penny I could to go to college. Nixon became president in 1970-74. He ran for re-election in 73. Massachusetts voted for MaGovern. Nixon closed Chicopee Air Force base to punish us. There was a major Tet offensive in 68. But in 1968, I was 12 yrs old. And your complaint was that I wasn't able to be old enought for 1974. Your forgetting Kent State in 1972, which brought pressure on to Nixon to stop the war, and Kissinger wanted a piece of Vietnam, a piece of Cambodia, a piece of Laos. It took 2 yrs to get out of Nam. The official cut-off date for G,I, Bill benefits from the Veterans Administration is May 28, 1975. Americans didn't withdraw completely until 75. There's a famous network news reel of helicopters feerying people out of the embassy.  Now, what's this stuff about a non military kid, who ask his daddy for chess money, trying to tell me something about the military??

dun-dun sss

       To everyone on this thread; I apologize for the long winded military history lesson, but he,(TacticallSymphony), didn't think I was 18 yrs old in 1974. In 1973, I was 17, and there was a draft for the military. I didn't want to be drafted into the Army, or the Marines, so I stupidly listened to an Air Force recruiter, who told me I could play drums in the band. Unbeknowsed to me, when you get a Top Secret Security Clearance for Nuclear weapons, YOUR NOT GOING ANYWHERE! Cease fires were called for before 1973, but they didn't HOLD. The Tet offensive in 1968 was to re-open the Ho-Chi-Min trail. Carpet bombing closed it up till then. So; do the math; born in 1956, I was 14 in 1970, graduated in 1974 at 18 yrs old. I'm NOT some big bad Navy Seal, but I did train with Army Rangers at Camp Medina in Texas. I survived the draft, and Nixon had his hands full with Watergate, the 1st yr, of his 2nd term. He resigned in late 1975. Gerald Ford was sworn in,Jan 1976. You don't just sign the peace treaty, and everybody comes home the next day. I can't play chess, but I know my military history. BTW, if you want any nuclear launch codes, I'll sell them real cheap!

Tacticalsymphony is a moron. RJC is cool.

The End.

"Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming"

I am still trying to figure out how I got lumped with the lower rated moronic blitz playing crowd ?

I play on line correspondence games almost exclusively...

He was probably banned before.

I have noticed in other threads, a desire for cheaters to want chess.com ratings to be viewed as higher than USCF or any other rating system's ratings, with pretty much no exceptions.

It is easier to claim to be a 1700-1800 USCF player or a 1600-1700 Fide player that, no one is going to bother caring about or checking on, while they cheat to get a 2000+ rating here. It looks much less suspicious if the profile claims it. One would think after all of the schemes these guys dream up and the effort they put into cheating, it would easier to just learn how to play chess the right way.... what is even dumber is that they think the rest of us are too stupid to put 2 and 2 together...

You said a mouthful. I get sick of trolls here, who probably cheat, who also have no OTB credentials, or who could be lying about them, always criticizing other members here, for various reasons. I like your ideas but, I think it should go one step further. If you claim a rating from a chess sanctioning body, they should be required to verify the identification. I also think all chess.com members should have show a government ID from their country where applicable and a nominal fee charged to everyone to cover the costs. In effect, it would give a greater incentive to not cheat, make it harder to cheat without getting caught and provide chess.com with a way to not ban IP addresses, while still being to better stop the revolving door that banned players return through.

TheArtofWar, I think he is.

         Macer and his friends got a hold of a list of banned members, closed accounts, former cheaters, and with the influx of new legitimate members for the 1st of the year, I don't want to spend my time, trying to figure out who's who. 

The Tet Offensive commenced Jan 30, 1968 (referring back to your post #719).  Then you refer above to a "major Tet offensive in 1968", presumably trying to bolster your erroneous claim of another Tet offensive in 1972 (again, your post #719).  That's like saying there were two Battles of the Bulge, the first one that started Dec 16, 1944, and the second one when Gunter and Hans dusted it up behind the pub in Bastogne.  You're confusing the Tet Offensive in 1968 with the Easter Offensive in 1972.

Also, the Kent State shootings were in 1970.  Nixon resigned in August 1974.  Cote seems about two years off on most things.  Probably the weedage he was smoking back in the early 70s.

I think there's a pretty reasonable hypothesis for this.  The DHLC, of which I'm a member, has a bias towards attracting class players because it's a learning group where people are trying to BECOME experts.

In statistics terms, the DHLC is not representative of the general USCF player pool.  In fact, I'd say that chess.com is probably not representative of the general USCF or FIDE rating pool at the master and above level.

Instead of showing numbers of players and comparing it to the USCF percentiles, it would be much better to get recent USCF ratings from all of the members in the DHLC and compare them to their chess.com live chess rating.  

So 37 pages later, have we reached a concensus on whether or not chess.com rates are deflated compared to USCF ratings?

For the record, I'm 1860 chess.com and only 1650 USCF. So I believe the word is inflated, not deflated.

I believe the word is moron.  A sample size of one does not prove anything.  Get lost.

P.S.:  You look just like Shaggy from Scooby Doo.

        Hey nameeno;  You remind of a few trools who just want to argue on a few threads; have not played any games on this site, AND, (wait for it), Oh yeah, their membership just started TODAY. You wouldn't know who those people are now, would you CHRIS?

? What r u talking about? How come I've never seen that list that I supposedly have?

      OH!  did I get your attention??   What happened to your thread, "Wayback Machine"?    Never mind; THIS thread is for chess RATINGS.

That's not my thread. I barely even commented on it.

And of course u got my attention - u mentioned my name at the very beginning of your comment! How am I supposed to not notice?