when are you considered a intermediary player?
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i started playing in July and now I'm around 1.4k, am I a intermediary player or a beginner? I'm not sure if chess.com rating is relevant, so I consider myself as a beginner, I dunno
llama_l wrote:
Joined 5 days ago, and only 11 games, that makes it hard to say.
Also there are no definite boundaries. Everyone has a different idea of what beginner and intermediate means.
To make it even more complicated, ratings aren't constant across time controls or websites. In other words not only is FIDE not the same as chess.com, but chess.com rapid is not the same as chess.com blitz... and chess.com blitz is not the same as lichess blitz.
Qualitatively I'd say beginners still have trouble seeing where the pieces can move... I don't mean in terms of blunders, I mean in terms of effort. If it's hard for them to calculate multiple variations with 1 or 2 moves each, then they're a beginner.
Intermediate I'd expect to know the basics of each area. Forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks for tactics. Outposts, good/bad bishop, long lines, and safe king for positional, and so on. If I can see this from their moves I'd say they're intermediate.
Do you mean that's hard to say if I'm a beginner or to say if the rating is right?
Oct 9, 2023
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Intermediary chess player = not a beginner but also no so good as to be able to win or save draws on a reliable basis.
DrSpudnik wrote:
Intermediary chess player = not a beginner but also no so good as to be able to win or save draws on a reliable basis.
thanks for the explanation
Puzzleslolz님이 썼습니다:
DrSpudnik wrote:
Intermediary chess player = not a beginner but also no so good as to be able to win or save draws on a reliable basis.
should i really listen to someone who has been on this site for 14 years and is only 1800?
.....LMAO
I became curious as to what an 1800 Elo on this website in Rapid chess would be (as DrSpudnik has an Elo of 1889 in rapid).
I just saw that a guy with a Rapid Elo of 1776 has a site wide grade of being in the 99.7th percentile..!
I think one can be called a beginner if he only played a short time. So you can be a beginner but your skill level is already intermediate. I would say 1400 is not beginner level.
Someone might have been playing for 10 years but is not a very good player. But we wouldn't call him a beginner because he isn't. We might say he can play chess at beginner level.
Puzzleslolz wrote:
DrSpudnik wrote:
Intermediary chess player = not a beginner but also no so good as to be able to win or save draws on a reliable basis.
should i really listen to someone who has been on this site for 14 years and is only 1800?
.....LMAO
Yes dude, you should. Most people wont play chess for 14 years and most people won't reach 1.8k, there are around only 107k out of 61,359,298 players with 1.8k+ on chess.com, without discounting cheaters or whatever. So the fellow obviously knows better than us
Optimissed wrote:
In a nutshell, an intermediate player is in between weak and strong.
It isn't intermediary. An intermediary is a person who facilitates negotiations, so that's completely the wrong word.
thanks for the explanation and for the correction lol, sometimes i get really close to kill english
Oct 10, 2023
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llama_l wrote:
Puzzleslolz wrote:
Doesn’t matter, he’s been on this site for over a decade so he should be 2k+
Not everyone on this site is 14 years old.
Yes, it's called getting old and having intermittent bad health. If you go back a few months, I was in the upper 1900s. If you look at the all-time stats, I've popped over 2000 a bunch of times, maxing out at 2155. But that is irrelevant to any discussion. The value of any statement is in how close it is to reality, not something related to the status of the speaker.
Clowns like puzzlenut come and go, but they make sure they insult and irritate along the way so they can score enough troll cred to be remembered as a true pest.
Beginner - up to 1200
Intermediate 1200 - 1800
Advanced - 1800 - 2400
Expert 2400+
