I'm not sure what the average FIDE rating is but it is actually a little hard to get a FIDE rating, depending on where you are, and for a long time, if you didn't qualify for at least a 2000 rating, you couldn't get a rating. They have relaxed that now but I would think that history will play into the average being higher than expected.
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Oct 31, 2017
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Yeah that's true that some countries has their own rating like USA where only few players has a FIDE rating. But, in France almost everyone has a FIDE rating, so i guess knowing the average FIDE rating in France would be more accurate if I want to know the average level of club players?
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Maybe. I don't follow all the rule changes but when they started allowing sub-2000 it didn't immediately drop to the minimum of 1000, so those decreases may also play into the averages some.
Here is an article a few years old that may have some pertinent information: http://en.chessbase.com/post/sonas-overall-review-of-the-fide-rating-system-220813
Playing chess but dont know about FIDE. Better play snake and ladder.
Hello, I would be curious to know what is the average FIDE rating? I heard somewhere that it was something around 1750-1800, but I'm not sure about the source and this seems pretty high to me.
So if anyone knows something about the subjet, let me know
Ps: On chess.com the stats shows that I'm better than 99.5% of players (in blitz), but I'd only be at the average of FIDE chess players (as I'm around 1800 FIDE), I know there are a lot more chess.com players than FIDE players but still the difference seems very high to me.