What is "God's rating"?

In other words, what is the maximum rating possible exploring the full capacity of the game called chess? What is the limit?

Well, part of the problem with the rating is that you get less rating the higher above you are then your opponent. This is why the gap Fischer had between the second ranked player was so impressive. Eventually, if your say a 3500 playing against 2700, your not going to be getting much rating

Rating is kinda relative to performance of your opponents .... so you can find a formula of ELO rating and if you 800 points above your opponent you can get 0 for the win. So answering your question it is impossible to get more than 800 points above of your best revival....

It totally depends on the player pool. Ratings are relative. If God chose to play FIDE rated games against humans, she'd only play sub 3000 players. After a while he'd no longer be able to gain rating points, because the rating diff would be too large. But if you add Satan, who is supposedly also quite strong, they could also play each other and the situation would be totally different.

Yes, you can get 0 rating points from a win. Happened to me here on this site.

EDIT: I think USCF used to give at least one point, but they dropped the rule because it messed up the system.

If i remember correctly I believe its 4000 Elo.

It's exactly how the math works. This site uses Glicko2, which is considered superior to ELO. Guaranteed rating points mess up the system, because, well you gave the example yourself.

@bbmaxwell, as you said, no mathematician would do that. So, since Glicko2 was created by serious mathematicians, I'm quite confident.

@bbmaxwell, but you raised the interesting question what would happen if the system didn't use rounding and an infinite amount of games were played. I'm not sure, but my intuition still leans towards the existence of a limes superior.

Then I trust you on that. So in this case, no matter what the rating pool is, there is no limit to God's rating.

I'd rather trust you. Otherwise I might have to do it and I switched from math to software development 30 years ago

Steinitz was rated 2826 according to chessmetrics. Steinitz defeated God, even after giving pawn and move odds. This is God’s only known game, thus His rating is 2426.

My idea behind this topic is to ask how strong someone/something can be. I'm not considering technical limitations here. Just wondering what is the deepest bottom of chess. If the game of chess could play chess ( like metachess ) what would it be its max.

Thanks for pointing out that elo rating is relative. I was thinking about something absolute.

God's rating doesn't exist

Well, if then it depends on the rating system that you have to create for this purpose. Of course we'd have to assume that God knows all the (finitely many) possible chess games and would always play perfectly. But since it's not a game with infinitely many possibilities, I'd assume that a sane rating system would assign a finite rating even to a perfect player.

Definitely a proposed solution.

Of, someone showed up to do the calculations. That's very good, because I admit that I specialized in homological algebra, algebraic geometry and mathematical logic. I hate statistics.

With respect to the OP, I think we should assume a perfect player knowing every possible game. As you said before: no drawing chances for Carlsen.

I'm wondering how far can technology go...can quantum computers solve chess in some distant future.

In the tournament of supernatural beings who read your mind, God didn't do that well. Osiris bested him with a frisky variation of the Catalan, Zeus played a weakish Greco to a draw, and Santa Claus ended up winning top prize, mostly on the strength of his Icelandic variation of the Scandy.