Well the topic sais it all. Im new to Chess.com and was interested in knowing the Fide Rating Comparisons.

Ex. A user with a correspondence rating of 2000 has a fide rating of?

If some one can direct me to a post were this topic has already bin discussed, I would appreciate it. Tnks!.

CC chess is stupidly inflated in most cases.

A 2000 CC player could be anywhere from 1400-1900 fide, depending on how they play correspondence.

I don't play in Fide tournaments however, this is just an observation.

My CFC ( Canadian ) rating is 300 lower than online one which is 2000+, FIDE should be in the same order.

LightPawn,

True Correspondence Chess is nothing like tournament chess, mainly because you don't know anything about how a person achieved his or her online rating.

For example, my rating is 1800, but I play touch-move, take no more than 5 minutes/move (90% of the time I only take 1 minute), and use no tools (databases, books, and analysis board, and anything else I may not be thinking of), and I finish all my games in a timely fashion.

One can easily achieve a rating of 2000 online if he or she plays without touch-move, plays like 7-14 days/move so they have forever to think about a position, and takes full advantage of books and databases. It's hard to blunder if you're using the analysis board to double check your moves, as you'll rarely, if ever, hang any pieces. I play about 1700-1800 USCF OTB, and regularly, people of this caliber still hang pieces every now and then. So if I could avoid this altogether, my rating would shoot up like 100 points easily.

I mean, it's one thing to be reading a book, and play a perfect Rook and pawns endgame, but it's a completely different thing altogether to pull that off OTB, especially in a tournament environment. FIDE ratings are, I'm guessing, very competitive, and to advance up the ladder, you have to be willing to play in tournaments regularly, and devote 1-3 FULL days to play in these kinds of tournaments, so they are very taxing.

A CC chess rating will give you some clue as to how a player may play OTB, but the range is very great.

I had no idea books or databases or moving the pieces all together were allowed in Correspondence chess.

I personally will never use any of toughs options EVER when playing someone, only after a game will i fully analyze everything.

  Kacparov: LOL your really weird, Why spend 10 sec!!! Maybe if your playing over 200 games at the same time and see it as a training for simultaneous exhibitions, this strategy would make some sense. 

My rating at chess.com swings between 1800 and 1950 as of recent. However my OTB play is quite weak. My FIDE rating would probably be around 1300-1500. I often run into tactical blunders and drop pieces in OTB play. I have a lot of difficulty seeing the massive board in 3D.

My online rating is 1750 and my live long chess is 1350 currently.  I spend one to two minutes with CC chess per move.  You can expect live long chess to be apprx. 200-300 pts below correspondence chess; however some 1900-2000 players online have the same FIDE, USCF rating.

I would love to play a USCF rated game and will be doing it some time eventually in the future, although I am a rather new player to chess and don't expect strong player status/. 

If I was rated I'd expect probably OTB in the 1400's.

Socket2me: I’ve bin playing chess for a will now and the main problem i see in lower rated players is that they don’t study or solve any tactics puzzles.

The best site that im using now is ChessTempo.com, there you can solve tactics puzzles with no time constraints and get rated for it. Even f you just playing chess for fun, being competitive on tactics puzzles and watching your rating climb is very exiting.

No Correlation between Correspondence Ratings and Fide Ratings on Chess.com, ratings on chess.com are really meaningless.

If your long live is 1350 then I wouldn't expect much higher than that.