I never played bots but from what I read on the forum I think they are overrated
What is actually my elo
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All bots are basically Stockfish (or possibly some other engine), but they are programmed to blunder. Which leads to a highly unnatural playstyle, with painfully obvious blunders (to human eyes). Real players wont do these kind of errors, because they are so obvious.
For example Martin will very often find Mate in One, while a real 250 player will most of the time miss it, unless its really obvious (to the human eye).
Thats why bots prepare you very poorly for the fight against real players.
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And your actual FIDE ELO is approx 300 points lower than your chess.com rating. But thats only a very rough estimate. Honestly it seems like the chess.com rating is all over the place, compared to FIDE ELO.
I've never played OTB in a real setting, with time control etc. But I've heard that its much harder than online chess, and many previously pure online chess players perform really poorly first time OTB.
IIRC the rating system of chess.com (and lichess) was called Glicko 2. Not Elo.
Bots are easier
Mar 6, 2026
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MariasWhiteKnight wrote:
All bots are basically Stockfish (or possibly some other engine), but they are programmed to blunder. Which leads to a highly unnatural playstyle, with painfully obvious blunders (to human eyes). Real players wont do these kind of errors, because they are so obvious.
For example Martin will very often find Mate in One, while a real 250 player will most of the time miss it, unless its really obvious (to the human eye).
Thats why bots prepare you very poorly for the fight against real players.
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And your actual FIDE ELO is approx 300 points lower than your chess.com rating. But thats only a very rough estimate. Honestly it seems like the chess.com rating is all over the place, compared to FIDE ELO.
I've never played OTB in a real setting, with time control etc. But I've heard that its much harder than online chess, and many previously pure online chess players perform really poorly first time OTB.
IIRC the rating system of chess.com (and lichess) was called Glicko 2. Not Elo.
Almost ignored the whole text but thanks
Mar 6, 2026
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I think bot elo is a bit of masquerade. You get a nice Glicko rating from playing rated games on chess.com so that feedback loop is pretty close to your actual strength #.
Mar 10, 2026
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I would guess your OTB rating, if you have one, would be 100.
My OTB rating is 372 JCL (Junior Chess League) (which is pretty average but I don’t really play competitively. Maybe next year ;P)
Mar 10, 2026
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#12
All bots are like 500 points over rated to make you feel better about yourself. Your actual elo is your elo obvs
Mar 10, 2026
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#13
Also your stats say your highest ever rating in all modes was just over 400 not 800, you might have started on 800 and lost the first few games till it clocked your true highest elo
Mar 11, 2026
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#15
MAX-S8 wrote:
All bots are like 500 points over rated to make you feel better about yourself. Your actual elo is your elo obvs
so Martin's elo is actually... -250 elo?!
The bots ratings are inaccurate, if you want to figure out your level you simply have to play 50-100 rated games until your rating has stabilized and to avoid flukes
28 days ago
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medelpad wrote:
The bots ratings are inaccurate, if you want to figure out your level you simply have to play 50-100 rated games until your rating has stabilized and to avoid flukes
okay
My top elo is 800 but I can beat some of the Influencers bots like Mr Beast. So what is actually my elo?