How high should rating be before join some chess club?

Chess is quite new hobby for me but I rapidly got addicted to it, I have now played everyday since 29.september.2015 when I registered this chess.com. I dream that I could some day go to some chess club or even participate to some tournament  but I'm afraid 10-15 year teens gonna laugh 52 years old man out very soon.

Maybe stupid question: it depends about club. But are here for example any players rating about 1000 who still play in some club and participate to tournaments?  

Hi,

I know some guys from my club at your age or older with your rating or less. At our club everyone is welcome. We have a team in the lowest section. Our combined club and town championship is open for everyone. We have three or four members in the range 900 - 1100 in this tournament every year.

Noone laughs about them, because they have a low rating. Only one of them is a little bit special. He knows everyhing better then all higher rated players. E. g. when i was teaching a group of members under 1300 he was there and said "1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 White stands much better because black has the doubled pawn, 4. Ba4 is a mistake." or when showing 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d4 "No one would play this way!". Everything with great belief that only he is right. It's somtimes very tempting to laugh about him...

So maybe you find a ideal club for yourself or you can of course find a club with arrogant guys, who laugh about you. Check it out!

Good to hear  I hoped something like that. Maybe I still have to wait a little bit longer. One month chess hobby is not much after 30 years not playing it at all. I hope I develop my skills, not rapidly but slow slow higher in a year. Now it goes up and down. Maybe there is a weak tendency in my rating up. 

Joining a club has nothing to do with your rating, it has to do with how much you like to play chess. My club has members of all levels and quite a few with 3-digit (very low) USCF ratings who play in our events regularly. No one laughs at people whose play is weak or who drop pieces regularly. It's considered rude, and there is always a dropped piece just waiting to ruin laughing boy's game in the near future.

Ok, and actually loser like me would have important task in clubs: we make winners happy. Every winner needs someone to lose. The more there are losers the more happiness there is in a club...wait a minute - something doesn't make sense in my logic?

U should join your local chess club regardless of your rating. Check out your library, if they don't have a club maybe u can start one. The best and most fun way to get good at chess is to play and watch others play. I go to the Midwood chess club in Brooklyn in the BPL as much as possible. We were a group of players who played in the park, one of our group asked permission to start a club. Permission granted! Maybe u can do the same. 

Never heard that there is chess clubs in libraries here in Finland but thats a good idea. My problem is too that I don't have friens who likes chess. One plays but very seldom. But maybe I then get new ones.

i hope you do link up and join a local club , besides finding a place to spend time with people who share a similar interest you will be able to have club members go over your games , losses are best for this as you learn lots , plus you get to play in a team and i love the comraderie that brings ,

it is a highlight in my week (club night) , ive captained for prob two seasons and really enjoyed the bonds weve formed in our team

at present our club has 42 members aged from 14 to 86 , grades from 190 bcf to 110 , we field 6 teams and are a vibrant bunch ,

hope you find similar and enjoy what a chess club can offer

Beating a weak player doesn't make me happy. Beating a stronger player makes me happy. A somewhat disturbing psychological outlook is emerging from your posts. You seem to think it expected that people laugh at the weak and that dominating others is a goal for most people.

I hope too.

I have heard about ELO  (good band too https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=elo) and I googled that there is something called ECF, and there is FIDE. Ok, I found that there is BCF too (British Chess Federation rating). What kind of formula there would be to change rating number here to try to transform it to BCF?

YEs, I seemed to think so, but not anymore, thanks to you who posts to this thread.

Ok, I will try to find some chess club. And let you know. It could take time (I'm slow in these kind of things, but it certainly gonna happen if I'm soo keen on chess many years in future as I am now).

Don't worry about ratings...I'm struggling to reach 1200 in standard on chess.com and I will be playing at Wijk aan Zee thus january. Just get out there!

Don't worry too much about it. Just go for it. Even if stuff doesn't work out for some reason (which I can't imagine, to be honest) atleast you tried. Most chess clubs are small friendly communities.

Run, don't walk, to your nearest chess club. Believe me, you will not get laughed at. There are players of all levels at every club, and even if everyone is stronger than you at the moment, you will improve and win some games.

The MOST important thing about fitting in at a club, though, is not your rating. It's your attitude. If you are a pleasant person, willing to learn, to laugh at your own blunders, to help others when you get strong enough--you will be accepted with open arms. If, on the other hand, you come across as an arrogant blowhard or a coward with an inferiority complex, you will be rejected out of hand.

I have belonged to a local club for many many years, and I have always been one of the weaker players. But I am a friendly guy with a good sense of humor, and occasionally take a game from a player hundreds of points higher. I have good friends there, and no one has laughed yet.

Yee, I run. Maybe next week. Or perhaps...there are little societies for people who strugle with mental illnessies (I'm manic depressive). Maybe those are good place to start. Yes, that will I do. I made up a little chess club there. 

Don't worry about ratings at first.  Just dive in, and try to get games with the stronger players.  Most of them will be glad to help you learn.  If any anti-social types ever mock you, just shrug it off, don't take it personally (it's just a sign of a character flaw in them).  

800

Yea I have already noticed that my fear and feeling was wrong. But, look, it sounds so fine: "Chess Club" something like fine "Tennis Club" where only rich people goes. And I'm from poor working class. No work, no much education, I have low selfrespect perhaps or something like that...But not anymore, because now I'm in a Hall Of Fame Chess.com club!! http://www.chess.com/groups/home/chesscom-hall-of-famers 

I must have charisma or something like that...

just in border.