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Is chess.com rating the same as fide rating
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Apr 23, 2021
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Rapid is inflated a lot here, your blitz rating should be closer to standard fide rating. Also blitz at top level (above 2400) is inflated here (compared to fide, the main reason is that there are much more active users here than at fide).
TCSPlayer wrote:
Rapid is inflated a lot here, your blitz rating should be closer to standard fide rating. Also blitz at top level (above 2400) is inflated here (compared to fide, the main reason is that there are much more active users here than at fide).
statistics show the opposite to be true, that rapid over 2000 is a more accurate estimation of your fide rating than bullet or blitz is
You mix two different concepts. Rapid is closer to otb games, but here it is inflated. What I said is based on a study on rating comparisons between chess.com, lichess and Fide. They compared blitz on online sites with standard Fide.
One reason to compare online blitz with standard rating is that in online most people play blitz, but not everyone actively plays rapid, so ratings are more meaningful (contains the whole pool of players).
One reason to compare online blitz with standard rating is that in online most people play blitz, but not everyone actively plays rapid, so ratings are more meaningful (contains the whole pool of players).
Apr 24, 2021
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#6
Rapid ratings over 2000 are a terrible estimate for anything since there are (relatively speaking) very few players over 2000 (and due to cheating, but chess.com has been improving that over the last few years).
Lower rapid rating might be a somewhat reasonable estimate for FIDE.
Most experienced players use blitz to help estimate... but I can understand why a new player wouldn't want to do that. New / low rated players are pretty bad at blitz, so they might be 1000 OTB and 700 at blitz or something like this... but as you gain experience blitz becomes a pretty good estimate.
Not that there is anything particularly good about blitz. It just happened to work out that way for this website... in the future it could be bullet or rapid or even daily.
Apr 24, 2021
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#7
BTW I don't mean chess.com blitz = FIDE. I'd probably be closer to 2000 FIDE than 2200. I say it's a good estimate because I know that for myself I should subtract about 200 points 
Apr 24, 2021
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#8
Will I guess that's wrong because most of the people here play for fun but in fide the play for money and i know a guy who's 1900 in fide but he's playing for many years , in chess.com people play for like a year and the become 2000 that doesn't make any sense
Apr 25, 2021
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Let14Down wrote:
Hello i have 2000 rating in rapid here, and i never played otb i was wondering if i can beat a fide 2000 player.
Next to impossible. Online ratings are Inflated.
Apr 25, 2021
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#11
Not a chance. You have to realize that ratings reflect the pool of players involved.
FIDE is much more expensive than national tournaments, so the cost involved eliminates a lot of weaker players. Even 1300 FIDE is pretty flipping strong, since weaker players usually don't bother with the cost.
That also means there isn't a one to one translation between different rating systems.
Apr 25, 2021
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#12
Ithink you are right but how i would ever know how good my level against a fide player
Apr 25, 2021
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#13
Let14Down wrote:
Ithink you are right but how i would ever know how good my level against a fide player
Play in FIDE tournaments.
Apr 25, 2021
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#14
unfortunately here in my country fide tournaments are very rare like you have to travel and pay a lot
Apr 25, 2021
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Let14Down wrote:
unfortunately here in my country fide tournaments are very rare like you have to travel and pay a lot
And that is a very common situation to be in. I'm in the US, and it would cost me about $1000USD to attend the closest FIDE sanctioned tournament, including travel and hotel. And that's eating pop tarts everyday.
Hello i have 2000 rating in rapid here, and i never played otb i was wondering if i can beat a fide 2000 player.