Re: Chess Rating question, what does it mean?
Essentially a chess rating is supposed to signify a player's strength.
It is an approximation/estimation but is suspposed to be fairly accurate.
A young and quickly improving player with a rating of 1500 may really be of 2000 strength and his rating may be "inaccurate" but in time his strength will catch up to his rating as he wins games and inreases his rating.
The FIDE ratings for the top players in the world have increased over the past 10-20 years because of there being more strong players and more high rated players to play against. Thus these world top 10 players have more opponents to gain points from and are thus higher rated.
The online ratings you speak of are from the Internet Chess Club. It's blitz and bullet ratings have become Inflated via eeking (playing the same players or low rated players over and over again and just winning points nonstop). Also just generally over time there were some inconsistencies in the ratings formula which have caused the ratings to become inflated.
ICC now has 1-min, 5-min, and 15-min games whereupon you are placed into a ratings pool and cannot choose your opponent or color. These ratings have not become inflated.
Thank you.
Any questions regarding chess are welcome as well. Ask away.
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