What is considered a beginner rating?

To be honest I have stagnated at around 2200 since my last two tournaments, constantly flactuating between 2190 - 2227.

Starting from 2100, every 100 jump becomes exponentially more difficult.

In my opinion 2300 - 2400 is the greatest step in competitive chess, everything beyond that is just super fine tuning and perfect preparation.

I am currently studying countless new opening variations in the King's Gambit and London in order to finally break that 2300 barrier. 

1800 is pretty good

IMO the first very tough plateau is 1800 ELO.

And getting above 2100 ELO is a lot harder of course.

How long have you been playing OTB/online?

4 years I think.

What's your FIDE rating?

Canadians are always tricky players, I played a set agaimst an NM from Montreal not two weeks ago.

imo its the 1500-1600 range

I wish....the only tricky thing about playing me is deciding which winning (of many) line to go for 

We do have a few good players in Montreal and Toronto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxO4GAhyAt4

yes it's a plateau but the 1800 is a lot tougher, but for sure only a minority can go above 1600 ELO.

Is Carlson in charge of word meaning?

I wouldn't go that far, but I agree that approx. <2500 which is the conventional GM level, should probably be considered beginners.

We are all beginners trying to reach a level where we can comfortably and confidently play an actually strong opponent of that caliber.

Until you've played and been obliterated by a > 2500 GM level player, you won't be able to realize the inhumanly sized gap between them and us.

I see no reason to believe that very many are trying to reach a level where it would be possible to comfortably and confidently play an opponent at the conventional GM level.

1200

2700

What is the basis for those numbers?

A dead physicist.

I meant @Quwu

As expected, all of your claims are based on your personal, subjective experience.🤨

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