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Subject: Re: FICS/USCF/FIDE ratings

Author: Todd Freitag

Date: 12:53:25 08/16/98

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On August 15, 1998 at 14:32:18, Ilya P. Kozachenko wrote:

>Does anybody know what's the relation between FICS/ICS ratings and
>standard USCF/BCF/FIDE ones ?
>If I've beaten 2200+ rated fella on FICS, have I beaten master ?

I wondered this myself, and decided to compare the FIDE and FICS Blitz ratings
of the top players on FICS.  Since blitz on the internet differs from slow OTB
chess, some players' FIDE ratings differed dramatically from their blitz
ratings.  However, the average ratings were remarkably close.  Among the top 30
humans on FICS, the average FICS rating was 2343.8, and the average FIDE
rating(using the July 1998 rating list) was 2349.333... On other servers, such
as chess.net and ICC, I can't provide exact data due to not knowing all the
players' names, but I would guess that the top players there have rather
inflated blitz ratings.  For example, at ICC, there are several 3000+ rated
blitz players, but the world's top FIDE rating is in the low 2800's.  You can
find a list of the top human players' handles and ratings at FICS by logging in
to FICS(freechess.org 5000) and using the "hbest" and "hrank" commands.  FIDE
ratings(and even FIDE titles in some cases) are withheld to protect the players'
anonymity.



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