How can you measure your own playing strength in relation to other players?

 

An important criteria for judging your playing strength is the Rating that you are given in rated games played on the Playchess server. Further useful information is supplied by the complete rating list on the chess server.

 

What position are you in a list of all the rated players on the chess server?

 

You can find this information in the dialog View rating, which can be opened either by right clicking a player’s date or by pressing the button underneath the player window.

 

 

In the dialog with the ratings you also see the following information:

 

 

Ranking shows the position in the list relative to the other players. In this example the player is in the 282nd place among  14270 rated players.

 

Note: The rating position is shown for every type of game. To get the rating for other types of games you have to select the correct tab at the top of the window.