Is 1500 a good rapid rating on chess.com?

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wishiwereficher
yychesssblackbelt wrote:
LuxAeterna83 wrote:

1500 is very good if you are an adult who has obligations and restricted free time to play. Don't listen to the elitists here who will tell you it isn't.

The more you learn about chess the more you realise how hard it is. 1500 is terrible if I'm being honest.

So I got a room with 100 people doing a particular sport and you happen to be better then 90 of them at said sport and thats just terrible???????

Hoffmann713
chesssblackbelt ha scritto:

So yes 1500 is terrible. You're closer to someone who doesn't know the rules than you are to 2000.

Yes. I see your point. Perhaps "terrible" is an exaggerated term, but I understand the concept.

If you want to make an "objective" speech about the playing strength, you should refer to the path that goes from 0 to at least the first serious goal, that is, the title of Master, and understand at which point of this path you place yourself. The distance between a 1500 chesscom and a pure novice is much smaller than the abysmal distance between a 1500 and a National Master. Not to mention the sidereal distances between a NM and an IM, and between an IM and a GM.

 

The truth is that 95% of us are low-level players: beginners, amateurs, decent club players, nothing more in terms of playing strength. Only if we get close to being a master can we consider ourselves really strong, serious players. But only an infinitesimal fraction will become players of that level.

There's nothing offensive about that, it's just acknowledging how long the road is to get to a significant level at chess.

 

Everything else is subjective.

For example, for me something like 1500 would be satisfying, because I know that I could hardly go further, for several reasons. In this sense, each of us can set his own goal, consider it a milestone, and be satisfied if he reaches it. But this is really subjective.

 

whiteknight1968

If you are in the top 5%, but frustrated about your "lack of progress", and "stressed about not losing rating points", are you really doing better than someone around the 50 percentile who is really enjoying playing and not too concerned about the numbers ?

I don't think so.

Midfield_17-D
I played Bullet for 5 months, and got 1500
SubscribeToKaiqiChess

How about like blitz or classical

jillijio

im 2000

Gustaf_Dahlberg

I know people that are above 2000 on Lichess but only 1500 on chess.com, so the rating systems are obviously different.

As I mentioned above: Percentile!

blueemu

1500 is a pretty good rating, yes.

Asking "Am I good" isn't so good, though.

In chess, validation comes from results, not from canvassing opinions.

We don't VOTE on who wins a chess tournament. We PLAY.

No_Die_Queen_Carry

hmm

joelr314

In traditional martial arts they say that as well. You don't start actually learning until black belt.

Can it be explained what it is you don't learn until the high levels? Like is there a good book that explains it? Similar to how pop-science books can show you what modern physics is about and what equations are used. You don't actually have any knowledge to get hired as a physicist but you at least understand what they study and work on at the PhD levels.

RVSP16

1500 is a certificate of learnng the basics of chess

imanoobforyou

I was stuck between 300 to 600 ELO in chess rapid bcuz I quitted chess when I came back I became 1500 elo in 4 months is that good I studied a lot of chess games and learned multiple openings my main acc is RhyanNartea

phoenixtheatre
Woah that’s crazy good!
whiteknight1968

Well you could be 1500 rapid and play only 10/0, or you could be 1500 playing just 60/0.

Different disciplines, but chess.com measures them by the same yardstick.

So the "rapid" rating is meaningless. The other site does it better.

YourLie_onApril

2000 is a good rating

sillyspicysausage
99999999999999999999999 is an even better rating
GavinTheKing668

2035 is a great ratig

Yosef-posen

Yes

Charizard_637

I don't know, is it?

randomchessguy555

It's meh, I've played 1 year