What is Consider a Good Chess Rating on this Site?

it's good to one rated 844

i haven't read the whole thread, but, i would submit that players run the spectrum. some are better at faster games and vice versa. especially when one considers most of us here are hacks. even though your 1900 rating is impressive (to me) q, very few of us are masters and have command of the game at virtually any time control.

QKBKR, there have been surveys done which shows that on average, blitz ratings here are a bit lower (iirc, less than 100 points difference on average) than OTB ratings. But the correspondence between online blitz and OTB standard chess ratings is the most reliable. Of course, those are just averages, and there are others like you who have the opposite experience. 

The least reliable measure of OTB strength is of course correspondence chess. 

Enjoy chess and don't care too much about ratings. I know it's addictive but the most important thing is to love the game. After all , most of us are not professionals and will never be!

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A good rating is always the one that I will have tomorrow, except when I've lost so many games in a row that yesterday's rating was good.

A good rating is a rating which is much better than the average rating. Since the average rating of a club player is about 1500-1600, a good rating would be a rating of at least 1700. This doesn't mean that a 1600-1700 player isn't bad - they are in fact identical to 1700 players -  It's just that the results against average club players isn't as convincing.

The number for a good rating is dependent on what pool you are talking about. For example the 5 min and 3 min pools are much tougher than the 10 15 or 30 min pools.

In the 5 min or 3 min blitz pools a good rating in my opinion is anything above 1900. A great rating is anything above 2100. 

one thing that always confuses me, is when people come up with a firm number for "a good rating"

is this number based on a percentile?

anyways, surely, 1900 for the 3-5minute blitz is very good.  perhaps better than 97-98% of the whole site.

that seems off. to pick a number above just about everybody.

I can think of other measures of defining good.

Have you considered the simple- a "Good" Chessplayer is 400 rating points above the average rating.  so what would that be- the average rating is about 1100?

then blitz 1500....  and someone at that ready would easily beat the "average" blitz player.

90th percentile for blitz on this site is about 1500. You can see where you sit if you check your personal stats

90% approximately = 400 above average blitz

very convenient coincidence. 

The average is distorted, because many people just create an account and dont play regularly. Thus the averages displayed are misleading. Averages for regular players  are not available as far as I know. 

For the purpose of this discussion ratings should be based on the 5 min or 3 min pools, as those are comparable to FIDE ratings. 

I think anybody who plays regularly needs to be above 1900 elo to be considered a good chess player. This 1900 rating is in the middle of the rating range for class A players: 1800-1999.

Good for me is a class A player. Good is not very good (Expert) or excellent (Master classes). If good is neither an expert nor a master, I think class A would make sense. 

Why would you think that is coincidence? It comes out of the math in the Glicko rating system.

I understand that Glicko is an improvement on Elo, but essentially similar. Elo gives a player rated 200 above an opponent 75% win odds. Take the inverse and double it to get 15/16 chance of winning at +400.

Since the nominal average player starts at 1200, 1600 should be the 94th percentile.

I'm excited that I just broke 400. Hahahahaha.

 interesting.

on one hand though, iowa, you have been trying since late december.

thats not really a long time.

I find it curious that you started with longer rapid games then went to fast chess like blitz/lightening.   I don't think that helps. just saying

This, although since I'm over 2150 on this site, I can modify that slightly to say that my chess is basically  rubbish.

1842 blitz is low for me, I want to be 1900+ 

I think Im gonna sacrifice my chess improvement and play blitz on weekends!

Im ambitious m8! g'day mate! THERES A KANGAROO IN MY HOUSE.

I struggle to be over 1900, and to achieve over 2000 again as I did for a single game last February would be fabulous!



It's still rubbish, though.