How does chess.com ratings compare with FIDE ratings?

Please give your chess.com rating followed by your OTB rating, then we can see the difference

1900 (c.com correspondence) - 1600 (fide or chessa) = 300

1700 (chesscube blitz) - 1600 = 100

I play only about 3 otb tournaments in a year.

1700 (chess.com) - 2000 (fide) = -300

By the way - USCF ratings I think are just slightly inflated.  A USCF rated person I think is probably maybe 5-10% lower in rating for FIDE.  But they are relatively close.  If you establish a USCF rating, you're probably around 100 points lower than that, FIDE.  I think this is due to rating floors in USCF play that are slowly inflating the ratings.  For example, a person is getting older and playing at 1900 playing strength, but their rating floor is 2000, so a person who is 1950 beats them and earns the points for beating a person who is rated 2000, yet the 2000 player loses no points.  It just slowly but surely inflates the ratings.

Looks like a red khmer.

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Since I'm rated about 1300 on here, it must mean that 1300 on Chess.com translates to 2600 FIDE.

I would say for ratings c1400 you would probably be c1500 Fide. For higher ratings I would say Fide ratings would be between 100 and 300 higher. Alot of nonsense here about Fide ratings being 300 points lower than chess.com ratings....I'm c1700 (playing only 5 min blitz) here and c1950 OTB (tournament clocks). There are also GMs here who have 2200 ratings...ie 300 lower than OTB. Conclusion, you are probably a better player than you think you are! I have seen some games from 1200 players here that have really surprised me! The best player is the one who enjoys it the most...

Usually low 1800s chess.com blitz

1700-ish chess.com standard

1830 chess.com turn-based

1904 Fide... Mind you, this is the one I put complete concentration into!

I agree with this for a few reasons. One is that we tend to have distractions while online playing chess and not in the tourney hall. People here tend to use help through openings atleast, legally in online games. It is also more cut throat here. If you go to a tourney and there are only 3 other players in your class, you probably have a good chance of doing well against them, as compared to how you might do against 200 of the 400 people in your rating class on Chess.com. So if the perception is that all of the people the same rating here seem to have their way with you, it is only because of what you don't see and how games are being played, as well as, the environment you are playing in otherwise.

It's more cut throat here?  Where we play free, anonymously, for no money, without giving up a weekend, and have aids like boards and databases, and knowing there may be differences in distraction or effort?  Where players with 3 days to move take 10 seconds?  I find that silly.  Tournament play is cut throat.  Online play is almost entirely casual.

I meant cut throat in terms of more competition within a given class than the rated games at your local chess club from a pool of 4 players or 20 person tournament, that might have 4 players in your class, for no money. Only the top players who are GM's get paid. So I don't find it silly, especially considering that it is so cut throat here, people feel the need to use chess programs to win. In fact I'd say that adds a whole new barbarism of cut throat.

Well I guess it's in the perception.  When I play an engine online I think of it as a non-game.  Tourney ratings are more reliable IMO (for the reasons you mention, distraction, cheating, etc) so I think 5 random players in my OTB class offer me better competition than 5 random online players, although maybe taken over many games it all sort of evens out.

In big enough tourneys, you'll find dozens if not a hundred or more people in your class.  There are also class prizes, often 1st through 3rd at least.

Chess.com ratings are VERY inflated compared to USCF ratings, and I suspect the same is true of their relationship to FIDE ratings as well. I've read other members opinions that chess.com ratings are probably +300 pts higher than comparable USCF ratings, I dunno for sure but don't think that opinion is unreasonable even if it's too high - I think the ratings here are at least 200 pts higher than comparable USCF ratings.

I'm currently 2147 here (turn-based) and my USCF peak (back in the 80's) was 2007 (OTB) and I was way better back than. Part of the problem is so many members who lose on time or just quit playing, adding lots of undeserved rating pts to the pool - and members like me. I've "won" several highly rated games that s/h/b drawn or lost, and a dozen or more lower-rated games on forfeit giving me rating pts I didn't earn.

@dbeuscher  chess.com seems to have a pretty active program for expelling cheaters, and most cheaters have ratings way higher than yours. 

imo for lower ratings here on chess.com there is a correlation between FIDE and chess.com ratings but the reason you will find a 2300+ master rated around 1900 here is because there are probably a lot of people who use computers around that rating.I read it somewhere.

In online the chess.com rating is probably 200-300 points higher than FIDE ratings. In live chess for anyone rated below 1800 FIDE they are almost spot on. The higher your FIDE rating the greater the chance your chess.com rating is increasingly more inflated. There might even be a formula here...

Nope, the reason is that he plays simul blitz in online chess. Catch him some day when he's online and keep refreshing the list of his current games every 10 seconds or so -- you'll see that he will typically make his move in one or two games. Quite amazing.

I have so many household distractions that I would probably have more peace at a tourney...

All I am saying is this: cheating, opening books usage, playing much weaker opponents all the time and bullet games aside; you will not find a 1500+ player on chess.com who has a Fide rating of 1200. However you may well find many 1750 chess.com players who have Fide ratings in the 1900s.