2025-08-22
40% of chess players on chess.com are rated below 480???
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FQH-GGQPyy8
The ratings used to be different. I remember having a conversation with a Class A friend 35 yeas ago, who said that anything below 1200 was meaningless, because he reasoned how can you be worse than bad?
However, there were a great many more children who participated in tournaments after that. This brought the average down by a huge amount. Kids who had no real concept of how to play chess properly were competing for rating points.
I've talked to adults who have very low ratings on chess.com, like in the 400 to 500 range. If they are able to find people on their level to play chess with, then more power to them.
It seems like Magnus was being generous. I see a rating of 800 as a base level competency. It is really not hard to get 1200 or 1300. You just have to not make simple mistakes. Any form of regular tactics study would get a person to that level.
2025-08-17
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