Answers.Body: <p>The only way to get an accurate estimate of your Elo strength is to actually get an Elo rating. </p>
  
  <p>If you accuracy isn't that important you could take <a href="http://www.elometer.net" rel="nofollow">a test like this</a>. There are surely others somewhere. For example in some books (unfortunately I only know <a href="http://www.amazon.de/Lehr--%C3%9Cbungs--Testbuch-Schachkombinationen-Colditz/dp/3283003025/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8" rel="nofollow">a non-English example</a>).</p>
  
  <p>Concerning the chess.com rating: In my experience your Elo should be a bit higher than your chess.com rating, but tournament games and internet blitz can be very different.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Hmm, jetzt wo ich mir Deinen Namen noch mal anschaue … ;-) Das Buch ist auf jeden Fall eine sehr gute Einführung in die Taktik und wenn ich mich richtig erinnere gibt es am Ende einen Test der einen irgendwo zwischen 0 und 2840 Elo einordnet.
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Answers.Body: <p>There was one psychologists site studying such things who had a sample test that would estimate your rating.  While you really need to play enough games OTB and get a real FIDE rating you could use that site to estimate your rating.</p>
  
  <p>Alternatively you could play at some online sites and subtract a few hundred points to roughly estimate your FIDE rating.</p>
  
  <p>NOTE that the rating depends a lot on the time control!</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>This is going to sound tautological, but Elo is inherently a measure of how you do in tournaments. Your question is sort of like asking "I don't run, how can I determine how fast I can run a mile?" We could guess from how generally fit you look, but in reality you just have to go run a mile to find out.</p>
  
  <p>There are correlations between various online ratings and a FIDE rating, but they're just correlations; the context of how you play online is very different from playing live (for one thing, online games are usually much faster).</p>
  
  <p>I can tell you that the first time you play in a live tournament you will likely perform 100-200 points worse than you might expect from such a correlation, just because you're not used to the environment of a face-to-face tournament (moving real pieces, using a clock, writing down your moves, having your opponent right there in front of you, being distracted by other games). Luckily it does not take long to settle in.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I don't play club chess or tournaments, how can I determine my ELO strength? 
  I often play on chess.com how well does it compare to the FIDE system? (I am aware that one cannot account for people cheating online)</p>
  
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Title: Determine ELO strength without playing in FIDE tournaments
ThreadText: # Determine ELO strength without playing in FIDE tournaments
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-08-21)
  
  I don't play club chess or tournaments, how can I determine my ELO strength?
  I often play on chess.com how well does it compare to the FIDE system? (I am aware that one cannot account for people cheating online)
  
  **Tags:** rating, elo
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Ratings from different systems cannot be directly compared.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_4 on 2015-08-22. Score: 8 | Accepted answer
  
  This is going to sound tautological, but Elo is inherently a measure of how you do in tournaments. Your question is sort of like asking "I don't run, how can I determine how fast I can run a mile?" We could guess from how generally fit you look, but in reality you just have to go run a mile to find out.
  
  There are correlations between various online ratings and a FIDE rating, but they're just correlations; the context of how you play online is very different from playing live (for one thing, online games are usually much faster).
  
  I can tell you that the first time you play in a live tournament you will likely perform 100-200 points worse than you might expect from such a correlation, just because you're not used to the environment of a face-to-face tournament (moving real pieces, using a clock, writing down your moves, having your opponent right there in front of you, being distracted by other games). Luckily it does not take long to settle in.
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-08-21. Score: 4
  
  The only way to get an accurate estimate of your Elo strength is to actually get an Elo rating.
  
  If you accuracy isn't that important you could take [a test like this](http://www.elometer.net). There are surely others somewhere. For example in some books (unfortunately I only know [a non-English example](http://www.amazon.de/Lehr--%C3%9Cbungs--Testbuch-Schachkombinationen-Colditz/dp/3283003025/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8)).
  
  Concerning the chess.com rating: In my experience your Elo should be a bit higher than your chess.com rating, but tournament games and internet blitz can be very different.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: kein Problem, gut wenn man Deutsch kann ;-)  
  > **username_2**: Hmm, jetzt wo ich mir Deinen Namen noch mal anschaue … ;-) Das Buch ist auf jeden Fall eine sehr gute Einführung in die Taktik und wenn ich mich richtig erinnere gibt es am Ende einen Test der einen irgendwo zwischen 0 und 2840 Elo einordnet.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_3 on 2019-12-28. Score: -1
  
  There was one psychologists site studying such things who had a sample test that would estimate your rating. While you really need to play enough games OTB and get a real FIDE rating you could use that site to estimate your rating.
  
  Alternatively you could play at some online sites and subtract a few hundred points to roughly estimate your FIDE rating.
  
  NOTE that the rating depends a lot on the time control!
  
  
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