Blitz - Live Chess Ratings (2024)

FAQs

What is the average rating on blitz chess com? ›

The average blitz rating on chess.com is below 1000. A 1300 is in the upper 20%-- which is NOT normal. This means that if your rating sucks on chess.com-- that is normal.

900-1000 is okay. Yet it's still considered amateur. It's about the 40-50 percentile of players.

The average blitz rating on Chess.com is 645. If you've broken 700, congratulations! You're in the top half of all online chess players in the world! You are better at chess than many millions of possible opponents!

A rating between 800 and 1200 is generally considered a good starting point for novice players. This range indicates that they have a grasp of the fundamental principles and can play competently against other beginners.

You're basically a beginner. A 600 rating is normal for someone who's had a little experience but is otherwise completely new. A real beginner rating is about 250. 650 shows significant progress beyond that.

1500 on chess.com is indeed a good rating. Your USCF rating would be in the range of 1300 -1700 depends on how you play in the tournaments. I had a blitz rating of 1300 and when I played my first USCF tournament ended up the USCF tournament with a rating of 1380 so yes the chess.com is fairly accurate.

1000 rating is a great first step though! That is already better than the average (50 percent of chess players). Roughly 1500 chess.com rating is something like better than 90-95% of all players.

A rating of 4,000 would be considered unrealistic as chess rating system has its upper limit, also considering the fact that human's cognitive abilities have limits and it's unlikely that a person could surpass them.

It is a normal thing: as in classical we are determined to play chess with patience and play the best, in rapid we are determined to play smoothly with much presence of mind, in bullet we are determined to play as fast as we can, but we are stuck in blitz between two minds whether to play good chess slowly or ...

How close is the chess.com rating to FIDE? ›

First, all three chess.com live rating means are lower than the FIDE ratings; thus, on average, chess.com live players are underrated by 100-150 points. On the other had, online ratings are higher than fide ratings; so, on average, chess.com online players are overrated by 50 points.

Elo ratings are based on the results of games and ratings of opponents played. The Elo rating system ranges from 1000 Elo (a complete novice) to 2800 Elo and beyond for the strongest players of all time.

On Wednesday, Carlsen achieved the all-time-high blitz rating of 3340, four points higher than Nakamura's record.

Hikaru, right now, is 11th in the classical rankings but, at blitz, he's number two in the world. Why? Because he's really, really good at the rapid pattern recognition that's necessary for blitz and he's not quite as good at the complex calculation that's necessary for classical.

How good you are in chess if your rating is 1200 on chess.com? In terms of distribution of rating on chess.com(mainly in the blitz category ) . a person who is rated 1200 is a little above a beginner level who has basic knowledge of principles in chess(control the center, get your king castled, basic tactics etc.).

1500 is like 95%. You would be better then 95% of all chess players here. Given how strong all the players are here that's pretty good even if you have played many yrs.

I'm in the same boat (2100 blitz) and our percentile here is definitely inflated due to the casual players. If you go to any random club or tournament, we wont be in the top 0.5%, we'll be in the top 25% most likely. 2000 chess blitz is really impressive. Its like around 1750-1850 USCF.

1200-1500 : beginner player. 1500-1800 : good player. 1800-2200 : expert player. 2200-2500 : master player. above 2500: world champion.