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  • Get Your Elo Rating Here!


    Use this test to get an estimate of your Elo rating: study each diagram for no more than five minutes, then input your move. At the bottom of the page you can click and immediately obtain your Elo rating estimate.
    Each position in this page comes from real play by strong players. Beware, not all of these positions are wins for the side on the move, nor the best move is necessarily a brilliant one. Try to avoid "cheating" by thinking in terms of finding a combination: there may be none available. Instead, concentrate on the position, evaluate it and type the move you would play on the chessboard in a real game. This will hopefully yield the most precise estimate of your Elo rating.
    Some of these positions are pretty easy to play, but most of them are tough. Again, remember that these are real games between strong players: even the losing side (when there was one) might have been of IM/GM strength...


    Warning: type in starting and ending squares with lowercase letters. You won't need special moves in these tests (like castling, en passant, or promotions), so nothing but starting and ending square is necessary.
    Beware, no check is made to warrant the validity of the moves.

    Diagram 1:


    Black to move. Type starting and ending square:



    Diagram 2:


    White to move. Type starting and ending square:



    Diagram 3:


    White to move. Type starting and ending square:



    Diagram 4:


    White to move. Type starting and ending square:



    Diagram 5:


    White to move. Type starting and ending square:



    Diagram 6:


    White to move. Type starting and ending square:



    Diagram 7:


    Black to move. Type starting and ending square:



    Diagram 8:


    White to move. Type starting and ending square:



    Diagram 9:


    White to move. Type starting and ending square:



    Diagram 10:


    Black to move. Type starting and ending square:





    Result:


    Your estimated Elo rating is