What rating range is classified as intermediate???
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It’s gotta be between 600- 900 ! 🤷♂️
1400?
1200 - 1400 or 1200 - 1600
AMC1991 wrote:
OttoMister wrote:
Hthp wrote:
I think 1000-1200 don't know is it correct
I would probably say a bit higher like 1500
Well I'm rated around 1500 in rapid and that is around 95% percentile (i.e. only 5% of players are higher rated). Whilst that is still an intermediate level as there is no way I would class myself as an advanced level player, I would argue the starting range for someone classed as intermediate is much lower than 1500. If the starting range was 1500, then that is basically saying that 95% of players are beginners. Players rated over 1000 should still have a good understanding of the game.
You have novices, then beginners, then weak club players and then intermediates. In a chess club with 50 members, probably 15 to 20 are below the level of weak club players, up to maybe 1400, who are unlikely to be playing for club teams unless there are quite weak chess leagues or divisions they can enter. There are novices tournaments to cater for them. Then come the minor tournaments, which are roughly capped at about 1600 or so and which start at maybe 1400. Many players below about 1400 will never, ever improve. Weak club players usually have leagues and divisions to cater to them.
Intermediate players are those who have broken out of the weak club player barrier and who may be on their way to becoming strong players. They can also be former strong players who are growing old or infirm or who are out of practice. There are often intermediate tournaments in chess congresses that cater for them. Strong club players may be those over 1900 (FIDE) or maybe a bit less, who also may represent their counties at a fairly senior level, and so on.
talliholic wrote:
I think like 1300-1700
Yeah I would say thats fairly correct!
I think chessgoals.com nailed it:
- Novice (<800)
- Beginner (800-1099)
- Intermediate (1100-1399)
- Intermediate2 (1400-1699)
- Advanced (1700-1999)
- Expert (2000-2299)
ScatteredWealth wrote:
How is 1500 already 95% percentile lol
Because 95% of chess.com players never made it that far.
1000- 1500
Above 1900 rapid
1400 to 1800
Intermediate is the region between weak and strong. 1700 isn't strong, even in club chess but it's maybe strong intermediate. Incidentally, most people agree that a beginner is someone who has just started and a novice is one step further on, so chessgoals.com has it the wrong way round.
Logically and semantically, a beginner is just beginning, whereas a novice is someone who's relatively new to something. Also, the idea that a 1700 is an advanced player is just ludicrous.
Optimissed wrote:
1400 to 1800
You should mention whether you mean fide, rapid or blitz
i'd guess like 2200. anything lower, it's just blunder city, i'd guess
2200 FIDE is very strong/advanced.
1500 is way above average so hard to defend it being called beginner.
What ever ranking system requires 95% percentile for intermediate status?
ABC_of_EVERYTHING wrote:
Optimissed wrote:
1400 to 1800
You should mention whether you mean fide, rapid or blitz
I get criticised for it but I always talk in terms of FIDE because it's impossible to use Chess.com ratings in an accurate way and I don't know anything about US ratinges, except they're a bit inflated compared with FIDE. FIDE slowplay and rapidplay didn't used to be far apart. Bullet's just about how fast you move the pieces and blitz is too variable.