Questions tagged [fide]
Questions about FIDE, the international governing body of chess.
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Is wearing headphones during chess games against the rules in FIDE and Chess.com?
Recently Vladimir Kramnik accused Hikaru Nakamura of cheating in online chess. He Tweeted : "It is impossible to imagine a player to be allowed to wear headphones during a game of chess." Or ...
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How early can you resign a game?
Imagine a situation where you are playing in a FIDE-rated tournament.
You're at the board but for some reason you don't want to play anymore.
Can you resign the game before it even starts, or can you ...
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Does Fide/Elo rating fade over time?
Let's imagine I am a super genius, and I get a ELO ranking of 3000. And then suddenly I stop playing chess, what happens to my rating then over time? Does it slowly decrease by NOT playing?
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Can one make a deal with their opponent over what opening to play?
In official tournaments, are the two players allowed to talk (before or at the start) of a match to compromise on openings, eg.
If white is good at the Sicilian but bad at the Caro-Kann and black is ...
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Rating decreased suddenly without reason, FIDE rating displayed wrongly in the website can anyone have such Problems
My son's rating opened when he played international match during August 2023. The rating was displayed in FIDE website on the last date of August, and it was 1156.
Later on September he played another ...
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How would this position be scored if you ran out of time here?
Here is the position (black has just played Qf8, the only legal move after White's Re8+):
[FEN "2nKRq1k/6pp/8/3n4/6b1/8/8/8 w - - 0 1"]
In this position white has a forced mate in one, in ...
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Is it legal, after touching a piece to move other pieces for the purpose of visualization
Imagine the following scenario:
I am playing as white and on my first move I:
Touch my b1 knight without moving it or pressing the clock
Move one of my opponents pieces
Move one of my pieces (...
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Official knight move rule definition
Not a trivial question: How would you define the knight move rule on a d-dimensional chessboard (say an 8 X 8 X ... X 8 board) by extending the official knight move rule that states how a knight moves ...
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My FIDE Initial Rating Calculation Problem
I’m working on path to get my initial FIDE rating. I joined 8 local FIDE rated tournaments with result as follow.
Rating = Result
Rapid Ratings November 2022
1083 = 0
Rapid Ratings March 2023
1142 =...
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How do arbiters handle touch move complains where players deny?
So, two cases. Player A (A) and Player B (B)
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B touches a piece. A sees it. B plays something else. A complains to arbiter that B didn't play the touched piece. Arbiter didn't see that B ...
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How many former Russian players have moved from RUS or FID registration to another country since the May 2023 offer?
"most are likely to do so Do you have any sources for this? "
The quote comes from a comment made by Allure to this post of mine where I claimed:
FIDE have made it possible for Russian ...
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Why isnt the World Championship formatted like that?
Just have the Men's section, Women's section and Junior's section and the 3 winners play each other in a quadruple robin round format (each player plays 8 games) and the winner becomes the next World ...
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Who has the edge in "gg chess"?
EDIT: I think a better name is gg chess, because "gg" (good game) is what folks frequently say at the end of a game.
At major chess events, at the end of a drawn game, the players & ...
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Question on FIDE Rating List Submission
I am playing in a tournament on the 19th-20th of this month and I have a question regarding FIDE rating change for the end of the month when the new list is published.
I have done very well in some ...
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Wrong ELO calculation
My daughter is a chess player. My concern is about her FIDE rating calculation in the August 2023 rating list. My daughter is Huseynova Lala Fide İD 13431781.
She played in 2 tournaments, the Paracin ...
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FIDE and USCF: If an arbiter is watching a chess game and observes that a rule has been violated, should the arbiter intervene?
FIDE and USCF: If an arbiter is watching a chess game and observes that a rule has been violated, should the arbiter intervene? Or should the arbiter intervene only if a player complains? Some people ...
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FIDE and USCF: What do the rules say when a player insults an arbiter?
FIDE and USCF: What do the rules say when a player insults an arbiter?
This is an uncommon situation. In general, chess players are very polite people. 30 years ago, I was in training with Paul Klein, ...
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Correcting a wrong name on a FIDE ID
My child is a new member of FIDE. However, his name is wrong. As such, I need to correct the name FIDE have for them.
How does one go about doing this?
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What are FIDE really hoping to achieve by the proposed rating changes from January 2024?
FIDE have published a new article: FIDE seeks public discussion about proposed rating changes. They say:
In the past decade, certain innovations have caused rating deflation, a concern that has been ...
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Ding liren is 2nd in the asia, who first?
It's says that he's second, but isn't he first?
https://ratings.fide.com/profile/8603677
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Correct swiss pairings for a group of 4 players
Say we have a situation that's not super uncommon in swiss tournaments. There are four people currently tied with the most points, where #1 and #3 have just played White (for example), while #2 and #4 ...
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Are there any official rules which govern the announcement of pairings for a FIDE rated tournament?
Are there any specific rules for the pairing announcement, like they have to be announced "x" hours before the start of the next round? Or does it completely depend upon the tournament ...
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Why are there so few candidate masters?
According to Wikipedia, as of 2021, there were approximately 2,000 open Candidate Masters, and about 8000 FIDE masters. If the conditions for CM are lower than that of FM, why are there fewer CMs than ...
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Real reason tournament director of Teplice Open in Czechia tried to ban Ukrainian players?
I have just seen that FIDE has stepped in and told the organisers of the Teplice Open that they may not ban Ukrainian players from the tournament. Searching for more information as to why a tournament ...
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What is the state of the new FIDE Arbiter Refresher Courses?
Related question here asking about the changes for the changes in the regulations for FIDE arbiters (FA and IA) which came into force two years ago.
Previously the rules regarding inactivity for ...
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What does FIDE rating 1800 entail?
I have a classical rating of around 2000 on Lichess. I’m aware that FIDE Classical time control is much longer than Lichess classical, so I just made it as some kind of reference point.
I’m mainly ...
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How does a player's fide rating change calculated for previous month's rating even in the next month
This is a follow-up question to this asked some time back to which I didn't quite understand the given answer.
I'll take an example
A certain player had rating 2422 on Sep 2022 according to the chart
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Why did Garry Kasparov retire?
I have heard that he was rather upset at the establishment, but I don't know why? What this the only reason, or were there others?
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How are FIDE rating changes calculated for a tournament across rating periods?
If I play a FIDE-rated tournament with games from the April 30th to May 2nd, will the ELO changes be calculated using my April rating, my May rating, or April in April and May in May?
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Can my K-factor change in the middle of the month?
So, at this point, I have played 25 FIDE-rated games, and I expect to have played the full 30 games by the end of the month. According to the FIDE handbook, this means my K-factor will be reduced from ...
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Does the Russian Chess Federation switching to the ACF actually make it harder for Chinese/Indian players to qualify for the World Championships?
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"Thirdly, it is quite surprising that Indian and the Chinese federations agreed to this switch by the CFR, if they have (I have not seen the results of the vote), because it will lead to ...
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Russian Chess Federation leaves Europe (ECU) and joins Asia (ACF). What practical difference does this make?
Russia, which like Turkey is part in Europe and part in Asia, has formally left the European Chess Union (ECU) and joined the Asian Chess Federation (ACF).
I understand that this means that when these ...
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Example of 60 minute tournament that FIDE considers classical
For the sake of having an example re Why was the 2019 WFRCC called 'slow rapid' when it's actually classical (45+15=60)? where 60 minutes is exactly the border between rapid and classical:
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Chess960 castling controversies in the 2019 vs 2022 WFRCC, where both are Nepo vs Wesley So
Why did Ian Nepomniachtchi get a replay for the castling issue in the 2019 WFRCC vs Wesley So, but Wesley So didn't get a replay for the castling issue in the 2022 WFRCC vs Nepo?
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Why was the 2019 WFRCC called 'slow rapid' when it's actually classical (45+15=60)?
I'm asking about the '45 minutes for 40 moves plus 15 minutes for the rest, without increment' portions of the matches (for the quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals), which consisted of those and ...
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If classical is 120 minutes+ and rapid is 10-59 minutes, then what's 60-119 minutes? 'Slow rapid'?
Wikipedia says that FIDE says for tournaments with 2200+ rated players,
Classical is 120 minutes+
Rapid is 10-59 minutes
So what's 60-119 minutes for tournaments with 2200+ rated players? 'Slow ...
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Why didn't Wesley So get full championship privilege in the 2022 WFRCC unlike Magnus and Vishy did since 2008?
Wesley So didn't get full championship privilege in the 2022 WFRCC unlike Magnus and Vishy did from 2008 to 2021. They got only 1 opponent to defend against, namely the unique winner of a candidates ...
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Time control conversion when it comes to bonus time after eg 40 moves
I read that for increment games the way to convert them to non-increment games for the purpose of classification by time control goes as follows:
Original time + Increment x 40 = Time used to ...
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How does FIDE define slow rapid & fast rapid?
I don't think I've ever heard these terms 'slow rapid' and 'fast rapid' outside chess960. Just now I tried looking up "slow rapid" "chess" "fast rapid" and "slow ...
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In the 2019 WFRCC, did anyone catch up in a match after losing in the 'slow rapid' (classical?) portion?
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Each match of the quarterfinals consisted of two “slow” rapid games (45 minutes for 40 moves plus 15 minutes for the rest, without increment), two “fast” rapid games (15 minutes plus 2 ...
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Swiss bye only half-point?
Scanning my old club zines, I tripped over a 1989 article where it says the (then :-) new FIDE rules gave a half point for a Swiss bye. Possibilities:
a) The dude misunderstood the complicated rules. ...
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Why wouldn't Magnus Carlsen just farm rating points by playing weak tournaments to reach 2900 kinda like what Igors Rausis did? [duplicate]
Edit re close votes for opinion-based:
I edited question from don't/didn't to wouldn't. So now it's hypothetical for any player who happens to to have a peak rating of 2800+.
Voting this to be ...
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What happens when FIDE can't find a host for the World Championship match?
With less than 90 days to go to the 2023 World Championship match between Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren, FIDE can't seem to find a host for the game.
So what will happen when no one hosts the game?...
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USCF and FIDE: Is it legal to organize a tournament with the Monrad System? Monrad: rank 1 versus 2, in the first round. Swiss: 1 versus 5
We started to use the Monrad system:
https://rankedin.ladesk.com/043159-2152--Monrad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss-system_tournament
We are organizing a monthly tournament valid for ELO rating ...
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Information request for new FIDE certified ‘electronic scoresheet’
According to the latest FIDE Laws of Chess a FIDE certified ‘electronic scoresheet’ may be used instead of a regular old fashioned paper scoresheet.
8.1.1 In the course of play each player is ...
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What are the main changes in the latest (January 2023) version of the FIDE Laws of Chess?
FIDE has released its latest version of the Laws of Chess - FIDE Laws of Chess taking effect from 1 January 2023.
What are the main differences from the previous version(Laws of Chess: For ...
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Can someone press the clock without making a move to avoid getting flagged in 2022?
As the title says let's say it is a 1 hour 30 minute game with 30 seconds increment/move. Now if someone deliberately presses the clock at the last second without moving to avoid flagging and get the ...
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Wrong name and FIDE ID in rated classical tournament
I am play in a classical, FIDE rated event. I entered via my coach. I just gave him my name and said I don't have a FIDE id. When I was playing my first game I noticed that my name is wrong. They ...
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Can a non-rated tournament having all categories play in a single group and then the ranking decided based on overall performance?
Let's say there are 4 categories playing Chess: U11, U17, Ladies & Open.
In India, I have witnessed 2 types of category based Swiss tournaments, which are non-rated.
U11 players play each other; ...
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Where can I get PGNs of FIDE rated tournaments?
FIDE requires tournament organizers of high level tournaments (basically tournaments which are strong enough that norms can be won) to submit the pgn files of games played in the tournament to FIDE. ...
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