FIDE Rating x Lichess Rating

You can't compare the 2. First of all in real life, no cheaters, or very very very few of them. Second, you're playing a smaller pool of people as opposed to taking on the world when you're online. Third you can prepare for opponents because you are likely facing the same people frequently. Your rating here could be because you choose to play weaker players so you don't lose much, or vice versa, a lower rating but playing higher strength players. So you really can't compare the 2.

@Acerb8

I have already tried going for a chess game like it's a war. Playing only when I'm at my best, and never resigning.
This is very energy consuming, and over time, it's just not worth it...

This attitude made me get like 100-200 ELO points, and if I try this same thing on lichess, I'd probably move to rating 1900.
Maybe it's worth here, just 1 time, to set a record in your profile, best score: 1900

But you will have to reduce it again if you wanna play on tournaments, and have fun, which is the most important thing. We don't earn money by playing at our level, so let's be happy in the game :)

LICHESS rating is usually +100 to +500 i think
all those rated 2200 lichess 1000 fide are either trying to ruin my dreams or haven't played FIDE rated tournament in a while

@Akarsh_2010 said in #23:
> LICHESS rating is usually +100 to +500 i think
> all those rated 2200 lichess 1000 fide are either trying to ruin my dreams or haven't played FIDE rated tournament in a while
Yep what u told also has a point.

I haven't played any fide tourneys since 5 months and looking 5 months back i was only an 1800

@DavidDoesChess

Great website - thanks! This exactly answers the question!

Often we use wrong names for the ratings... Even the gothamchess series guessTheElo is wrong as he analyses games on chess com which uses glicko1, lichess uses glicko2. I think guessTheGlicko might be a better name! (its got alliteration also)

I read an article explaining that the glicko 2 rating system is the best in this function of measuring the rating of chess players and also serves to measure the rating in other sports as well.

@DavidDoesChess I like what you did, but it might be pretty misleading. Can you add something to help the stat noobs understand what deviation means?

Let's say a 2230 rated blitz player on lichess = DrHack : Your website says is rated 1844 Fide with 171 point deviation. So I'm 68% confident I'd find myself in a range of 1673 to 2015 FIDE. That's not extremely confident.. If you add a second deviation to it, then I could be 95% confident that I'd find myself in a range of 1502 - 2186 FIDE. 95% confident sounds much better.. and then I realize that that range is big enough to cover a metric ton of players that play Fide events.

Also.. according to your results, you have to be rated 2865 in lichess blitz to make FM... thats um.. top 30ish on lichess.

Some adjustment needed to not mislead people.

@DrHack You can find 2765 rated GMs here on top 200 blitz... Why would you need 2865 in lichess to make FM??

@DavidDoesChess

My deviation isn’t right.

It shows for me to too that I am an 1800, but it ain’t true

I’m only a 1100 but still have 2200 rating