What is considered a decent rating in chess?

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Online such as here rating from 1500 is decent starting point, over the board play between 1700-1800 you have made a decent cut!!

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I think 1500 is when people are annoyingly decent to play against
Avatar of RogerHolly
ANY rating is a decent rating, if you’re playing and getting enjoyment from the game.
Avatar of Ziryab

A decent rating is 200 higher than my peak.

Avatar of crotonninja1isagm

Decent is probably 1600 or 1700

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Sturm_Gambit wrote:
chesssblackbelt wrote:

It depends what rating you are

To Magnus, decent is a GM

To me, it's any player who's fide rated

Thanks I have a FIDE Rating of 850.

1400 is the minimum fide rating. Which is like 1800 on cc

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chesssblackbelt wrote:
Sturm_Gambit wrote:
chesssblackbelt wrote:

It depends what rating you are

To Magnus, decent is a GM

To me, it's any player who's fide rated

Thanks I have a FIDE Rating of 850.

1400 is the minimum fide rating. Which is like 1800 on cc

Lowest possible **FIDE** rating=1000

Considering I am going down and down and plateaued, I am somewhere around ~850 but considered unrated by FIDE. However, this is just an approximation anyway.

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Sturm_Gambit wrote:
chesssblackbelt wrote:
Sturm_Gambit wrote:
chesssblackbelt wrote:

It depends what rating you are

To Magnus, decent is a GM

To me, it's any player who's fide rated

Thanks I have a FIDE Rating of 850.

1400 is the minimum fide rating. Which is like 1800 on cc

Lowest possible **FIDE** rating=1000

Considering I am going down and down and plateaued, I am somewhere around ~850 but considered unrated by FIDE. However, this is just an approximation anyway.

Which world are you living in. From March 2024, the bare minimum of FIDE rating is 1400. All players below 2000 were given a rating boost for making them all above 1400.

The formulas was:

[2000-(Your Rating)]*0.4 + Your Rating = New Rating

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TotalChessWisdom wrote:
Sturm_Gambit wrote:
chesssblackbelt wrote:
Sturm_Gambit wrote:
chesssblackbelt wrote:

It depends what rating you are

To Magnus, decent is a GM

To me, it's any player who's fide rated

Thanks I have a FIDE Rating of 850.

1400 is the minimum fide rating. Which is like 1800 on cc

Lowest possible **FIDE** rating=1000

Considering I am going down and down and plateaued, I am somewhere around ~850 but considered unrated by FIDE. However, this is just an approximation anyway.

Which world are you living in. From March 2024, the bare minimum of FIDE rating is 1400. All players below 2000 were given a rating boost for making them all above 1400.

The formulas was:

[2000-(Your Rating)]*0.4 + Your Rating = New Rating

Oh yeah, I haven't seen my FIDE account since it was born LOL.

So, [2000-(850)]*0.4 + 850

= 1150*0.4 + 850

= 460 + 850

= 1310 (JUST AN ESTIMATE, IT IS STILL UNRATED)

Avatar of TotalChessWisdom

Bro, I know that your FIDE rating is 1069 (February 2024) . So, you'll now be 1443 inactive.

Avatar of Sturm_Gambit

Also, to prove, my FIDE ID is 429064740.

Avatar of TotalChessWisdom

So, you were never FIDE rated! Your profile misled me. Check mine also:

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/88145557

I'm 1460

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TotalChessWisdom wrote:

So, you were never FIDE rated! Your profile misled me. Check mine also:

https://ratings.fide.com/profile/88145557

I'm 1460

Bro how you so good? Proved I'm bad at chess. Damn bad. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Avatar of Swarajjihero

Bro my fide rating is 1469 and im fide rated player so i won that touraments and i won that prizes and won that a medals and trophy and awards so good lucky

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I try not to underestimate 1400 fide players because they can give me tough games. They never fall for my tricks and I usually end up winning just because they make passive moves a lot losing tempo

Avatar of RealFattRen

1600 if nice

Avatar of MrChatty

Chess.com has rated me as 1500+ here but I am trash at chess with near zero "understanding of the game"

Avatar of Deadmanparty

Depends on how you define decent. Being able to win a pick up game against a random person walking down the street...300.

Decent means you can go to a generic chess club and stand a chance of winning a game or two...1200

Avatar of ESP-918

1200-1400 chess.com blitz is decent, you will win most of your casual friends and strangers with ease.

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I think even a 500 could win against nearly all strangers

At your rating you could probably walk in any direction for a day straight without seeing anyone better than you at chess