Does anyone else feel that for the same elo, chess.com players are better ? • page 1/3 • General Chess Discussion • lichess.org

No hate for lichess, I primarily play here and love how everything is free but I can not help but notice that the opponents I face here are not as good as on chess.com. Here I just reached 1400 rapid and on chess.com I am 1100 and struggle there.
Then yesterday I was searching about this on the internet and found memes which were based exactly on this. It turns out lichess players are ridiculed for this.
So I was wondering if there were others who felt the same. I this is true then what could be the reason for this ?

No hate for lichess, I primarily play here and love how everything is free but I can not help but notice that the opponents I face here are not as good as on chess.com. Here I just reached 1400 rapid and on chess.com I am 1100 and struggle there. Then yesterday I was searching about this on the internet and found memes which were based exactly on this. It turns out lichess players are ridiculed for this. So I was wondering if there were others who felt the same. I this is true then what could be the reason for this ?

Aiden_Chen

#2

@Yuno_Me
Chess.com and lichess have different rating systems. That doesn't mean lichess opponents are not good, it's simply the rating system, nothing to do with the players.

@Yuno_Me Chess.com and lichess have different rating systems. That doesn't mean lichess opponents are not good, it's simply the rating system, nothing to do with the players.

No.

Lichess uses different system you cannot compare them.

Yuno_Me

#5

Whats the difference in rating system ? It works pretty much the same

Qwertise

#6

i knwo why, its becoz when you register in lichess it gives you 1500 rating (with question mark) and if you win with same 1500 you get 200+points! whereas in chess.com you don't get question but when you win you don't get that much points as lichess gives.
Hence proved!

i knwo why, its becoz when you register in lichess it gives you 1500 rating (with question mark) and if you win with same 1500 you get 200+points! whereas in chess.com you don't get question but when you win you don't get that much points as lichess gives. Hence proved!

Aiden_Chen

#6

@Yuno_Me
Glicko 1 and Glicko 2 are different. Also lichess starts at 1500

@Yuno_Me Glicko 1 and Glicko 2 are different. Also lichess starts at 1500

MasterLucienJaccon

#7

On lichess.org (which i use more) I'm like 1700, but on che**.com, I'm like 1300.

Azeonth

#8

Honestly there is something weird about chess.com players. I remember playing on account that had like 800 blitz and bullet rating. I was winning, but they really took their time in the opening and always played somehow good moves, none of them blunder their night or sth. In contrast they played really bad and usually run out of time in positon where they could do 8 different moves that wouldn't be loosing

BakeGary

#9

With the Glicko system (used by both websites), ratings are relative to everyone in the system. On average, chess.com users are stronger than lichess users. An average player for each system will always be rated 1500. 1400 on lichess shows that you're slightly below average for a lichess rapid player, and 1100 shows that you're significantly weaker than the average chess.com rapid player.

Chess.com players are actually stronger than lichess players with the same ratings. However, you shouldn't be struggling more on one site than the other. If lichess opponents were actually easy for you, you would beat more and then play lichess users who are your strength.

With the Glicko system (used by both websites), ratings are relative to everyone in the system. On average, chess.com users are stronger than lichess users. An average player for each system will always be rated 1500. 1400 on lichess shows that you're slightly below average for a lichess rapid player, and 1100 shows that you're significantly weaker than the average chess.com rapid player. Chess.com players are actually stronger than lichess players with the same ratings. However, you shouldn't be struggling more on one site than the other. If lichess opponents were actually easy for you, you would beat more and then play lichess users who are your strength.