On Nov 3, 5:45 am, "Chess One" wrote:

My writing about my rating was sloppy.... Mine was because I was
writing to non-chess players, who don't even know which way the ELO scale
goes, up or down.

That is not the case. You will be surprised at the number of
chessplayers on HLAS. Here's what one of them wrote:

"This I cannot understand at all. USCF ratings are a matter of
public record, and either he had the rating (in which case it is
recorded) or he did not. And I certainly cannot understand his claim
that he was "almost" an International Master. After all, it's a
lifetime title awarded by the FIDE, and either one has been awarded it
or one hasn't; being "almost" an International Master is, as I said
before, like being "almost pregnant." "