I am 2100 blitz and 2300 bullet at 14, is it too late to take chess to a professional level for me?

If you are judging your ratings by your LiChess bullet and blitz games, you are probably barely 1400 on OTB chess. LiChess has single-handedly devalued the 2000 rating. You need to join an OTB chess club and play real chess.

@billcourtney said in #41:
> If you are judging your ratings by your LiChess bullet and blitz games, you are probably barely 1400 on OTB chess. LiChess has single-handedly devalued the 2000 rating. You need to join an OTB chess club and play real chess.

Even though online ratings tend to be much higher than OTB, this is exaggerated. The OP is actually 1800 FIDE. There are plenty of masters with <2500 llichess blitz rating. A true 1400 FIDE would probably be like 1600-1800 blitz here.

After the FIDE compression FIDE 1400 is not 1600. current 1400 used to 1000 so 1400 probably maps to lichess blitz around 1200.

@billcourtney said in #41:
> If you are judging your ratings by your LiChess bullet and blitz games, you are probably barely 1400 on OTB chess. LiChess has single-handedly devalued the 2000 rating. You need to join an OTB chess club and play real chess.
I am 1800 fide

If you ain't 2300 FIDE at 2 years old, forget about chess.

@petri999 said in #43:
> After the FIDE compression FIDE 1400 is not 1600. current 1400 used to 1000 so 1400 probably maps to lichess blitz around 1200.
No way. 1400 FIDE is close to 1800 Blitz.

The good thing about chess is that you can literally become a master in it regardless the age( within certain limits)

No it is not 1400 is barely has rating in FIDE i.e cannot go lower (other than drop from list)
Looking at persons I know
blitz here FIDE
2020 1990
and me
1400 1619

Just two data points but that is enoug to show 1400 fide is nowhere close 1800. Besides my rating will drop once I play more Elo rated games as step function in FIDE rating will cause and has caused turbulence in ratings. My guess is that it will settle aroun 1500 and whole lotta player will lose they fide rating as the 1400 will not mean same as old 1000 as it meant when rating change was done

Hard to find data point for weak players. and on this claim +2000 ELo is not really too usfull

GREAT JOB ON BEING OVER 2k at 14!!!
I think you should take to a professional level now.

@billcourtney said in #41:
> If you are judging your ratings by your LiChess bullet and blitz games, you are probably barely 1400 on OTB chess. LiChess has single-handedly devalued the 2000 rating. You need to join an OTB chess club and play real chess.
Out of curiosity , do care to mention your over the board rating you currently hold either USCF or FIDE .
It is a well known phenomenon that lichess ratings are typically inflated compared to over the board uscf or fide ratings by about 300 points (the inflation tends to drop due to the nature of the glicko-2 rating algorithm once you get passed about 2200ish or so). However your blitz rating is 800 here so you got me curious so please clarify.

By the way , pertaining to that particular user: He mentions his real name (Aidankrishna Sarkar) in the lichess profile so a 5 second google search would have revealed you his over the board fide rating: