Are you good for your age?

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atarw

Compared to other players your age, are you good? Can you hold your own against them? How can you tell if you are good for your age?

chessblood

Yes.

ivandh

No.

atarw

Yeah, but how can you tell if you are good for your age? For all I know, I could be living in a chess professionall land where I am not good, but am good in some other place.

ivandh

If you spend too much time worrying about whether you are good or not then you will not be as good as if you just played.

CerebralAssassin

hell no....but considering I've taken up this game at the ripe old age of 24....I'm OK.Tongue out

e4nf3

I live in a retirement community. I could spot all of them a queen and still win. And, I don't consider myself all that good...class B.

atarw

No seriously.

atarw

I would like to be you!
Does USCF have a "top 100" list per age level? 

piphilologist

lol im 14 and over 2000 fide

atarw

OK, than I guess you are good, but not master strength. Yet...

chessmaster102

gotta say no rating wise im currently playing for a team where our captin is a 15year old 2088  monster

Yoshi_Chomps_Kiwi

i know a fifth grader at uscf 1980

chessmaster102
SunshineJG wrote:

And chessmaster you wouldn't happen to be talking about Mr. Pawnpusher would you? :)

no hes not even rated that high.

waffllemaster

It's hard to find a top rated kid who's rated below 2000 unless you go really really young... like 5 year olds :)  So it's all relative.

Maybe a better question would be, are you good considering the age you started playing :)

shikamaru92

age or rating has nothing to do with anything. im 13 my rating is 1319 and i beat my expert level coach 4 out of 10 times

waffllemaster

When they give blindfold and rook odds the games don't really count shikamaru Tongue out

PLAVIN81

FrownI AGREE WITH SHIKAMARU92 IT IS ALL REVALENT

Morris_W3

I'm no good at any age, but I think I could at least hold my own against anybody.  I'm sort of like king of my own hill.Cool

netzach
PLAVIN79 wrote:

I AGREE WITH SHIKAMARU92 IT IS ALL REVALENT

Paul maybe you could do us all a favour here:

  1. Stop using capital-letters it's SHOUTING !
  2. Proof-read or spell-check your post prior to submitting it...