is chess.com rating equal to fide rating

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Pawnlings
pmazz65 wrote:

The ratings here are arbitrary IMHO.  Many times I am better able to beat an opponent with a higher score, only to lose badly to an opponent with a much lower score.

I think at lower levels. Below 1200, the winner is whoever doesn't blunder into mate 

Martin_Stahl
MickinMD wrote:

Jeremy Silman says chess.com ratings are 200-300 points higher than the equivalent OTB rating.

 

Then I must be doing something wrong ... or I need to play more meh.png

 

Or that isn't necessarily accurate tongue.png

Brontide88

They are "equal" in the sense that they are on the same scale. But FIDE - or national ratings like USCF or BCE - are different in several ways.

 

Most importantly, those ratings are based on OTB competition under strict conditions & with an arbiter or tournament director present to ensure all formal rules are observed. There is no comparison at all, then, to classical chess ratings.

 

Official ratings for blitz & rapid are also played under controlled conditions, supervised. Online ratings are for fun, nothing more.

 

The only way to test your play against "real" ratings is to play in the events rated by those governing bodies. There is no formula or rule of thumb to compare online ratings to them, no matter what anyone says.

DjonniDerevnja

Tomorrow my mission is to prove that 1388 Fide with black is stronger than 1900 fide playing white.  The rating isn't the exact current strength. It is a history-statistic result.  The 1900 has previously played a lot more good chess than the 1388. Of course the 1900  statistics is so far above the 1388 that he has to be favorite, but being favorite can lead to high expectation and lead to overpressing .

DjonniDerevnja
DeirdreSkye wrote:
DjonniDerevnja wrote:

Tomorrow my mission is to prove that 1388 Fide with black is stronger than 1900 fide playing white.  The rating isn't the exact current strength. It is a history-statistic result.  The 1900 has previously played a lot more good chess than the 1388. Of course the 1900  statistics is so far above the 1388 that he has to be favorite, but being favorite can lead to high expectation and lead to overpressing .

  Forget the rating and crush him!

I am very aware of his rating. I prepare trying to learn some openingtheory. But 512 difference isnt much on the 1300-1900 level. I guess it can be compared to 50 points difference between Super-Gms

wayne_thomas

Here is NM Matt Jensen's comparison of the two rating scales:

https://www.chess.com/blog/smarterchess/chess-rating-comparison-2016

DivineDestruction

Nah.If you're curious about how much your FIDE Rating could be,then the only way to find out is by getting one.No correlation between Online ratings and your FIDE ratings.Also I had a look at some of your games and I highly doubt that you're 1600 FIDE Strength.Atleast not by Indian standards.So I'd suggest playing FIDE Rated tournaments,getting a rating and not being disappointed if it's lower than FIDE 1600.

Pawnlings

 In that rating conparison, why does it have bullet players rated higher otb than classical? 

superdrewe53

This is a very interesting subject for me as I am planning to retire from work next year, and I hope to play in some senior event's, now I was expecting to get creamed for the first half a dozen matches or so, now I don't know for certain how I am going to get on as I haven't played OTB for about 40+ years, but I am really looking forward to playing some serious chess, my rating here is 1260 at the moment, but a couple of years back I played at 1458, so I am planning to get a lot of study time both on books and analysis

DjonniDerevnja
superdrewe53 wrote:

This is a very interesting subject for me as I am planning to retire from work next year, and I hope to play in some senior event's, now I was expecting to get creamed for the first half a dozen matches or so, now I don't know for certain how I am going to get on as I haven't played OTB for about 40+ years, but I am really looking forward to playing some serious chess, my rating here is 1260 at the moment, but a couple of years back I played at 1458, so I am planning to get a lot of study time both on books and analysis

I played OTB a year as a teenager and made comeback in 2014, 37 years after. Started in Nordstrand Clubchambionship, group 3. Met a lot good kids and adults and made 4 points in 11 games.

I have not been able to promote from group 3, but the last couple of years I got second place (In 2016 I am listed on top, but tiebreakrules moved me down one spot).

It was very difficult to find the right pace, a lot of my games are lost because i did my worst move faster than 30 seconds.  

Now I am listed with 143 rated games, and beginning to stabilize. My goal in the current "Høstturneringen" is to spend more than two minutes on my worst moves. If I can manage doing that, the result can become good. Now I am in a split lead after 2 rounds, but i haven't met the high rated players yet. http://turneringsservice.sjakklubb.no/standings.aspx?TID=NSKHostturnering2017-NordstrandSjakklubb

I think you will like to play against the strong kids. Its fun to meet them in games and analyze, and watch their progress. In my first Klubbmesteskap I met both Linnea Garberg Tryggestad and Isak Sjøberg, who are playing the last round of The European Youth Championship today. Actually I have played against nine of the players on the Norwegian team.  Playing those kids feels like being a part of chess history in the making. happy.png  http://chess-results.com/tnr296075.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=NOR&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984

 

Strong kids are usually better than their rating, which means that its difficult to increase rating playing against them. Partially because of that I guess I am slightly underrated. Its ok to be a bit underrated, because it gives a psychological imbalance meeting "better" players. 

tomiki

Over The Board, like face to face.

Deadman47

Thanks everyone

Deadman47

Plz guide me, how I increase my playing level

Like beginner - intermediate - advance

universityofpawns
MickinMD wrote:

Jeremy Silman says chess.com ratings are 200-300 points higher than the equivalent OTB rating.

Not sure if that is true, some of the masters have an OTB agenda because it generates cash for them....my rating is virtually the same either way....but I do think I try harder in OTB because there is something about playing an actual person that I take more seriously while still having a good time with it.

WilliamJohnB

The only way to find out the true answer to the question "Is chess.com rating equal to FIDE rating?" is to gather data from a large enough number of people (i.e. at least 30) with both a chess.com rating (classical, blitz, and/or daily) and a FIDE rating (classical, rapid, and/or blitz) and then do some sort of regression analysis to determine if there is any relationship between the two ratings.

Just_Alberto

My personal rating is about 1850/1900 OTB, while on chess.com I'm about 1650. Chess.com has really lower points than real life, especially for middle-ELO players. If you are an IM or more, then it's the countrary. There are players with 800 points on chess.com playing blitz games, that are likely 1700s ELO fide players.

1d3_1-0
Alberto_Sassari wrote:

My personal rating is about 1850/1900 OTB, while on chess.com I'm about 1650. Chess.com has really lower points than real life, especially for middle-ELO players. If you are an IM or more, then it's the countrary. There are players with 800 points on chess.com playing blitz games, that are likely 1700s ELO fide players.

its the opposite for me , i am 1058 FIDE and 1600+ chess.com , i havent played OTB in 2 years but my cc rating has always been higher than OTB

p8q
1d3_1-0 wrote:
Alberto_Sassari wrote:

My personal rating is about 1850/1900 OTB, while on chess.com I'm about 1650. Chess.com has really lower points than real life, especially for middle-ELO players. If you are an IM or more, then it's the countrary. There are players with 800 points on chess.com playing blitz games, that are likely 1700s ELO fide players.

its the opposite for me , i am 1058 FIDE and 1600+ chess.com , i havent played OTB in 2 years but my cc rating has always been higher than OTB

Are you really 1058 FIDE?? It's almost impossible to find someone so low at FIDE. Look:

ratings.png

Source:

https://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/files/news/2014/topical/paterek/ratings.png

https://en.chessbase.com/post/visual-presentation-of-world-chess-ratings

It's almost impossible to find someone less than 1100 rating FIDE, and that would be the worst players in the world, and your 1625 rating at bullet is not the definition of being the worst player in the world.

BestSell
p8q wrote:

It's almost impossible to find someone less than 1100 rating FIDE, and that would be the worst players in the world, and your 1625 rating at bullet is not the definition of being the worst player in the world.

1000 FIDE is definitely not the level of "worst players in the world".

This is a game between two 1000-rated FIDE players, played only a few months ago:

There are mistakes made, sure. But to call this level of play "the worst in the world" is a severe exaggeration. 

1d3_1-0
p8q wrote:
1d3_1-0 wrote:
Alberto_Sassari wrote:

My personal rating is about 1850/1900 OTB, while on chess.com I'm about 1650. Chess.com has really lower points than real life, especially for middle-ELO players. If you are an IM or more, then it's the countrary. There are players with 800 points on chess.com playing blitz games, that are likely 1700s ELO fide players.

its the opposite for me , i am 1058 FIDE and 1600+ chess.com , i havent played OTB in 2 years but my cc rating has always been higher than OTB

Are you really 1058 FIDE?? It's almost impossible to find someone so low at FIDE. Look:

 

Source:

https://en.chessbase.com/portals/4/files/news/2014/topical/paterek/ratings.png

https://en.chessbase.com/post/visual-presentation-of-world-chess-ratings

It's almost impossible to find someone less than 1100 rating FIDE, and that would be the worst players in the world, and your 1625 rating at bullet is not the definition of being the worst player in the world.

As I have already told , I haven't played OTB in the last 2-3 years and both those articles are outdated , both are from 2014

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