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A Look at Chess Ratings
By Manolito SinguilloIn chess, a rating is a number given to a chess player indicating his or her chess playing strength. Most of the systems used to determine chess ratings are derived from the Elo rating system, named after itscreator, American physics Professor Arpad Elo.In simple terms, a rating is based on the result of a chess game. After the game, the rating of the winnerwill increase while the rating of the player who lost the game will decrease. The ratings are relativebecause the rating of one player will affect how the rating of the other player will adjust. If you defeat aplayer with a much lower rating, your rating will gain just a few points. On the other hand, if you defeata player with a much higher rating, you will earn a lot of points.For the player who lost, his or her ratings will not be affected much if a stronger player took the win butif defeated by a player with a much lower rating, then a significant decrease in rating points can beexpected. Draws affect a player’s rating in the same manner. It will increase your rating if you draw aplayer with a higher rating and vice versa.What Ratings MeanBy looking at the rating of a chess player, you can estimate how good their playing skills are. Obviously,the best chess players have the highest ratings. However, the ratings will vary depending on thefederation that issued them.Under the rating system of the United States Chess Federation, a complete novice who has just learnedhow to set up achess setor the basic moves on achess boardis likely to have a rating of 100, which is the minimum. The average player on a scholastic tournament would have a rating of about 600 whilethe average player on an adult sanctioned tournament is rated at about 1400.Really strong adult tournament players will have a rating of more than 1900 while those over 2000 areconsidered experts and those rated over 2200 are regarded as masters of the game. The best chessplayers in the world have ratings of more than 2700.How to Earn Chess RatingsA chess player can earn rating in many ways, such as through chess websites that give their own chessratings. When playing online chess, such ratings are useful to find opponents who are in your same skilllevel. There are some chess clubs that also have their own ratings.However, the above are examples of informal ratings. In the world of organized chess competitions,formal chess ratings are assigned by a nationally-recognized chess federation. A player earns theseratings by playing in federation-certified or sanctioned tournaments. When each tournament is over, thefederation that is rating the event will receive the results, process them and then update thecompetitors’ ratings.
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