Part of this is that I haven't played many live games, and the time aspect is still stressful to me. There's a huge difference in my online vs live ratings, as you can see. Correspondence Rating of 2013, Over the Board rating of 2160). Correspondence Rating of 2284, Over the Board Rating of 1743) or deflated by those that don't because of their cheating opponents (i.e.

Cheating in Correspondence Chess - Correspondence Ratings are inflated by those that cheat (i.e.Such activity says ZERO about your chess skill. Here, your opponent will act like a retarded reject and simply move his rook around for no reason but to run you out of time. USCF or FIDE, you either have a Delay, Increment, or Insufficient Losing Chances. Utter BS play in blitz, like K+R and 21 seconds vs K+R and 14 seconds.Connectivity issues, especially with blitz.Over the board, I play my bread and butter. You get players like me that use to experiment with lines.If you truly want to know how good you are, play in over the board events. Right now I am 1350ish (and climbing) on online, and I recently dropped below 1300 on standard.Īlso, I can play with (and beat) 1500 level players on the turn based matches.I don't think I have beaten a 1400 level player on the live matches.Ĭ ratings are useless and mean nothing. Right now I have about 70 active games, and the length of time I can analyze my moves helps. Maybe it is because I have more time to analysis my positions.

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