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Before you can answer 'Am I good?', surely you need to know what 'good' means? How do you define or quantify what good at chess means?

Before you can answer 'Am I good?', surely you need to know what 'good' means? How do you define or quantify what good at chess means?

@MrPushwood
Good point. I can get to 1950 in rapid , sometimes over 2k if i focus on rating but I often find myself saying the same thing to myself. It's very subjective.
I wish lichess would give us some better statistics for this. Of course it says right on your profile, better than xx% of players, but I don't really feel that holds much water if they include people that made an account and just played 20 games. They should have that same statistic for people that played say at least 1000 games. That would be very meaningful. In fact now that I think about this I think this is worth putting in a post on lichess feedback which I'll do now.

@MrPushwood Good point. I can get to 1950 in rapid , sometimes over 2k if i focus on rating but I often find myself saying the same thing to myself. It's very subjective. I wish lichess would give us some better statistics for this. Of course it says right on your profile, better than xx% of players, but I don't really feel that holds much water if they include people that made an account and just played 20 games. They should have that same statistic for people that played say at least 1000 games. That would be very meaningful. In fact now that I think about this I think this is worth putting in a post on lichess feedback which I'll do now.

As CM Sargo0n once said "good chess player = your rating + 200 points"
-Elsk

As CM Sargo0n once said "good chess player = your rating + 200 points" -Elsk

That's putting it very well.

That's putting it very well.

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