Has anyone else found that the competition on ICC and FICS is a bit steeper than over here on Chess.com or is it something I'll just see level out over time?
I think you are right. I also play on a Polish online chess website, and what I've noticed that a lot of people here on chess.com are really casual gamers who don't know their openings and play as they please. On the other websites I feel there are more professionals or semi-professionals.
Really? I get 15 move book lines against 1200 rated players in blitz. I think they know their openings pretty well.
Really? I get 15 move book lines against 1200 rated players in blitz. I think they know their openings pretty well.
I mostly play correspondence chess and I get a lot of weird moves like moving only pawns in moves 1-5...
Different pools make them incomparable.
WTF! how the hell did u manage to get a rating of 0...
I'm working on this topic, but I need more data:
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/post-your-fide-online-and-tactics-rating?lc=1#last_comment
if anyone has a FIDE rating.
Final graph should show the approximate relationship between FIDE and Chess.com ratings.
I don't think you can make any meaningful comparison between online and FIDE rated. I heard another site has a rating estimate forumla you can enter to get a comparison of your online rating translating into uscf or fide, but I can't imagine that it'd be anywhere near accurate. My USCF rating is between 1500-1560 (I don't know my new rating after a tournament I played in recently so I'm ballparking it) and I'm well above that figure here on chess.com. If I converted my chess.com rating to USCF I'd have to knock off about 250 points so that just shows you how unreliable comparing them are.
There is lots of cheating going on here in my opinion. I played players between 1300 and 1700 and i dont see a difference in their strenght. Most ppl play rubbish moves, they lose some material and then they just overplay you. I am rated around 1930 Fide and players around 1300 just kill me like nothing here on chess.com. Most of them play on their own and when they reach a losing position they switch the engine on. But i am just speculating. I guess best way to play here is to play very short time controls. Like 3 0.
People always talk about ratings on chess.com and so forth. Anyone can get artificially high ratings and artificiallly low ratings on chess.com
One thing I think is safe, if you increase your online score of 100 or 200 points for sure you're growing as a force for the game and you'll see the difference in the OTB.
Fide Rating is about 1900 Chess.com live Blitz chess about 1600 Long games. 1950 taktik between 2100 and 2350 but i cant find a relation between chess.com ratings and real ones. a friend of me is a fide master with 2350 Elo and plays 2300 on Chess.com another friend of me hast 1400 and playes nealrly 2000 on chess.com.
chess.com ratings are not accurate at all, I just did a test, I played a 2 min game against the chess.com computer with a 1600 rating I played it to a king and pawn ending losing mainly because the computer had not used any time it still had 2 minutes left in a 2 minute game...lol anyway when I play against other chess.com users who are rated 800-900 I get slaughtered, maybe they are using computers but i dont see how in a 2 minute game that is possible, all i know is that on most other websites I find that my rating is closer to what I thought it might be, like I say I just checked against the computer at 1600 rating strength and that felt about as strong as one of these 800 guys I play against here,
I realise that the you cant compare ratings across different pools and that there will always be a difference between say USCF and ECF and FIDE etc but this is ridiculous.
Is there anyone else out there who has had a similar experience?
Fide es más relevante y preciso ya q implica partidas presenciales teniendo muy en cuenta el aspecto sicológico y físico tanto en blitz como ajedrez de tiempo completo
why this simple and practical question is raised to the existential hight? What is needed - a couple of live examples of players with both - FIDe and chess.com ratings :)
imho chess.com ratings are inflated with hemorhoids.
Furthermore, in OTB chess you cannot cheat by secretly using a computer.
In answer to earlier questions:
My current FIDE rating: 1977
My current chess.com rating: 1700
That is a huge difference, and an even bigger one when you consider that at my best I was a few points short of a equivalent 2200 (approaching 200 in the British rating system)
But I only play 10 minute chess on chess.com, to reduce the ease with which an opponent can use a computer, so perhaps all that the difference shows is that I am stronger, ralative to other players, when I have more time to think.
A 10 minute game on chess.com is not like a 10 minute game, face-to-face, with chess clocks. In a physical game you can make a heck of a lot of moves in just a few seconds. The overhead of mousing, clicking and network delays makes thst completely impossible on chess.com. As a result I lose quite a few won positions on the clock that I would easily convert to the full point in OTB 10-minute chess.
What is the worry with ratings? Your chess strength is what it is. And a rating only approximates to it. Different rating regimes are only roughly comparable, but iot does not matter. If your rating rises you are probably improving. If it falls you are gettign worse, or your initial rating was an over-estimate.
Ive competed in several USCF events, and ive been performing at about a 1650 level. On chess.com, my live standard rating is about 1500 and correspondence is 1600. I think that chess.com ratings are lower than their equivalent USCF ratings.