Hello all,
I follow a well-known IM (John Bartholomew) on YouTube and in one of his recent videos he talks about his belief that Lichess ratings are inflated. I had never considered this and believed that my online rating would be similar to what my rating would be OTB.
My question is, with a consistent ~1600 standard rating, do you have any input on what my rating would be OTB? I am thinking of entering some OTB chess tournaments for the first time and would like to know where I stand.
Thanks!
-SkinnyMacK
Are u sure that you really want to know it? The pony farm is here .
(Edit: admittedly I am talking of blitz, regarding other ratings I am not sure, sry!)
Do a search on the Q&A and forums and you will find hours of discussion on inflation
To answer your question, Lichess uses a different rating system than whatever OTB rating you are talking about, and the pool of players is also different so nobody can tell you
only one way to find out SkinnyMack, sign up for a otb tournament!
We all have horrible results in our first tournaments, but the memories are great.
My OTB is about 1600 so...
My otb is low its 1129 lol. Though I have played in only a couple otb tournaments. So it is pretty deflated. I think (lichess rating - 350 is about what your OTB should be) Not exactly sure at all if that is even close but its just a guess.
The best answer is that there is no answer. Two different rating systems, two different player pools, apples to oranges.
Considering that my national OTB standard rating is close to 2100 (1950 FIDE Standard), my national OTB blitz rating being around 1940 (2100 FIDE Blitz) and that my blitz and standard ratings on here are well above 2200 (peak blitz = 2404, peak standard = 2245), I would have to say they are somewhat inflated. But how inflated it is varies from player to player.
I would say 1600 here is like 1200 fide rating.
I find it telling that my Online Chess Blunder rate is far higher (about 20 times higher) than my OTB blunder rate yet I am still about 100 points higher than my OTB grade.
