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Re:An Indian village addicted to chess by MileyCyrax on Thursday May 18, 2017 @06:54PM (#14371735)
What rating would you need for something like that?
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Re:An Indian village addicted to chess by cubano on Thursday May 18, 2017 @06:59PM (#14371754)
On lichess I rate about a 1740 or so.
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Re:An Indian village addicted to chess by placeybordeaux on Thursday May 18, 2017 @09:13PM (#14372361)
1740 is good!
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Re:An Indian village addicted to chess by ganeshkrishnan on Thursday May 18, 2017 @09:20PM (#14372390)
Lichess does not use standard rating system. I think it uses Glicko.

A 1740 on lichess would be around 1600 in standard ELO (which itself is not a bad rating)

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Re:An Indian village addicted to chess by PhasmaFelis on Thursday May 18, 2017 @10:08PM (#14372550)
It took me the longest time to figure out that "lichess" was not a female lich.
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Re:An Indian village addicted to chess by arikrak on Friday May 19, 2017 @08:07AM (#14374793)
It's hard to compare Lichess-rated players to e.g. FIDE or USCF rated players, since they have different populations. It's much easier to play on Lichess than in tournaments, so Lichess probably gives higher ratings. But one could get a sample of people rated on both sites to get an idea of the rating conversion.
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Re:An Indian village addicted to chess by shmageggy on Friday May 19, 2017 @04:59PM (#14379313)
Actually more like 1400-1500 USCF according to these survey results https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GcVG_slcTUJfi0sQMeax...
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