A problem always develops when you decide to equate a numerical rating with a language description. For a moment lets forget about chess. What is meant when we listen to someone sing or play the piano and say that person is a good singer or good piano player? Some people in the audience may think that person is a good singer and some may think they dont care for what there hearing. If enough people like the singing then the person is a good singer.
Suppose there was a chess match going on and a crowd of people where watching the two people. Lets also suppose that no one in the crowd has the slightest idea of what there elo rating is. People watching the game would still non the less form opinions about the skill level of the players. If the majority of people watching where thinking that one or both of the players where playing quite well then they would form the assumption at least based on this one game that they where good players.
There is no specific number that goes with good. At best we form a very arbitrary standard to associate with the word good as a kind of generic model , but in reality each person has such an individualistic idea of words that we use to describe things and one cannot draw any true meaning from them , except perhaps as a statistical study in away that says the average opinion is thus. The key operative word here is opinion.
The only thing that can be truly said is that if you have a elo of 2000 you are better than x pct of people and not as good as y pct of people.
I hope all you who read this think that it is a good posting (LOL)
Cheers, Becky
Kenpo told me it's an average post, so it's likely one of the best on the forum.
where i come from 170 is about 2000 they cam attack and defend consistently well and don't give anything away cheaply when you get to 190 200 grade then it's a stedp up in class again so 2000 is bigining of stong