Hi fellow Lichess players!
I'm making a survey in which volunteers can post their FIDE rating here with the intention of making a graph and see how that compares to Lichess ratings on average!
Browsing the forum I've come across many people wondering how those were in fact relating, and the answer to this is just: you can not compare them, because the pools are different.
Surely this is the correct theoretical answer, and as chess players we all want to be proud of knowing theoretical stuff, right. But that doesn't stop us from making a statistical research to see if the progression is somewhat linear.
Thanks for you help!
Best regards,
FBD
I'm making a survey in which volunteers can post their FIDE rating here with the intention of making a graph and see how that compares to Lichess ratings on average!
Browsing the forum I've come across many people wondering how those were in fact relating, and the answer to this is just: you can not compare them, because the pools are different.
Surely this is the correct theoretical answer, and as chess players we all want to be proud of knowing theoretical stuff, right. But that doesn't stop us from making a statistical research to see if the progression is somewhat linear.
Thanks for you help!
Best regards,
FBD