Chess.com rating and actual FIDE rating.
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I have been playing online chess for a few years now, but I have never played in a tournament before, neither do I have a FIDE rating. Since many chess articles in chess.com make reference to a players' Elo/FIDE ratings, I am curious about where I stand and want to know if there is a way to use my chess.com rating to estimate my Elo/FIDE rating. I think that they would likely be linearly be related with a positive gradient, but if I were to plot a graph around how much would the gradient and y-intercept be? Or how else would you estimate it?
Apr 20, 2017
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There are tons of posts on here with people attempting to come up with accurate ways to estimate it. In general, at the higher reating levels, with known OTB ratings, the seems to be a decent correlation.
At lower levels, there are larger margins of error.
Apr 20, 2017
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Not sure how accurate this is, if at all, but I read somewhere that if you don't play otb and want a ballpark figure of what your fide rating is, deduct 200 points from your rapid online rating. I don't remember where I read it or if it was bs.
Apr 20, 2017
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Slow_pawn wrote:
Not sure how accurate this is, if at all, but I read somewhere that if you don't play otb and want a ballpark figure of what your fide rating is, deduct 200 points from your rapid online rating. I don't remember where I read it or if it was bs.
That means I should be 1700 in rapid 
... if it was accurate (discounting me being an outlier).
Apr 20, 2017
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Martin_Stahl wrote:
Slow_pawn wrote:
Not sure how accurate this is, if at all, but I read somewhere that if you don't play otb and want a ballpark figure of what your fide rating is, deduct 200 points from your rapid online rating. I don't remember where I read it or if it was bs.
That means I should be 1700 in rapid ... if it was accurate (discounting me being an outlier).
Actually according to your profile your fide rating would be 1279 lol. You are obviously better than that.
Apr 20, 2017
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Slow_pawn wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
Slow_pawn wrote:
Not sure how accurate this is, if at all, but I read somewhere that if you don't play otb and want a ballpark figure of what your fide rating is, deduct 200 points from your rapid online rating. I don't remember where I read it or if it was bs.
That means I should be 1700 in rapid ... if it was accurate (discounting me being an outlier).
Actually according to your profile your fide rating would be 1279 lol. You are obviously better than that.
That's what I mean. I'm mid-1500's OTB, with a high of mid-1600 (USCF not FIDE but close enough). Based on the 200 point deduction of Rapid to get the OTB rating, that would mean my Rapid here should be 1700.
I don't play a ton of Live, so my rating might be a little lower than it could be, but I don't know if it is by that much.