Rating

Please comment here:

Do you think that Chess.com's rating is accurate? If so why or why not.

no

in online chess anyways

The rating is accurate just for correspondance players! it's not applcable for OTB players because they can't use software like the most of correspondance players!!

 yes  that makes sense

The answer is no     cos real chess isn't the same on computer, thats it !!!

 yea...

It is accurate for what it is, it is not accurate for what it is not. It's just that most people don't understand what it is.

My estimate is that chess.com ratings have an inflation vs normal ratings (FIDE etc) of about 400-500 points on the higher levels (probably less on lower levels). In addition the gap can grow if the player playing cc devotes very much time to every game. In essence correspondence chess is an entirely different game than OTB. Many weaknesses in understanding of the positions can be overcome when one gets alomst unlimited time to study the positions (unlimited compared to OTB at least). This doesn't make cc less attractive as a game, it just shows that it is a different discipline from OTB.

 yes

Do you think that the # of games you have played should affect your rating? (It does on Chess.com)

I agree with that since the more games you play the more accurate your rating gets. Like the more games you have played you'll increase or decrease in rating smaller than you would have if you played 1 game rather than 500.

A rating for one pool of players cannot be inflated compared to another pool of players. Inflation is said to have occurred if ratings within a pool of players rise without a commensurate rise in ability.

You are attempting to make some sort of conversion formula but there is none between correspondence and OTB.

 not really I was just wondering what chess.com thinks

I do things on chess.com that I cannot do OTB, plain and simple.

Take away analyze mode and my level is not as high.

This is just the kind of typical arrogance I've come to expect from many members on these forums now. Someone asks a question and then just dismisses the answer when it's given to them. One of the reasons why more strong players don't come to the forums IMO.

 Shirov has 6 points at this point at Corus. By the ratings posted in the news items here, his expected score to this point would have been 4.27. He is certainly performing better than expected, but I don't think it is as extreme as you are making it out to be.

No statistical predicition is going to give you exact results, especially not in a sample size as small as five.

 How is that arrogance? My sense of humor is different then yours.

Just laughing at a serious and respectable answer is arrogant. I don't understand what exactly you found funny about it.

 It's just my sense of humor