Questions tagged [rating]
A number that approximates a player's skill. The actual meaning of the number depends upon the issuing organization. FIDE ratings are used as the international standard for over-the-board chess.
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How does Chess.com calculate puzzle rating?
How does chess.com calculate puzzle rating? I am curious because today, I managed to gain rating while incorrectly solving a puzzle. Could someone help me out? (Also on puzzles that are already rated, ...
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Does Fide/Elo rating fade over time?
Let's imagine I am a super genius, and I get a ELO ranking of 3000. And then suddenly I stop playing chess, what happens to my rating then over time? Does it slowly decrease by NOT playing?
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For daily games, will the order of resignation affect the rating?
Say a player with a daily rating of 1500 is playing three daily games at chess.com. His opponents' ratings are 1300, 1500 and 1700 respectively. This player has losing positions in all three games but ...
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Rating decreased suddenly without reason, FIDE rating displayed wrongly in the website can anyone have such Problems
My son's rating opened when he played international match during August 2023. The rating was displayed in FIDE website on the last date of August, and it was 1156.
Later on September he played another ...
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My FIDE Initial Rating Calculation Problem
I’m working on path to get my initial FIDE rating. I joined 8 local FIDE rated tournaments with result as follow.
Rating = Result
Rapid Ratings November 2022
1083 = 0
Rapid Ratings March 2023
1142 =...
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Question on FIDE Rating List Submission
I am playing in a tournament on the 19th-20th of this month and I have a question regarding FIDE rating change for the end of the month when the new list is published.
I have done very well in some ...
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Why is Leela Chess Zero rated low on CCRL leaderboards?
Lc0 routinely makes it far in the Top Chess Engine Championship (TCEC). Latest, it defeated Komodo Dragon and nearly tied Stockfish:
Yet, we see on CCRL 40/15, Lc0 is ranked #32, 159 ELO behind ...
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Wrong ELO calculation
My daughter is a chess player. My concern is about her FIDE rating calculation in the August 2023 rating list. My daughter is Huseynova Lala Fide İD 13431781.
She played in 2 tournaments, the Paracin ...
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What is the exact difference between <1500 and >1500?
I just finished a video series on imbalances, and I was wondering, why doesn't anyone talk about this? I'm 1440 blitz on lichess and 1373 on chess.com(peak 1391).
Based on the video I just watched ...
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What are FIDE really hoping to achieve by the proposed rating changes from January 2024?
FIDE have published a new article: FIDE seeks public discussion about proposed rating changes. They say:
In the past decade, certain innovations have caused rating deflation, a concern that has been ...
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Fastest from a complete beginner to FIDE 2200?
There are pictures of Reshevsky playing simuls at a very young age -- I think there is some controversy over his exact age since the younger he was supposed to be, the more interesting. He also, even ...
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I can play the London system exclusively up to what rating?
There are many GMs who sometimes play the London system, but none of them play it exclusively. By "exclusively" I mean play it in over 99% of my games when I'm White, I mean adopting the ...
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What does FIDE rating 1800 entail?
I have a classical rating of around 2000 on Lichess. I’m aware that FIDE Classical time control is much longer than Lichess classical, so I just made it as some kind of reference point.
I’m mainly ...
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How does a player's fide rating change calculated for previous month's rating even in the next month
This is a follow-up question to this asked some time back to which I didn't quite understand the given answer.
I'll take an example
A certain player had rating 2422 on Sep 2022 according to the chart
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How are FIDE rating changes calculated for a tournament across rating periods?
If I play a FIDE-rated tournament with games from the April 30th to May 2nd, will the ELO changes be calculated using my April rating, my May rating, or April in April and May in May?
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How many games would Magnus Carlsen need to win to get an ELO of 3000?
For the purposes of this question, assume that he wins every game. Go according to his current schedule. Assume the opponents keep their current rating. If you run out of schedule, assume the rating ...
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Who are the top 10 youngest players to reach a FIDE standard rating of 2200?
In age order of achieving the rating, who are the 10 youngest players to reach 2200 standard FIDE rating? Prag and Karjakin obviously feature, but who else?
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Can my K-factor change in the middle of the month?
So, at this point, I have played 25 FIDE-rated games, and I expect to have played the full 30 games by the end of the month. According to the FIDE handbook, this means my K-factor will be reduced from ...
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Two different "accuracies"...why?
Ok, I know it's probably not impressive to most, but I'm on my way to a 1000 rating on chess.com. I'm guessing it's because of different engine strengths or something.
I recently played the following ...
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How does the average standard FIDE rating vary by age and sex?
In my answer to this question regarding requirements for female titles I quoted the mean and standard deviation for male and female ratings for standard chess in the then current FIDE rating list. ...
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Chesscom's new policy allows users to choose starting rating - Is this actually harmful to the rating system?
For simplicity, let's focus on just 1 time control.
In chess.com: I've previously reached a peak rating of 1360 under a starting rating of 1200. Then I stopped playing chess on chess.com for awhile (e....
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Farming: Is it unethical to gain rating by playing against only weaker players?
I like to win games, and I like to gain rating. I want to do this as much as possible without breaking any of the explicit rules. So a fortiori no engines or external assistance and no creating ...
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Farming: Prevent reaching a certain rating without having beaten/drawn someone of that rating (up to a point of course)?
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In other online games like csgo and valorant, it's extremely unlikely to reach a certain rank without having beaten (or drawn with) someone of that rank. I guess this is largely because you ...
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Chesscom's new policy allows users to choose starting rating - Benefits?
For simplicity, let's focus on just 1 time control.
In chess.com: I've previously reached a peak rating of 1360 under a starting rating of 1200. Then I stopped playing chess on chess.com for awhile (e....
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Why wouldn't Magnus Carlsen just farm rating points by playing weak tournaments to reach 2900 kinda like what Igors Rausis did? [duplicate]
Edit re close votes for opinion-based:
I edited question from don't/didn't to wouldn't. So now it's hypothetical for any player who happens to to have a peak rating of 2800+.
Voting this to be ...
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Could you raise your score arbitarily high by only playing against much weaker opponents?
Obviously the community would accept or acknowledge such a hack ... but mathematically would it work, or does the Elo system have something to prevent this?
My impression is that, very roughly ...
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Is your actual Elo rank integer-based or decimal-based?
I'm sure that the published rankings are reported rounded to the nearest integer!
But for the purposes of the calculation of the next rankings are the Elo ranks of GMs considered to actually be those ...
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Is it safe to read a chess book whose author's rating is 1319?
I was interested in starting to read David Rudel's book Zuke 'Em-The Colle Zukertort Revolutionized but I found that the author's rating is 1319. Should I avoid reading the book since his rating is ...
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Rated Correspondence Chess for a French Federation Member
As a member of the French chess federation, I am somewhat disheartened to see that the only way to play for an official rating is on ICCF. I do not wish to play on ICCF as I dislike the use of engines ...
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What are the + (plus) and - (minus) and ? (question mark) in Lichess near elo?
What does the +58 mean here? How does a player with higher elo get +58 for beating me with white?
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What is going on with FIDE's latest rapid and blitz ratings? Some players are more than 500 points higher in one month!
It's the last day of September and the provisional rating list for October has been released. There are some very strange ratings changes in that ratings list. Sri Lankan IM LMST De Silva played no ...
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Do you lose/gain rating if you withdraw in the middle of an OTB tournament?
Magnus just withdrew from the Sinquefield Cup. Does that affect his rating at the end of the tournament? Will he gain or lose rating based on at the time he left the tournament in the next fide update?...
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How do you find the highest-rated win of a certain player?
I'm looking for a tool where I can input a name (e.g. Hans Niemann, Levy Rozman, Eric Rosen etc.) and it will tell me the highest rated player they beat in chess (FIDE rated games). I appreciate any ...
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How rating changes happen for tournaments starting near the end of the month?
For simplicity I will try to explain my question with a real example.
The 28th Abu Dhabi International Chess Festival - Masters was held from 2022/08/17 - 2022/08/25 and therefore the ratings changes ...
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What is the difference between a good player and an average player? [closed]
I have been playing chess for a while now and have played many national level tournaments as well. But I don't know if I know clearly or not what is a difference between a good player and an average ...
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What does the "GMS" abbreviation mean here?
I was wondered what the abbrevation meant here.
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/2027895/chart
"Period RTNG GMS RAPID RTNG RAPID GMS BLITZ RTNG BLITZ GMS"
From the context it seems a ...
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Are cyborg (human+computer) players really better than the best chess engines?
I saw this rating score chart recently:
Is it true that cyborg chess players are (that much) better than the best chess programs by themselves?
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What Elo rating does The Chessmaster 2000 have?
A recent agadmator video pitted The Chessmaster (NES) against Stockfish 14 NNUE. What is more impressive to me is that this chess engine, released originally in 1986 and written by David Kittinger in ...
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Rock, paper, scissors of chess players
Chess players are typically rated by a single number, their Elo rating, which suggests that their skills are totally ordered and thus transitive. But I am wondering if there have ever been three (well-...
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Quick rating higher than normal?
I recently bought a USCF membership and played in my second tournament. The first one I played without a membership. I looked at my ratings, but noticed my quick rating was 1521, which is over 200 ...
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What games in a FIDE rated tournament does FIDE NOT rate?
In a recent FIDE rated tournament I officiated in one of the players complained to me afterwards that only 2 out of his 5 wins had been rated by FIDE. "What", he wanted to know, "was ...
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What rating point advantage does playing White equate to?
Data shows white has a non-trivial advantage (Does white have an advantage?) but has anyone ever done any analysis what ratings point advantage/handicap?
Put another way if player W plays white ...
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For what percent of the time has the official World Champion not been the world number 1?
Now that Carlsen has decided not to defend his title the next official world champion will not be the world number 1. According to this tweet from Welsh GM Nigel Davies :
I would estimate that for ...
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Estimation of "God's Elo"
Assume a 32-piece tablebase would exist. It would be a Chess God. Surely there have been estimations of its ELO?
According to the very related question, two problems arise:
a) At any point the ...
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“Rating” going up too fast [closed]
I am a chess beginner. I love playing Blitz games (especially 3+0).
I play on Lichess.org. My “Lichess blitz rating” (currently between 1040 and 1060; not giving exact value for privacy) has been ...
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Besides rating consistency and rating going up, are there other objective ways to track progress in chess performance?
For example, could one measure ACPL (Average CentiPawn Loss) over time to detect progress? Could masters look at the games of a player and determine they're playing better even if their rating isn't ...
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How Universal Ratings can become much higher than FIDE ratings
From what I understand Universal Ratings takes into account all Standard, Rapid and Blitz to give a universal rating. But I don't understand how it can be much higher than any of the FIDE ratings. For ...
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How does the Israel Chess Federation (ICF) update ratings for players who no longer play in Israel?
I just seen an interesting statement about ICF ratings:
When I moved to England and stopped playing ICF rated chess I was
curious as to what would happen to my ICF rating. It stayed in synch
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Difference between national and international rating
For extreme cases see here, but I'm interested in statistical averages.
The most skewing factor, as already mentioned there, should be underrated players, which simply haven't played against the "...
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How do I get a FIDE ID?
I’m going to play in my first tournament which have said the following: “Those who don’t have a FIDE ID have to enroll FIDE ID registration under your own federation” and I don’t understand what they ...
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