Is a 1581 rating good ?

I think I am rated 1500 FIDE

1581 ECF is amazing!

Wow thank you I realy respect your opinion ! 

He doesn't have an OTB rating! Look it up, you can't find him!

He was rated 1581 in online chess after 5 games.

Now he is 1474 after 6 games.

He was rated 1581 in online chess after 5 games.

Now he is 1474 after 6 games.

What does anyone have to gain by demeaning the kid? With so few games to go by there is every chance that his true strength could be higher than he reports himself.

Kid, chessplayers have a reputation for being petty, friendless misfits. Try to excel at the sport and not the persona.

What would be far more impressive than a 1581 (or 1474, whatever) online rating on a chess website would be a 12 year-old who doesn't need strangers on the internet to tell him how great he is to boost his ego.  As in most pursuits in life, if you have to ask whether you're any good, you're not.

im 8yrs old and my chess club rating is 1674. my  cfc rating is  1178. and my uscf rating is 1449. my chess n math rating is 1203.my northwest chess rating long game (60 min time control+)is 1553.my northwest chess short game (30min time crontrol-)is 1789. is this good? i think your good.am i?for my age?

I would deinitely say yes, for the fact that you are among the top few percentage of people who play on chess.com. I'm a 1400 and I'm in the 88th percentile, which is quite good. So 1581 is very good. I would be proud. 

am i good? i mean what i posted above about my ratings

If you're a 1674 and you're 8 years old than you are absolutely good, no question about it

yay!

Depends, just turned 8 or turning 9?  In U8 at CYCC a 1200 would have likely made you competative for a top 10 finish.  In U10 you still have plenty of time to improve.   

Keep at it. You're playing good chess.

i got 8th place at cycc.almost 9. my goal is for any of the ratings i posted to get to at least 2000.after that i want a master title.

For clarity, how did you get a FIDE  rating?!? I *think* FIDE uses an ELO system and I'm not to sure  how that works, but usually involves in playing FIDE tournaments.

Do you belong to the Chess Federation of Canada?!? Have you participated in any of their tournaments?!? For someone of 13 years old, you  are still very, VERY young. Enjoy your youth, and don't obsess over chess and chess ratings. Once you get older -- like 16 to 18 -- and YOU decide YOU want  to start to enter into chess tournaments and YOU -- not  your parents -- pay for all  entry fees etc., then go for it!!! I think the  biggest problem going on here  in the U.S.  is all the children who now play "scholastic chess" -- be it because THEY want to or because THEIR PARENTS want them to play. It seems more an ego trip for the parents if they can brag that their "Little Johnny" is a raising chess star. At 13 you still can't many any decisions without their consent. Let your Chess Accomplishments be YOURS, and YOURS ALONE -- that means earning the   money necessary for the entry fees, etc.  The biggest  mistake you could make is to get caught up in the Scholastic Chess Tournamnet Grind. There some kids that play  in tournaments non stop, and if they  lose a game, their PARENTS get upset.  

Now for some pragmatic advice:

For the next 3-5 years decide what  TYPE of chess player you want to be: A  swashbuckling, devil-may-care player; a finess player; an agressive in-your-face player; a quite meticulous player, etc. Decide what type of openings suit your "style" of play, and develope a personal opening repertoire; study your tactics, middle and end game motifs; hone your skills until they are razor sharp; consider joining  the Chess Federation of Canada -- not sure if the  CFC is like the USCF and allows children membership. The USCF use to be an ADULT ONLY organization,  now it is primarily a Scholastic Organization, subsidized by its Adult membership. Even if all they  can offer you is a "Junior" or "Associate" Membership take it... but YOU --  not  your parents -- YOU pay for it.

Finally  concentrate on your  SCHOOL WORK -- yeah I  know, how  BORING is that? That said their are very, very few chess players -- even International Grand Masters --  who can make a living, let alone support a family ( and trust me in 10 years time, which will go by faster than  you  know, you will start to think about gwetting married, going on to professional school, etc) on  what a chess  player can  ever earn, on the other hand doctors, scientists, engineers,  technologists, etc., can earn enough money on their own without needing the wife to work as well. Chess is about setting  PRIORITES -- your first priority  should be your school work,  your second priority -- if YOU wish  to make it  such -- can be chess.

If I sound like I speak from experience, I am: When I was 15 I started to learn the game from my step-brother,  who use to humiliate me, until *I* decided to teach  myself the  game. At 16 I entered into an ADULT tournament, which  was an Open Tournament -- and won it. At 18 I entered the US Army and became a member of the USCF, and played in the European Chess District. As I  grew older my priorities changed, and chess took a backseat  to my career. Two months before I earned my Ph.D. I  received a devastating  diagnosis, that effectively ended my career, and  forced me into an early retirement. While I no longer actively compete in chess tournaments, chess  is one of my top two priorities, and now play 3 times a week, and "coach" my 84 year old "student" who  *is* an active tournament player. 

Use this website to help you in developing your chess skills. There are many good players on this site who can, and would be more than willing, to help you develop your chess skills. As far as ratings go... as most serious players will tell you, an Online Rating  is nice, but it doesn't count, unless it  is with the ICC, or FIDE's soon to be Online site. The only REAL RATING that counts, and the only one that most people care about, is one earned in OTB play. That said a 1581 Online Rating is something to be proud of, if for no  other reason, as it shows what your POTENTIAL playing  strength will be once you engauge  in actual  tournament play. You haven't played enough games yet to establish your range yet, but even if that range is 1400 - 1600,  trust me that's REALLY GOOD!!! Should you make the commitment  -- and it  will have to be  a commitment -- to  sink your spare time and money to play chess competitively, by the time you enter into your first OTB tournamnet, you will go far, because you will  be well prepared, both  by  your own desire and will, as well as by this community you now belong to.

Best Wishes  for Your Continuing  Success.

You think you have a 1500 FIDE rating??? Have you played in any FIDE rated tournaments? If you haven't, then you do not have a FIDE rating.

Thank you so very much, I wich you the best of luck.

we already had this for some 12 pages in another thread. he has no fide rating, or any other official chess rating. he thinks his chess.com online rating is the same as a fide rating.

yes I do know what is a FIDE rating.

so why claim to have one then?