Every Level of Chess Explained (100–3100 Elo) 🤨

Chess is a beautiful game… mainly because every rating level finds a unique way to suffer.

Let’s take a totally accurate and definitely not biased journey from 100 to 3100: lets see.

100 Elo: Pieces move. That’s already impressive. Strategy is optional. At this level it doesn't even matter how good you play as long as you stop blundering you will win!🥇 
300 Elo: Blunders slightly slower. Still hangs queen with confidence. Learns what a opening is!!!
500 Elo: Knows what a fork is. Uses it once per month. Skewers?? whats that?.
800 Elo: Watches one tutorial and tries to play like a grandmaster… for 3 moves.
1000 Elo: “I’m actually getting good now.” (blunders immediately after)
1200 Elo: Spots tactics! …for the opponent.
1400 Elo: Starts calculating. Stops calculating right before the blunder. Gives up 
1600 Elo: Thinks they understand chess. plays one brilliant and suddenly thinks they are magnus....they are not..
1800 Elo: Plays solid… then randomly sacrifices something for “initiative” 
2000 Elo: Knows openings, endgames, strategy… still loses to tactics 💀
2200 Elo: Calm, precise, slightly terrifying. But a little over confidence and everything falls apart 
2500 Elo: Basically a machine with zero mistakes in the middle game . Gets angry with one loss! 
2800 Elo: Sees everything. Probably saw your blunder yesterday. Still blunders though..
3100 Elo: Not human. Possibly running on pure calculation and coffee. Cheating?? nobody knows?? Unless your Magnus Carlsen or Hikaru nakamura. NOTE This is just my opinion and perspective with jokes added! Anyone can play at any rating a 100 could play like a 500 and a 1000 could play like a 2000 it really depends on the person and there skill.. This is not to offend anyone!

I'm between 2500-2800 ELO, and you're pretty much correct. I get upset at myself for a loss, because I should be losing less than 25% of my games against anyone, and I see most things. I do make plenty of mistakes in the middlegame though, but those are usually positional mistakes

Thats fair your not the only person that struggles in the middle game even GMs do! Middle game is the hardest part of the game in my opinion. Thanks for commenting your thoughts!

Since I have never watched tutorials I am 500+

And I think it is pretty close to reality

i am a 800 don't play like a grandmaster for three moves. i play like a toddler for all moves

well you seem to be advanced in blitz! but if if you ever want a video or channel to learn on youtube I recommend the youtube channel, Remote chess academy or chess vibes! Thank you for commenting! 💬

Everyone starts there, if you ever want help here are some ways you can improve, youtube channels like RCA( remote chess academy ) or chess vibes are great, Try learning chess tactics like skewers forks and pins! Thanks for commenting💬

This is the case when numbers lie

oh😐okay

ELO for which time control?

And is this ELO, or the Glicko-1 system that chess.com uses?

On chess.com my ratings are approximately:

~700 in Daily games

~300-400 in Rapid

~250 in Blitz

~150 in Bullet

Even though my rating hasn't increased dramatically—and sometimes even drops when I'm learning a new opening or technique—I can feel a huge difference between how I play now and how I played when I started.

Since I'm ~200 blitz, I encounter a wide mix of opponents. Some seem to have just learned how the pieces move and fall into simple forks every other mov, and they often take their queen on pawn hunting expeditions that rarely end well. I remember being that player a few years ago. Others clearly know openings and play like someone who actually knows how to play chess. GothamChess would probably say "Are they really a 200?" I think at this level, especially in faster time controls, many losses come from timing out. Some players have just started yesterday and barely know how the pieces move, while others maintain a low rating because they frequently run out of time, make one major blunder in an otherwise solid game, or play without thinking in some of their matches.

I do know what a fork is. And I use it quite often. I had to look up what a skewer was; I didn't know that a skewer was different from a fork. In any event, I knew how to use forks and skewers, I just didn't know the correct terminology. When I started, I would simply take pieces randomly, now I try to take pieces based on whether it would leave me with a better position and also considering the opponent's position. I also think about the number of attackers and defenders.

Playing against someone much weaker, I can easily win, even with a very short time control. Playing against someone much better, I feel like I am playing against a wall. They block everything that I can do, before I can do it. Nothing seems to happen for a long time, then they decimate me.

I started off with exclusively hypermodern openings. The very first opening I learned was the Grob. Now I am learning some classical openings. I feel like I am starting over in chess, but I think I like the classical openings better. It is true what GothamChess said, beginners like space. It was really annoying to get boxed in and cramped all the time. I'll have to re-learn some of the hypermodern openings in the future, learning to undermine the opponent instead of just playing passively.

Gteat to here your improving 😀Also I was talking about elo like blitz and rapid and maybe bullet although bullet and daily have different ways or learning and improving, Thanks for commenting💬

I think 500s know what skewers are. I've seen multiple do discovred checks to win a piece. But yes, we do make random blunders.

yeah some 500s do know what a skewer is ,but usually when I use to play at 500 they missed them! Thanks for commenting 💬 GeckoSoloYT

But every chess players can make a miss or blunder even though they are gms or titled players

Technically that is true but as you advance you can calculate more in to the future and see better moves, A 1000 elo player would make 100s of more mistakes then Magnus Carlsen and yet Magnus Still blunders every once and a while. Thanks for commenting