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is chess.com rating roughly equal to an elo/fide rating?

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twhite0622
If so, which one, and does it count to get an actual rating at a 1st live tournament?
ChessScience76

Yes, chess.com elo is supposed to resemble a fide elo.  It uses elo just like fide.  I don't know what your question exactly means though in the description.

 

The chess.com uses Glicko elo, which apparently is just elo with an added way to calculate how accurate the elo is based on how many games you've played.

twhite0622

Well I mean would a 1400 rated player here also be about 1400 fide rating or uscf rating or not so much because chess.com is its own thing?

ChessScience76

A chess.com player would likely be a bit lower elo than 1400 fide.  Playing otb can be very different and time controls might also be different.  Of course you can always find whatever time control you want but most, at least in my experience, are 15 min +.  Most chess.com players play faster games, to be honest.

notmtwain
twhite0622 wrote:

Well I mean would a 1400 rated player here also be about 1400 fide rating or uscf rating or not so much because chess.com is its own thing?

https://www.chess.com/blog/smarterchess/chess-rating-comparison-2016

This comparison was pretty well done.

twhite0622
Thanks - exactly what I was looking for!
Nino_98

Honestly, there's no good way of knowing what FIDE/USCF rating you would have because it's a completely different pool of players.

WhereDoesTheHorseGo
How was this comparison list put together? How did it arrive at its thesis? Details, please. Thank you.
gambitattax

twhite0622 wrote:

If so, which one, and does it count to get an actual rating at a 1st live tournament?

Can't compare chess.com to FIDE. The real OTB Tournaments are much tougher than playing online here.

WalangAlam

Well I think chess.com's blitz players pool are tougher, the other two ratings there comes close to my rating.

garpus

i think that blitz games are not the same sport that long games it s like saying that sprint is not the same sport than marathon just like long games are not the same sport than correspondence games

i knew a fide master and a champion on correspondence games who was not so great only 1600 elo over the board

and i think that online blitz games are not the same sport than over the board blitz games it s like saying that apartment bike is not the same sport than bike on the road

i know that it s a little bit cliché but i think that you can t compare things that are not the same

Pat_VS

Who as 3000 and more in fide elo ?!

And in the middle (1600-1800) the chess.com elo looks be harder.

kosevic

I don't think it's completely true, but in some point it can serve as approximately true

notmtwain

Smarterchess updated his study last year:

 

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/can-chess-com-ratings-represent-otb

 

 

 

Vincidroid

Yes, they're both numbers.

aviation18

Yes it is

aviation18
Halloween15 wrote:

so someone who is 1400 on chess.com would be roughly 1300  on fide rating?

 

I guess

Santoy

KnightChecked

Chess.com ratings seem to be around 200 to 300 points higher than what one's FIDE rating would be.

So 2000 on chess.com would likely be around 1700-1800 FIDE.

Though, it varies from player to player.

felipeffv

the graph it is very easy to analyze...at low level in chess.com you can find users with medium level playing very random without compromise....they can disconect for whatever reason...but in high levels are less people with good level that play radomly.