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Alr Alr so this seems like a flexing thread, so lemme drop some flexes. 2686 bullet and 2598 blitz I played humpy koneru and beat multiple gms and hmm what else I think im not that good, never becoming gm and the final part of the package, I think online ratings are better than fide bellow 2000

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LunarLightning wrote:

Alr Alr so this seems like a flexing thread, so lemme drop some flexes. 2686 bullet and 2598 blitz I played humpy koneru and beat multiple gms and hmm what else I think im not that good, never becoming gm and the final part of the package, I think online ratings are better than fide bellow 2000

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Nah online ratings are not better than fide below 2000 lol

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chesssblackbelt schreef:

Nah online ratings are not better than fide below 2000 lol

Someone did a statistical analysis comparing Fide and online ratings in 2013:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/fide-ratings-vs-chesscom-ratings-explored

What he found is, and I quote: "All live ELOs tend to be underrated up to the 1800-1900 point"
Above that Elo range online players get overrated compared to their Fide ratings. So it seems LunarLightning is right about that.

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Robyoman wrote:
chesssblackbelt schreef:

Nah online ratings are not better than fide below 2000 lol

Someone did a statistical analysis comparing Fide and online ratings in 2013:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/fide-ratings-vs-chesscom-ratings-explored

What he found is, and I quote: "All live ELOs tend to be underrated up to the 1800-1900 point"
Above that Elo range online players get overrated compared to their Fide ratings. So it seems LunarLightning is right about that.


2013 is a long time ago. Online ratings are much more inflated now, and I was being sarcastic lol

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Robyoman wrote:
chesssblackbelt schreef:

Nah online ratings are not better than fide below 2000 lol

Someone did a statistical analysis comparing Fide and online ratings in 2013:
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/fide-ratings-vs-chesscom-ratings-explored

What he found is, and I quote: "All live ELOs tend to be underrated up to the 1800-1900 point"
Above that Elo range online players get overrated compared to their Fide ratings. So it seems LunarLightning is right about that.

Flawed data

People online only mention their fide ratings when it's good. They also lie about their fide ratings (as you've just seen in this thread)

Common sense says online ratings are much more inflated than fide ratings

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Well, I don't play otb myself, so I can't directly compare Fide and online ratings.
But it does seem to me, that your Fide rating is more depended on location, because few people will travel to other countries just to play tournaments there. (so in one country your Fide will be overrated in another underrated)
That's why I think, online ratings are more stable/reliable than Fide ratings instead of the other way around, thoughts about that?

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Fide ratings are pretty consistent from country to country

In some places it's a bit underrated because they have national rating systems as well which messes things up

I'm from England and because not all our games are fide rated, our ratings can be a bit underrated compared to somewhere like France where all games are fide rated

But it's not a huge difference or anything

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Yeah , i fell that if u really like chess you could try, good luck

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chesssblackbelt wrote:

Nah online ratings are not better than fide below 2000 lol


Valid, but I think this is a hot take, as a lot of people would disagree. FIDE ratings are determined by games with players playing people in long, brutal classical games. Meanwhile, online games can be played from the comfort of one’s home, and most players don’t take it as seriously. OTB Chess is something completely different from online play, where can I even begin? We’ve both seen it firsthand, and both know that OTB is difficult even below 2000.