ChessyAI Chess Coach appHow to use the converter
Pick the site your rating comes from, pick the time control, and type the number. The tool shows an estimated equivalent on the other two systems and your percentile, the share of rated players in that pool with a lower rating than you. There is nothing to sign up for. If you want to check a specific player, use their current rating from their profile page.
Always compare the same time control. A Chess.com blitz rating and a Lichess rapid rating measure different things, so converting one into the other gives you a meaningless number. Rapid is usually the best choice for comparing with FIDE, because it's the closest to slow over-the-board chess.
Why there is no exact conversion
This is the honest part. Chess.com, Lichess and FIDE each run their own rating pool. A rating is not a measure of skill like a height. It's your position compared with the other players in one pool, under one set of rules. The pools differ in three ways:
- Different players. Each site has its own mix of beginners, casual players and strong club players, and that mix changes as people join and leave.
- Different starting points and formulas. Lichess uses Glicko-2 and starts new players around 1500. Chess.com uses Glicko and lets new players choose a starting level. FIDE uses the Elo system and only rates over-the-board games played in rated events.
- Different conditions. Online and over-the-board chess are not the same game in practice, and time controls are split differently on each site.
So any conversion, including ours, is a model based on players who have ratings in more than one pool. For a typical player it's usually within about 150 points, and sometimes further off. Our guide on converting a Lichess rating to Chess.com explains the differences in more detail.
Rough equivalents (rapid)
These are approximate model numbers for rapid ratings. They are a starting point, not a rule.
| Chess.com rapid | Lichess rapid (about) | FIDE (about) | Chess.com players below you (about) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 800 | 1300 | 1400 (near the FIDE floor) | 57% |
| 1000 | 1450 | 1450 | 72% |
| 1200 | 1600 | 1520 | 83% |
| 1400 | 1740 | 1600 | 91% |
| 1600 | 1870 | 1700 | 95.5% |
| 1800 | 2000 | 1800 | 98% |
| 2000 | 2120 | 1900 | 99.2% |
Two patterns stand out. Lichess numbers are higher than Chess.com numbers at the same strength, and the gap is widest at lower ratings, about 500 points at 800 and closer to about 100 at 2000. And FIDE ratings have a floor, so the lowest online ratings don't map to a lower FIDE number. A beginner who plays in a FIDE event would usually start somewhere above that floor.
Why the percentile is the fairest comparison
If you want to know whether your rating is good, the percentile is more useful than any converted number. It answers a simpler question: out of everyone rated in this pool, how many do you beat? Being ahead of about 80% of rated rapid players means roughly the same thing on any site, even if the numbers look very different.
Keep in mind who is in the pool. Online pools include a lot of people who play casually and never study. Over-the-board rating pools are mostly people who join a club or enter tournaments, so the competition is stronger at the same percentile. A good rating also depends on how long you've been playing. A 1000 after three months is a fast start. A 1000 after five years means something in your games needs to change.
Click any level in the table to read what players at that rating typically do well and badly, and how to reach the next step.
What to do with your number
Converting your rating is interesting once. Improving it is the useful part. Some free tools to start with:
- The chess weakness report analyzes your last 25 to 50 games and names your three biggest leaks.
- The free game review grades a single game move by move.
- The "Why am I stuck at my rating?" checker looks at what might be holding you at your current level.
- The tilt detector shows whether bad hours or losing streaks are costing you points.
If you've been at the same number for a while, read how to break a chess rating plateau or how to improve your chess rating fast. If your rating has been going down, why your chess rating is dropping covers the usual causes. There's more in the guides.
Chessy — AI Chess Coach app works with both Chess.com and Lichess and focuses on the part that moves every rating: it finds your recurring mistakes, turns them into puzzles and gives you a daily plan to fix them.