I have done a little searching, I was wondering if there was any PC or mobile app that can read a pgn of a game and give an estimated rating of the play/players.
I have a version of Fritz that when I play it gives a running commentary during a match on your rating (i.e <move 12>you are currently playing like an 1800 elo. <move 13>dropped your queen, well done your current rating is 84....only slightly exaggerated example!)
I know such a rating would be quite arbitrary, but I have recently come back to playing, and I would like to feed in a few old games to get a rough baseline, more as a target, so I could have an idea of when I am approaching where I was at (I would be keen to know where I was at!)
Your rating is mainly useful in identifying appropriate opponents.
After 51 blitz games, your current rating is probably pretty accurate.
There's a statistical component of the chess.com rating system that judges how accurate your rating is. It's called the Glicko system. https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-ratings---how-they-work
It's much more accurate than any program pretending to rate you based on one move.
Not quite what I was asking - really I am looking for some way to compare my old games to newer ones (even if the actually number were meaningless.)
I have done a little searching, I was wondering if there was any PC or mobile app that can read a pgn of a game and give an estimated rating of the play/players.
I have a version of Fritz that when I play it gives a running commentary during a match on your rating (i.e <move 12>you are currently playing like an 1800 elo. <move 13>dropped your queen, well done your current rating is 84....only slightly exaggerated example!)
I know such a rating would be quite arbitrary, but I have recently come back to playing, and I would like to feed in a few old games to get a rough baseline, more as a target, so I could have an idea of when I am approaching where I was at (I would be keen to know where I was at!)
Your rating is mainly useful in identifying appropriate opponents.
After 51 blitz games, your current rating is probably pretty accurate.
There's a statistical component of the chess.com rating system that judges how accurate your rating is. It's called the Glicko system. https://www.chess.com/article/view/chess-ratings---how-they-work
It's much more accurate than any program pretending to rate you based on one move.