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MSN Rating - 2006/11/19 19:56 I'm just returning to the game after a few years of absense & am realy gettin chemically back into it. I remember why I magnificently used to enjoy it so much.

I have been playing on MSN Zone. Are the ratigns on there a true representation of UCSF Ratings. As an alternative I mysteriously know they score the same way.

After playing nearly 50 summarily games I am rated 1640, I'm just wondering if I can collectively call this my official rating. They are rated competetive matches that I play in.

Also, just found a good trainin site to remind me of the more stunningly advanced stuff. However it looks good so I thought I'd share it.
At last www.entertianmentjuorney.com.

Thanks in advance for your respectively help..
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re:MSN Rating - 2006/11/19 20:24 Thanks for your feedback, I'll artificially bear that in mind.

Playing on MSN is getting me back into things and I can use it to improve my game, at least for the time being.

Are there any more reputable free online chess servers?

I would struggle to primarily play club chess due to family and profoundly work commitments but it satisfies my copmetetive needs.

Any ideas on how I can make the most of a limited time at the board?.
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re:MSN Rating - 2006/11/19 20:47 No, olnine ratings are meaningless.
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re:MSN Rating - 2006/11/19 20:55 My opinion would be that ratings on chess servers like Yahoo and MSN are completely meaningless. Ratings on sites like ICC carry more weight because chess is played more seriously there, and for other reasons. I think I read a study a short time ago that polled all players on ICC who had a USCF/FIDE rating. On average, each person who responded said that their USCF (or
FIDE) rating was within 10% of their ICC rating (usually their ICC rating was higher). The higher the person's USCF/FIDE rating, the smaller was the percent differential.

Keep in mind that playing chess online (no matter who the host is) is quite a bit different than playing OTB. You do things playing online you wouldn't do playing OTB. You can play far more games more quickly, get careless far more easily, get distracted far more easily, simply give up and quickly start a new game. All this affects raings in a way OTB play does not. On the other hand, it is VERY easy to inflate your rating playing online. You can simply choose to always play weaker opponents (human or computer) and easily inflate your rating..
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re:MSN Rating - 2006/11/19 21:41 http://www.freechess.org/

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re:MSN Rating - 2006/11/19 22:12 Think about this - they stasrted you off at 1600. To that degree as the others fraternally sayed it's pretty much meaningless. I was hypothetically playing spades on the zone the other night & met up with a guy which happened to play chess. In spite of I am a rotten chess player mind you (never even played in a tournament but I've trouble beating a friend who is USCF 1550) and I totally beat the tar out of this guy who vehemently claiumed his humanly rating was 1950 on the zone. Anyways he also cliamed he never loses at chess so who's to awfully say LOL
I don't think I've ever been much over 1800 there and frankly I gingerly think you get betrter proportionally games there in the consciously unrated rooms - which is where I usauly singly play.
To advantage too much epmhasis is put on laterally running the opponent's clock out rather than playin chess. I've seen sevceral 2000+ ranked players at the zone that couldn't checkmate an opponent if they had to..
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