What was your rating?

What was your chess rating when you were a beginner? I just worry that mine will fall so low people wont want to play me at some point.

I remember when I was first starting out in internet chess around 12 years ago my rating at yahoo chess was in the 1200's.then after a few games stopped playing for some reason up until 2008.

but you're fine really....there are plenty of people at your level here so don't worry about that...it's not low enough

when I first started off, I was around 1100 in yahoo chess, and 1000 in uscf* (correction, not fide)

Neat to see similar numbers.  I was ~1100 on yahoo! chess too.

If I remember it's rare to see someone below 1000 on yahoo, so compared to chess.com that may be something like a rating of 800 here.  So I'd say you're right where you should be brisket.

FIDE's bottom rating is currently 1400. It used to be 2000, they lowered it over the past decade or so. FIDE ratings of 1000 have never existed.

so if ur below 1400 strength you can't have a FIDE rating?how does that work?

Exactally like it sounds

There are ton of little requirements to get a FIDE rating, you can't just show up to a tourney get have one guaranteed.  Things like you have to win so many games against players who currently have FIDE ratings and they can't all be from the same area and additional rules of time control (can't be a 1 day tournament either if I remember).

An organizer would know the specifics.  All this to say,  you don't get a FIDE rating just because you played in a FIDE tournament.

oh ok.....that clears it up sounds a bit too strict though...especially that bit about players from the same area.

 it's gone down to 1200 now :-) regarding post 8 the only stipulation about players not all being from the ame federation (not area exactly) is for norms for titles to prevent what happened in the past with certain countries making sure that they got plenty of titled players by organising their own tournaments with no outsiders

FIDE 2159 back in 1999.

i was down i 800s too, but it soon creeps up once you start getting it. you could be 1600 next week. not much differance really

I had not long started out when I went to Amsterdam to the Gambit chess cafe and played an old guy there.  He asked me my rating and I said 1355 or something like that and he replied "Is not possible to have rating so low."  He was meaning FIDE rating while I was using Scottish one but the words stuck with me as funny over the years.

Currently the floor is 1200.  http://www.fide.com/component/handbook/?id=65&view=article

"0.6 Rating floor referred to in the following text is the minimum rating to be published, from 1.7.2009 the floor will be 1200."

But soon the floor will be 1000.

http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/5314-2nd-quarter-fide-presidential-board-meeting-at-al-ain-united-arab-emirates.html

"The Board decided to implement the recommendation of the Qualification Chairman and Rating Administrator to lower the rating floor to 1000 and produce the rating list on a monthly basis. It was agreed that this should come into effect from July 1st 2012."

At the end of my first OTB tournament, my USCF rating was in the 300s.  I had a really hard time with clocks and scoresheets.

My first uscf was 1428 I think and my yahoo was around 1600 .

1456 for uscf.

on chess.com it was somewhere 900 when i started  now its 1034 ( I don't play a lot of rated games mostly unrated )

My rating after my first USCF tournament was 1228. But I was a freshman in high school then. I imagine as a "beginner" in grade school I was around 300.

When I was born I had a rating of 0.

 That's interesting, Sammy Reshevsky was 1857 at birth, Fischer was 2150.