Last time we played LordKrouictahn you were down; one my move and checkmate you lose. You knew that so you purposely didn’t make a move and you waited for the time to expire. You also said that you were going to make yourself a sandwich.
So I wonder how many players are like you so I don’t have to waste my time playing them.
Well I don't know what elo 1800 is. Do you mean chess.com is 1800 or do you have a national rating (or FIDE?).
I would tend to look at your blitz rating (1000+ games with current games is well established) vs your long game rating (10 games from a long time ago).
Counting web players (I'm going to completely guess here) I'd say... 100,000 players in the US? I'd be interested if anyone knew for sure. USCF avg adult player is what... 1400-1500? In chess.com terms that's about 1400-1500 blitz (from what people say blitz is about right). Bullet is inflated, turn-based is inflated. Haven't heard about standard, because pool should be smaller I'm guessing it's inflated.
I think 2100 USCF is already 98 or 99 percentile? May be wrong though. What I mean is it shoots up pretty fast, there are very few titled players, so you can definitely make it if you keep playing and practicing.
What happens if you do not reach top 10%? This is strange rule.
there is USCF distribution on http://archive.uschess.org/ratings/ratedist.php
if you are ~1800, your percentile is ~91%, so you are in top 10% of US. regular chess players
just as a matter of interest FIDE publish only ratings of players with elo above 1200. In that population, elo ~1800 is 28th percentile (its simple to download data from http://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml, copy to Excell and use function PERCENTILE.INCL on that).
How many chess players are there world-wide? In the U.S.? (not just chess.com) By chess player, I'm talking about a person in chess clubs and communities like this (not just "once in a while pull out the dusty chess set" recreational player)
I'm trying to figure out what percentile I would be based off my ELO rating ~1800. Obviously, I'm not that good as you can see from my profile, but I am competitive in many things I do-- I usually have a rule of thumb that I have to reach at least top 10% of whatever it is.
Now, I've come to a realization that there are some damn smart people out there through this website and that maybe chess ain't my thing! Nonetheless, I still think it'd be cool to gauge my schess skills relative to the community.