Chess Ratings - How They Work

Like it or not, we ALL have a chess rating. You may not care at all about your rating, or you may be whining every time it goes down in the slightest. You might be someone who plays a game a year, or someone who plays 1,000 a day. Still, there is a number out there that represents how well you play chess.

Chess Ratings - Chess Terms

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Chess Ratings - Chess Terms

Chess Ratings: What Are They And How Do They Affect Me?

The distribution of the German chess rating with the best-fit normal

How I Finally Got to 2000 ELO on Chess.com, by Shachar pan, Getting Into Chess

In chess.com users have a rating. What is this? Is this connected to a wider chess rating? How can one's rating level be interpreted, and what is a passably good rating?