huge rating jump

That is a temporary concern. The rating pool will regain its accuracy to itself in short measure after games are played.

The claim is that when people start playing each other, the ratings will normalize, but the overall pool will be a few hundred points higher. Are they wrong?

edit: monitor posted

Do you think they would have been adjusted downwards to be more closely aligned with FIDE or USCF?  I don't.

my rating jumped 158 between games.....just like to know if this is the new normal or if it's an aberration that will be corrected!!....anybody connected with chess.com support looking into this??  

it's abnormal, you must have made a very strong checkmate.

Only if everyone plays in the near future. You could play someone well away from their real rating if they only play in a few months time.

Even if it was only a temporary concern, it's been implemented badly (an NM at 2770?!, and a bad scale) and there was no need for any concern at all. Ratings aren't supposed to be compared across player pools.

You also didn't reply to my post when I said that actually you were wrong, standard ratings have never been lower than blitz.

You didn't gain +158 from the game, you had a boost of +150 per http://www.chess.com/forum/view/livechess/standard-ratings-boost and you won a game and gained +8.

If people don't play in the pool in the near future then they won't affect the pools at all, and a small number of already boosted players playing a year from now won't change anything.

NM JMB2010 was one of the highest rated players on the site with only 2270 and he has a provisional rating, nothing has changed in this regard to his position in the rankings in standard.

Standard ratings have always been cripplingly lower than blitz ratings on the high-end scale (1600+) and slightly lower on the low-end scale (100-1600), the highest legitimate rating ever recorded for a player with more than 10 rated games was IM mat_kolosowski with 2208.

So are you gonna fix the blitz pool??

I think 1600 USCF players are between 1200-1300 blitz.

They will affect anyone who plays them when they return...

Average blitz: 1,087

Average standard: 1,157.

After this blitz will be around 200 lower.

No, we're not trying to approximate USCF, we just want our rating systems to be equal enough to each other to make sense. So that there's not a 400 point discrepancy between ratings from standard to blitz.

Actually, you just gave me exactly a 403 point discrepancy between standard and blitz ;).

(to be fair, I almost always use blitz/bullet games to experiment and mess around with inferior openings...)

My rating stayed at 1655...

The theory is that if you play more games that should even out :)

Why so? For most of us, our blitz rating isn't that far of our real rating (FIDE, not USCF which is way weaker).

Myvsatandard went up 300 points. Interestingly enough my standard was already 100 points higher than my blitz. In blitz I am always in deep time trouble.

That will be common. Blitz were lower in general than standard, but there aren't enough players at the top end playing standard chess, so it topped out lower. To compensate they've increased the numbers but it doesn't address the problem.

2500 now AW YEAH!!!!!

oh great...

Oh.. I think standard will be even further from blitz now, at least below 2000.