so i think im a 1000 plus rated player am i still beginer?

well firstly your are not a 1000 plus player and secondly i think i read somewhere that you not officially ranked as a beginner if you get an elo of 1200 

Well, your profile says you are rated 430, regardless of what you think.   

Beginner is not just rating.  If you have played for 20 years and are rated 800 or whatever, you are not beginning, you just have peaked at a low rating.   A beginner just learned the rules and has no clue what an opening is.   If you have played and studied the game for a few years, you are no longer a beginner, not really.   But in that case, something else is wrong if you can't beat people who just now learned the rules. 

Novice maybe. I reckon intermediate starts around 1400 on here. Generally, a 1400 player has grasped opening, middle and endgame basic principles and doesn't routinely hang pieces or pawns to simple calculation errors.

me to

Beginner is probably 0 - 1000 intermediate 1000 - 1400 advanced 1400 - 2000 expert 2000 - 2400 master 2400 - 2800 grandmaster 2800 - 3100 super GM 3100 - 3500 Stockfish is 3900

This is by chess.com rating

Why do you think you are a 1000 plus rated player when the rating system thinks you are rated under 500? Maybe you are thinking wrong

honestly i think that 1000 is the point in between beginner and intermediate.  I'm rated 1000, and yet I still am beginning in a lot of ways, I feel I have a pretty solid grasp on chess, and will be entering the intermediate level soon.  I know some openings and basic tactics, but am still not quite careful enough.  If I had the knowledge I had now, and didn't hang anything and had the necessary patience and carefulness, I could very well be rated 1200-1300.  But right now, and for a little while, I'm going to be rated 1000, and that is a fact of present life I'm willing to accept.  If you're 400 and feel you should be 1000, then there is a reason.  When I was 800-900, I thought that I should be 1000, and that it wasn't fair.  But I look back and realize that those ratings were perfectly justified.  

Im probably around 1450 (I tilted everything in a day and am slowly getting back up there), and I am probably just coming into the intermediate level. Being a beginner and being good at the game are entirely different things. First of all you are not rated 1000, no matter what you think if your chess.com rating is 430. Whether or not you are a beginner depends on how long you've been playing.

I'm 1040 and I'm terrible. My latest win was a total embarrassment, including giving away a promoted queen for no reason other than time pressure. I can't believe how many moves I just don't see, and I doubt I will ever see them.

What I don't get is - I'll face people at my rank who are significantly worse, and then others at the same rank who stomp me into the ground. I guess some may be on their way down and others on their way up, but I don't know. 

I know I shouldn’t have, but I laughed out loud at this! I’m somewhere in between the two... on most days.

you're right but 1000 is still solidly beginner level.

It's not unheard for people to gain or lose 50 to 150 points on a hot or cold streak: that 950 who blasted you off the board might be an "actual" 1100 who was on a bad tilt the day before.

yeah once my opponent hung their queen on like move 6 in a rapid game and promptly resigned. Either playing at 2am or a beginner on their way down. It's actually kinda weird because I've never had a player at my level completely crush me. Just players at my level or above who weren't playing so well.

Just my opinion, but when you're in the mid-1200s (chess.com rapid) most people will probably believe you if you say you are no longer a beginner.

you are not a 1000 rated player. in fact you are not even half of that. you are a 432 rated player. so you are a beginner. but if you were a 1000 rated player, yes, you would still be a beginner.

it only matters what you think.  don't listen to all the haters out there.

so if you think you're not a beginner, then you're not.  also if you think it's spelt beginer then that's how it's spelt.

simple, really.

so at his best, he'd still be a beginner? way to be a debbie downer.

autobunny: im not sure he can detect sarcasm. i think you are only contributing to his delusion.