ok . i am second year law student who has reached 2200 elo in chess.com in rapid like a week ago . should i put this in resume . you ask why because i am form non nlu thats why . . next issue is that i have only have 8+ cgpa and no moots and nothing as an extra thing on cv aside form 2 internship . used extra time playing chess and studying opening .

This advice is both helpful and unhelpful.

Helpful because it gives a good suggestion as to the direction you might want to take in your career. In fact, it gives you a pretty clear roadmap!

Unhelpful because it is a paradigmatic situation of doing the working correctly but still arriving at the wrong answer. Therefore, only 3/5 in my book, I am afraid. At the end of the day, all manner of skills, experiences and abilities can serve as helpful indicators as to how or why you may make a great commercial lawyer to a recruiter. Chess can equally be one of those skills. Indeed, one of my best friends is a trainee at Linklaters London office (also got a TC offer from Clifford Chance) who mentioned having played chess competitively representing her uni on her law firm applications and they were quite impressed by it.

So by all means: develop your skills in a practice area. But do and talk about other things that make you memorable. Loads of folks follow this exact roadmap which this response to which I am responding has suggested. If your application can be the one which follows this roadmap and adds to it by talking about your chess experience and if you have done well, then so much the better for you, I'd have thought... after all, that extra thing is what sets you apart from the others.

NB: I don't play chess so don't understand it and what you might have achieved in it. (Tried to play when I was younger but somehow couldn't take much interest in it.) Therefore, the only thing I'd add is to take this advice I have given with some caution if you haven't done awfully well in chess, and you don't see any prospect of yourself doing so in the future.

Mistakenly send my pervious message

My primary motive of asking this question can I replace my non nlu with something else that can be seen as sign of intelligence. My college is decent at best

But To be competitive at law firm application that why i consider it to put in my cv to been seen as other sign of intelligence and grit other than college rank and nlu status

Hey man. I am a partner in a law firm and we recently interviewed a candidate who had his ELO rating on his CV (1600 if i remember correctly). The other interviewers looked at me for confirmation on whether this was something impressive. So I asked him if it was an OTB ELO rating and he confirmed. This lead to a bit of a discussion in the interview about chess, ratings, tournaments etc. Overall, it can work as an ice-breaker and demonstrate that you have some skills outside of work. But since your rating is a Chess.com rating rather than the FIDE Elo rating, you should be prepared to field that question, if someone asks. I personally dont think it's bad for you to put it under your extra-curricular section. Obviously, this isnt what gets you a job though, so work on the rest of the CV. All the best!