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 Ranking System Explained: What is a Chess Ranking?

Chess Rankings & Leaderboards - Chess Terms

Chess: Magnus Carlsen targets all-time rating record of 2900 at Wijk aan Zee, Magnus Carlsen

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?

CSCA Informant – Observations about Chess Rating Distribution and Progression – Chess Academy of Denver

Chess Ratings Explained – Chess Armory

Chess Ranking System Explained: What is a Chess Ranking?

A Chess Improvement Guide Based On Your Rating (Under 2000 ELO)

Solved Chess Ratings. Arpad Elo was a physics professor at

Chess Ratings: A Deep Dive