I'm not convinced Lichess ratings are as inflated as people say compared to chess.com (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by PonderingPotato@discuss.tchncs.de to c/chess@lemmy.ml

2 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I have a Chess.com account where my rating is 1500 in all modes.

I've switched to Lichess a few months ago, and been mostly playing Bullet 2 + 1. Based on what I've read, I would expect my rating to be around 1800, but despite (I believe) playing at a similar level, my rating is hovering around 1550.

It could just be me, maybe I was lucky on Chess.com to get that rating, but it seems everyone says your rating on Lichess should be around 200-300 more than on Chess.com, is that your experience as well? Has it maybe changed a bit?

top 2 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

IIRC they use slightly different rating systems (Glicko-1 vs Glicko 2), so it's not really meaningful to compare the absolute values, only your rating relative to another player.

If you look around you can find some good comparisons of the rating distributions using known players with accounts on both sites.

[-] BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I'm 1507 on chess.com and just north of 1700 on Lichess, so in my case the common wisdom holds.

this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2025

4 points (100.0% liked)

Chess

2305 readers

12 users here now

Play chess on-line

FIDE Rankings

September 2023

#	Player	Country	Elo
1	Magnus Carlsen	🇳🇴	2839
2	Fabiano Caruana	🇺🇸	2786
3	Hikaru Nakamura	🇺🇸	2780
4	Ding Liren 🏆	🇨🇳	2780
5	Alireza Firouzja	🇫🇷	2777
6	Ian Nepomniachtchi	🇷🇺	2771
7	Anish Giri	🇳🇱	2760
8	Gukesh D	🇮🇳	2758
9	Viswanathan Anand	🇮🇳	2754
10	Wesley So	🇺🇸	2753

Tournaments

Speed Chess Championship 2023

September 4 - September 22

Check also

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

jalda@sopuli.xyz

jalda@kbin.social