How does your rating here compare to your USCF rating?

The last (and only) time I played in a USCF tournament I was probably about 8. 

So the only thing I have as far as a rating is Yahoo! Chess and this site. How does your rating here compare to your USCF rating?

My ratings on most internet sites are highly inflated compared to my USCF rating. It used to be that I was rated in the 1300's USCF while around 1700-1800 here and on FICS, where I play "real time" games. I think that's pretty typical for most people below around 1800 rating in either system.

However, I've been playing my best in USCF tourneys and not taking my games on the internet as seriously, so my USCF rating has increased to 1500 as I've improved, but my internet ratings, both here and on FICS are down to the 1600's, because I get more distracted and often make silly blunders when I play online.

--Fromper 

They don't compare. Bill Wall did a survey collecting data from dozens of players.

What about FIDE, same as USCF?

How can I find out what my FIDE/USCF rating would be?

Do the levels in Chessmaster accurately represent FIDE/USCF ratings?

skiingisfun69> What about FIDE, same as USCF?

According to a 2006 USCF survey:

"For FIDE rating [between 1800 and] 2200, the converted USCF rating is the same. For FIDE rating between 2200 and 2600, the converted USCF rating is FIDE + (FIDE-2200)/8. For FIDE ratings above 2600, the converted USCF rating is FIDE+50."

skiingisfun69> Do the levels in Chessmaster accurately represent FIDE/USCF ratings?

Since CM9000 times, they should represent USCF ratings +/- 50 points if and only if, you play a variety of opponents giving both sides equal time controls and enforce the rules: no takebacks, no looking at opening books, & you resign when out of time, etc.

can you tell me why i cant play tournament i have min 5 online games finsh

Everyone should go the FIDE website. There is a list there of all the affiliated chess federations from around the world. You should join the federation that represents your home country. Someone from Europe or elsewhere would have a hard time taking part in USCF events since they are all held in the US. 

 About the chess federation in the Netherlands... I bought a book from there (in english of course) and they had a totally strange notation system. The squares represented the pieces that in the beginning would stand ther, like knight 7(kn7). And not enough with this, they also switch between white and black so whites king starts on king 1(k1) and blacks king also start on k1 but from blacks side. ????

mvh Fredrik 

That has nothing to do with the fact that it's from the Netherlands. That's called descriptive notation, and it used to be the standard for all English language chess publications until around the 1980's, I believe. Then, algebraic notation became the standard, and that's what you're familiar with. But you'll often find older books (most of the "classics") in descriptive notation, unless it's a modern reprint that's been intentionally changed to algebraic.

For more information on descriptive notation, check out Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive_notation

--Fromper 

Makes me feel ancient...all the chess books that I originally learned from used descriptive notation. That's how it was in the 1950ies.

My USCF is mid class B, I haven't played any games

My USCF is in the 1700s. I dont have much time for every move on the internet, so I make lots of mistakes I don't make in tournaments.