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by palae 2046 days ago
> New players start at 1500 ELO in both Lichess and FIDE

I've never played otb, but on the FIDE website, they have a initial rating calculator (https://ratings.fide.com/calc.phtml?page=initial) which seems to depend on your opponents' ratings and your performance, but not on the number 1500