How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating

Re:How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating by mlevental on Thursday January 10, 2019 @10:49AM (#18874662)

sorry don't know much about lichess but i'm curious how much of an ELO bump does this correspond to?

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Re:How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating by cepth on Thursday January 10, 2019 @10:56AM (#18874738)

This is a pretty substantial achievement, if you look at an estimated percentile breakdown: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/54c1nv/player_rating....

FWIW, I’ve found that on Lichess I’m rated at least 100 points higher than what I would be on Chess.com (the most popular chess site), and maybe 150 points higher than what I’m rated by the US chess federation, which mainly rates live, not online, games.

A player with a rating of 2000 by the US federation would be called an “expert”, just below the 2200 rating that earns you the title of “master”.

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Re:How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating by trizzle21 on Thursday January 10, 2019 @10:53AM (#18874702)

Elo (it's a name, not an abbreviation) refers to a certain calculation method of rating. Lichess uses a glicko2 rating system.

You can't really compare ratings from across websites or groups like FIDE since the pools are so different.

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Re:How I Finally Hit 2000 on Lichess and Improved My Rating by shizcakes on Thursday January 10, 2019 @10:56AM (#18874732)

200 points in the 2000 range is reasonably significant and something to be proud of.

As a wild guess, amateurs who only generally know the pieces and play casual games infrequently are likely to be less than 1000 ELO, so it's a bit of an achievement to be in the 1800+ range.

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