FIDE vs Chess.com ratings explained

Online is online, Live chess is tournament or over the board

Basically online is virtual, live chess is real life not on the computer

I am 1250 fide (i got rating on my first fide tournament when i was 9 or 10) but i am 2000 blitz chess.com but since in India there is high competition in lower categories so that might be reason for inflation because i heard after 2200 level fide playes of similar rating have similar strength and not dependent on region anymore. (I indirectly wanted to say if i played fide in another country i might had a higher rating which won’t be true after i reach 2200+ just saying lol)

There are reports that since the Pandemic, players in places such as India are vastly underrated n FIDE. This is especially true for young players. That is, 2000 rated young players in India have been known to upset +2400 rated opposition far more often than is statistically predictable. 

In general though, an established blitz rating on chess.com is still a fairly good predictor of FIDE ratings.

Now you've upped it to 900?

Wasn't it 800 just a day or so ago?

This time next year you'll be saying, "FIDE = Chess.com blitz rating - 1200!"

You have forgotten an essential factor: blue line waters or proffessional chess. At the 2200 rating begins the trouble. All becomes hard and cold and you have to come back or to go further alone!! To gather precise statistics info you need to exclude players under 2400. They play just for fun and are not consistent in their moves!! One other thing is the hard puzzles that fide site has. My rating at chess.com puzzles is 3000 but at fide is only 2300

Thank you for that much effort. I really enjoyed the article.

Great post!

Thanks, good reading through this...

this is pure fantasy. the data is self-selected; from what people on chess.com claim is their FIDE rating. this makes every further conclusion unreliable at best and complete fabrication at most likely. additionally, there's proof by just look at it. chess.com rating is obviously not lower than FIDE rating. come on

I am 1500 chess.com and 1501 fide. Some players play better over the board as compared to online.

Let me tell you, 2400 chess.com is not 2133, and 2100 chess.com is not, really not 1936. But the effort, really accurate I think at 1800~

My FIDE is 1642 whilst my cc is 1947

Brother I am 650(I dont play anymore ) chess.com and 1599 fide .if you are playing more otb and you feel that you perform better otb I think if you're 650 you should go for fide . And now I stopped playing online because I think its demotivating me .

This pretty old, but also very useful. Thank you.

This forgot to take into account that a lot of people lie about their fide ratings on here

There's barely any 2300s OTB who are 2400 blitz here that's ridiculous. They're more like 2900 blitz