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Thank you for the replies but I cannot find an answer in the "rating" function and I realise the system is different but is there a way of equating my Chess.com rating to a FIDE rating?
Actually, no. Because they are separete systems, they have NOTHING in common exept that they're using the elo system (right?).
But I can guess that if you're 2000 here in 1.5 hours games you can perform at atleast 1700. Wild guesses though.
@Rasparovov: Chess.com uses the Glicko rating system, not the Elo rating system.
@OP: People try to make rough comparisons between Chess.com and FIDE, as well as other organizations. Such comparisons are unreliable and simply cannot be done, because the pool of players is different.
Nevertheless, some people find Chess.com's rating system to be very approximately what one might find in USCF and FIDE. Specifically, many members here find that a player rated above 2000 here is an "expert" of sorts (and I use the term very loosely), or at least a different level of player is perceived by some; whereas the rating range of 2000-2199 is "expert" in USCF as well.
Some say that ratings on Chess.com are "inflated," or higher than the federations. However, I find that titled players tend to have lower ratings on Chess.com than they do in their respective organizations. For example, I have seen FMs rated as low as 1700-1750 in Online Chess; I truly doubt that they would be rated similarly in FIDE.
@Rasparovov: Chess.com uses the Glicko rating system, not the Elo rating system.
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There is no direct relationship, as has been pointed out already -- but Chess.com ratings are arrived at in a way quite similar to the way they are arrived at by FIDE, USCF and other chess organizations. So a 1500 rating at chess.com means something similar to what a 1500 FIDE rating means.
The question is how do the ratings compare. Back in the late 80s I remember being told that a 1500 FIDE rating was stronger than a 1500 USCF -- probably 1500 FIDE was equal to about a 1600 USCF in terms of chess strength. I don't know if that's still true (or it was really true back then). Everyone has an opinion about Chess.com ratings -- and there are several ratings... one for correspondence chess and then there are separate ratings for each online timed category: lightning, blitz, rapid, standard. (Did I forget anything?)
Here's my opinion about the rating strengths... all chess.com ratings USED TO BE inflated... that is, an 1800 chess.com rating, in any category, would actually play dramatically weaker than a FIDE or USCF player of the same rating. The discrepancy was most obvious in the correspondence chess where 1800 typically meant a chess quailtiy closer to 1400 USCF at one time. I believe this has been steadily normalizing in all categories -- which only makes sense as the player pool grows. (The bigger the pool the better the statistics, in general, and chess ratings are a kind of statistic.) and chess.com ratings grow ever closer to FIDE ratings. I have absolutely no objective data to back this up, however. It is a purely subjective evaluation on my part. Although I think it is clear that the online blitz ratings are definitely no longer inflated! If anything they are deflated.
That is a chess.com 1700 online blitz player is typically a much stronger player than someone with a USCF 1700 standard rating or a 1700 FIDE rating. One will see players with USCF or FIDE standard chess ratings of 2000+, with chess.com blitz ratings in the 1700s.
*I see that as I was writing this the poster above me made many of the same points.*
@Rasparovov: Chess.com uses the Glicko rating system, not the Elo rating system.
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The glicko system is a tweak to the Elo, not a whole separate thing... as systems the ratings are very much comparable -- if I understand it correctly glicko weights recent games more than games played earlier.
I would like to know if the ratings here have a relationship to the FIDE system.