How many people in the world are 2000 elo?

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Bah, the story I told above is not all there is, of course. No sane IM would expect to win 10-0 against a 2000+ player, and, of course, I collected a few draws and wins against Masters, and even a draw against a GM. It's hard to tell the whole truth, when, in reality, they come rare to us, and you'll be lucky if, in real life, you play more than 5 FM-IM and GM together in a year.

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can you bench 300 pounds? thats very strong for normal people but weak for professionals, yet its still like an 85th percentile bench.

by comparison a 2000 elo player is like the 95th percentile. Sure a 2000 is a piranha in a shark tank compared to professionals who are in the 99.2-99.7th percentile , but you are awesome . in a tournament hall, you are at least stronger of 19 of 20 people there and probably fairly well known by many at the local level.

in some countries, where the top player may be a 2300 FM/IM person, the 2000 is a candidate for board 4 in the olympiad. Some U.S states, you are probably the strongest player there!

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llama_l wrote:
darkunorthodox88 wrote:

can you bench 300 pounds? thats very strong for normal people but weak for professionals, yet its still like an 85th percentile bench.

by comparison a 2000 elo player is like the 95th percentile. Sure a 2000 is a piranha in a shark tank compared to professionals who are in the 99.2-99.7th percentile , but you are awesome . in a tournament hall, you are at least stronger of 19 of 20 people there and probably fairly well known by many at the local level.

in some countries, where the top player may be a 2300 FM/IM person, the 2000 is a candidate for board 4 in the olympiad. Some U.S states, you are probably the strongest player there!

Although remember, most of these kids mean 2000 rapid, they don't mean OTB.

2000 OTB is much better than 2000 rapid, and like you said, 2000 OTB is good enough to be well known by local players as one of the best in your small area.

But I like the comparison with fitness... if you take a kid at 13, and have them start lifting weights regularly, then by age 20 they're going to be in the top 1% easily, because almost no one starts that early... same for chess, if you take a kid, and give them training, then 10 years later anything less than FM is kind of pathetic... but starting as an adult FM is impossible.

2000 rapid is very elusive. some rapid players in the 2050 can beat me in of my bad days, others are pure fodder and cant imagine them being even 1800 in real life

Avatar of cheesy_cheesy_happy

i am a 2000 elo in bullet

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im 2000

Avatar of cheesy_cheesy_happy

ok

Avatar of manusisbadatchess

im about 500 average elo and at almost all my rapid and blitz games I play like a 700 to 900 even a game where I played like a 1150 and I'm stuck at around 300-200 elo for longer formats me being at about 580-570 in bullet I beat bots that are 1300 but it seems like I'm bad even though I'm know I'm better then a lot of people higher elo than me also this is a different account from my main.

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ik im over 3 years late but my rating is 2015 and im #78583 so i would assume theres about 95000 people rated above 2000