♟️ One Month To 2605
This is a personal blog after all and sometimes I like to talk about my hobbies, like chess or computer programming.
It’s been around 20 years or so since I’ve played Chess. I played for a month or so as a teen and enjoyed it. I learned how to play chess from Bobby Fischer’s book “Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess” many years ago.
I decided to pick it up recently after nearly two decades, and I played about 1841 puzzles in about a month and managed to reach a puzzle rating of 2605. Reaching 2400 was pretty natural and instinctive after I started to take it seriously, but the next 200 points to 2605 took deeper focus and time to solve. I suspect 2605 to 3000 will be a bit like scaling Mt. Everest without an oxygen tank, so I’ll probably play unrated for awhile for practice.
Recreational mathematics, logic puzzles, and strategy board games like Chess, have been shown to increase neuroplasticity. I find the whole game fascinating, and while I’ve never considered playing professionally, there are many inspirational figures like Fischer that make the game intriguing.
I may reveal my account and link it here after awhile so you can add me, but for now I’d like to continue working on it in my spare time.
FIDE Rating System
lichess.com & chess.com ratings are slightly different from FIDE. You can see how they vary at this webpage.
| 2700+ | No formal title, but sometimes informally called “super grandmasters” |
| 2700–2500 | most Grandmasters (GM) |
| 2499–2400 | most International Masters (IM) and some Grandmasters (GM) |
| 2399–2300 | most FIDE Masters (FM) and some International Masters (IM) |
| 2299–2200 | FIDE Candidate Masters (CM), most national masters (NM) |
| 2199–2000 | Candidate masters (CM) |
| 1999–1800 | Class A, category 1 |
| 1799–1600 | Class B, category 2 |
| 1599–1400 | Class C, category 3 |
| 1399–1200 | Class D, category 4 |
| 1199–1000 | Class E, category 5 |
| Below 1000 | Novices |
Legendary Players (Past)
Average & peak ratings are pulled from chessmetrics. Averages are 3-year peak range.
| Bobby Fischer | 2867 (2895) |
| Gary Kasparov | 2874 (2886) |
| José Capablanca | 2857 (2877) |
| Emanuel Lasker | 2855 (2878) |
| Mikhail Botvinnik | 2852 (2885) |
| Alexander Alekhine | 2841 (2860) |
| Anatoly Karpov | 2833 (2848) |
| Viswanathan Anand | 2822 (2833) |
| Vladimir Kramnik | 2815 (2826) |
| Mikhail Tal | 2786 (2799) |
| Paul Morphy | 2716 (2743) |
Super Grandmasters
Current classical ratings from Chess.com. Updated May 20, 2024 at 2:15 PM.
| #1 | Magnus Carlsen | 2830 |
| #2 | Fabiano Caruana | 2805 |
| #3 | Hikaru Nakamura | 2794 |
| #4 | Ian Nepomniachtchi | 2770 |
| #5 | Nodirbek Abdusattorov | 2766 |
Grandmasters
| #143 | Daniel Naroditsky | 2619 (2647) |
| #934 | Igor Smirnov | 2505 |