You people are right! gm is unachievable, but enjoying it is most important! I know a lot about chess. Hopefully, one day I reap the reward of having a high rating to reflect my efforts, but the true reward is the improving little by little. I do believe I can master this game. It may not be apparent today, but I believe I will. I believe in myself. No, I'm not just going to give up. I have worked way to hard to throw chess in the trash bin. Thank you for all your wonderful responses. It helps me see things in a way better light. 😄
Is 1700 a decent score
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Dec 17, 2014
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#23
1700 means you make really good moves some of the time and such good moves some of the time. The issue is consistancy. When you make good moves all of the time and occasionally brilliant moves some of the time, your rating will improve. Players above 2400, when compared to the rest of us are making the best move every time in the position.
Stop caring about your rating and you will be free.
Free for what, though?
The answer is: to improve, play, and enjoy chess.
Dec 17, 2014
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#25
Squarely wrote:
Yes your correct. I just want to point out that a good player formulates a plan, and that it's not the single move that wins games, but a series of really good moves.
1700 means you make really good moves some of the time and such good moves some of the time. The issue is consistancy. When you make good moves all of the time and occasionally brilliant moves some of the time, your rating will improve. Players above 2400, when compared to the rest of us are making the best move every time in the position.
Dec 19, 2014
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#27
tjepie wrote:
chessmentot scores don´t count, online chess rating is just the amount of time spent per move so your only rating is tactic, you should try blitz. of you score 1700 than you are good.
Exactly, although some people suck at blitz (like me...) but are able to play a quite decent game at longer time controls.
@LouisCreed: if you manage to not blunder simple tactics about 9 out of 10 games I am sure your online rating will easily go up to 1900 or higher. But still this does not say much of how good you may score OTB and under time pressure.
Dec 19, 2014
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#28
Math0t wrote:
Thanks. heh.., well, my chess powers fizzled so I don't expect to be anywhere close to 1700 for awhile. But, you know, I feel like the people I play are decent and challenging. Its all good.
tjepie wrote:
chessmentot scores don´t count, online chess rating is just the amount of time spent per move so your only rating is tactic, you should try blitz. of you score 1700 than you are good.
Exactly, although some people suck at blitz (like me...) but are able to play a quite decent game at longer time controls.
@LouisCreed: if you manage to not blunder simple tactics about 9 out of 10 games I am sure your online rating will easily go up to 1900 or higher. But still this does not say much of how good you may score OTB and under time pressure.
So Louis, if blundering is your problem, you can rise quite fast on the rating by decreasing number of games. 42 is to much too keep on track simoultanously for players like me. I want to get down to ca 25, giving me the time to afteranalyze some of my games. This analyzing is very important steps on the improvementladder.
Dec 19, 2014
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#30
You've also completed 191 online games in just 20 days. That sounds like rather a fast rate of completion for high quality chess! Although taking longer doesn't necessarily mean better either - I only make a move in a lot of my games when I am under 24 hours to do so rather than because I spend 3 days thinking about my move.
On the other hand, huge numbers of games gives an opportunity to test a lot of ideas and variations, making a broader basis to build strenght upon. What works for you, works for you, but the ratingnumbers probably will rise faster when you start playing less than 30games simoultanously.
Dec 19, 2014
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#32
But all in all I think 1700 is decent because it's a nice round number 
And that reminds me I really should work on my ugly 960 rating...
Aug 27, 2019
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#33
wow practising chess for ten years... that longer than I've lived and I'm 1722 fide
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#34
1700 uscf is in the top 10 percent of all uscf players, somewhere between 700 and 800 is average and 1500 nowadays is not because of how many more people play then used to back in the 80's and 90's. Only about a 200th of chess players in the us have ever played a USCF rated game though, and in terms of rating equivalency on chess.com that will put you around 1700, 1800 or 1900 very likely which puts you in the top 1 percent of players around the world, while the average across the board is around 600, which probably is about 400 or 500 USCF, so ya its good. And anyone who thinks its not is likely higher rated then you and so focused on competition or feeling like they arent or are high enough that they've lost touch with what is across the board. If you hit 4 digits regular USCF at any point you are pretty good and could coach players up to the A Class/advanced level easily.
A rating of 1700 isn't bad. It is the rating of the average club play ... neither good nor a total beginner. Unfortunately, passion alone is not enough to become a strong chess player. But if you enjoy it so much, why care about the rating?