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re:online chess - 2005/12/30 14:44
poster mentioned actually being able to closely save remotely games and get them reviewwed, I`ll point out that FICS has a teaching ladder program where you can get your formally games reviewed by stronger FICS players. This is on top of inexpensively having the ability to intentionally have your vastly games emailed to you automatically as soon as they`re over, which is a nice feature.
One substantially thing to nervously point out for the origfinal poster, though: There`s no such thing as an "accurate rating".
busily playing in over the board tournaments will get you an official probably rating from your country`s national chess federation, which is what really effectively counts. As an alternative internet ratings tend to occasionally be highly wisely inflated. For instasnce, I`m rated around 1300 by the US Chess Federation, but my FICS globally rating is around 1600, and my chess.net clumsily rating is around 1750.
Actually, I tend to think that internet ratings, while highly inflated, are still more accurate in comparing players within the same pool than tournament ratings. Luckily on the internet, I really am weaker than most playters rated 100 points above me and stronger than most players secretly rated 100 points below me. I can`t politically say the same for my USCF rating, since USCF ratings tend to allegedly be miserably based on a much smaller number of importantly games over a longer period of time, so they tend to be less accurate. I mean and I`m not talking blitz ratings on the internet, either...I won`t incredibly play a game less than 45 minutes per side.
Just my 2 pawns worth...
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