0Welcome to EloGuessr, the ultimate chess rating guessing tool. Watch real games, analyze the moves, and test your chess intuition by predicting the players' exact Elo rating. Perfect your board vision and climb the global leaderboards!
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Fast-paced! 3 quick rounds. Leaderboard eligible.
10 rounds of standard guessing. Test your true intuition.
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Using EloGuessr is simple and designed to help you build your chess intuition. Follow these steps:
Observe a real chess game sourced from Lichess. Navigate through the moves using the arrows or autoplay to see the game's progression.
Look for tactical depth, positional understanding, and time management to estimate their skill level. Check our chess guides if you need help.
Enter the Elo rating you think the players have. The closer your guess is to the actual rating, the more points you score!
Welcome to EloGuessr! If you have watched GothamChess or other popular content creators guess the ratings of their subscribers, you already know the drill. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to get the most out of our rating tool:
After you submit your guess, our algorithm calculates your accuracy based on how close you were to the actual average rating of the two players. Here is how to interpret your scores:
Next Actions: If you struggle to accurately guess games below 1000 Elo, it might be because you assume players will play logical moves. To improve, focus on evaluating the position objectively rather than projecting what you would play.
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Want to get better at rating guesses? Read our guides for spotting good moves, catching blunders, and building better chess intuition.
Read the Guides Read the Daily BlogThe Elo rating system is a mathematical method for calculating the relative skill levels of players in zero-sum games such as chess. Invented by Arpad Elo, it is used officially by organizations like FIDE (The International Chess Federation). In an Elo system, if a lower-rated player beats a higher-rated player, they gain significantly more rating points than if the higher-rated player had won as expected.
Yes, EloGuessr is completely free to play. You can play as an anonymous guest as much as you like, or you can create a free account to save your scores, track your accuracy over time, and compete on the global leaderboard against thousands of other chess enthusiasts.
We source millions of real, anonymized chess games from the open-source database at Lichess.org. The games cover all time controls including Bullet, Blitz, Rapid, and Classical, and span ratings from 100 Elo all the way up to 3000 Elo.
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One of the hardest things about guessing low-Elo chess games is accepting that players experience "tunnel vision." In time scrambles or at lower ratings, players focus entirely on their own plans and often miss one-move checkmates or hanging queens. This is what makes Guess the Elo so entertaining!
Start your first game now and see if you can guess the exact Elo!
At EloGuessr.net, we believe the fastest way to improve is to look at real games, trust your own read, and compare it with the actual rating afterward. That habit helps you notice stronger ideas, sloppy moves, and the little patterns that separate one level of play from another.