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What would you expect reporting "poor sportsmanship" to do? I agree that there should be a way to report this, but the reports should go straight to /dev/null

For the people who have noticed improvement in the past few months, I hate to burst your bubble, but this is because the mean classical rating has been slowly moving up.

Also, aren't all the chess hustlers in washington square technically making a living playing chess? I guess it depends on what you consider a living.

I know a lot of top chess players are making a living playing poker instead. Hey, it's still playing a game for a living, and you can't really beat that.

@#10 average rating gives x shift of the rating distributions. If you assume the player pool strength are the same (and there's no reason not to) then it should be pretty straightforward and accurate.

Average FIDE rating is around 1200, here it's 1650 so basically it's a 450 point shift.

You guys are way off. 1800 classical would be around 1350 uscf

Just google glicko2, wikipedia is probably the best resource.

I looked at a couple games and it seems to me the opposite, you prefer moves that attack to moves that improve your position. So maybe try to castle early and focus on not leaving pieces undefended. S…

Also the obvious answer is your friend was going easy on you. When a strong player plays against his friend who is a beginner, he's usually not out to crush that person.