Questions tagged [fide]
Questions about FIDE, the international governing body of chess.
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Does chess need promoting at all?
Chess has survived for thousands of years. Do we need to make special efforts to promote it?
Should anyone bother to promote chess other than FIDE?
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Old versions of FIDE laws of chess? [duplicate]
Is it possible to view or obtain old versions of the FIDE Laws of Chess? I would like to trace the history of when various rules were added or modified.
The FIDE handbook only goes back as far as ...
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Is it OK to adjust your opponent's pieces, and what if he objects?
With all the questions lately about pieces being knocked off the board, being forced to adjust a fallen piece, etc., it made me think of this common scenario.
Players often adjust more than their own ...
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Can a player be forced to adjust a piece?
If one of my pieces is knocked off the board unintentionally, do I need to place it back on the board?
Can I continue to play with one or more pieces not on the board (but still have it in effect - ...
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FIDE rules when opponent accidentally promotes to your Queen
This happened to someone else recently in a time scramble during an OTB game. His opponent promoted a pawn and placed a Queen of the wrong color on the board. He was corrected by the player and the ...
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Should a player be forced to move a piece that he has picked up after a spectator knocked it off the board?
While anyone can answer this, I do have official FIDE arbiters in mind.
I am following a discussion on chess.com about the worst way you have lost a game. Someone related this story:
This didn't ...
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Creating program for finding top players with respect to elo and age
I want to create a program for personal use but also maybe for publishing it on the web, in order to detect the top players with respect to elo and age. There will be two cases:
A) In this case, ...
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Penalty for violating FIDE rule 8.1.2 - writing moves in advance
At one of the chess league fixtures recently, one of the players was writing moves in advance of moving the pieces on the board.
As per the FIDE rule 8.1.2 it's forbidden to do so, but in practice ...
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Is rotating a pawn so that it faces a different direction and then moves in that direction technically permitted according to the 2018 FIDE Laws?
While browsing the Chess Stack Exchange and Puzzling Stack Exchange sites, I've come across several instances where people have found loopholes in the rules of chess, causing these loopholes to be ...
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Was playing with both hands ever allowed in chess?
I was watching this video on Youtube of an Armageddon game between Vladimir Kramnik and Garry Kasparov which happened in 1995. It can be seen that Kasparov is using both of his hands for some moves. (...
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What are pros and cons around banning castling?
Vladimir Kramnik has proposed on chess.com that castling be banned for the good of the game.
What are the kinds of objective points that might be made for & against this idea? Based on these, do ...
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Possible game result combinations in a FIDE tournament report file
I am currently working on a small side project and want to write a chess tournament manager in Haskell. To properly set up the data structures I am wondering what the possible results of a chess game ...
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Which FIDE rule forbids pressing the clock before taking captured pieces off the board?
A long time ago I used to play OTB blitz chess at a chess club. We had club blitz tournaments [5 mins each with no increment because the clocks were old-school chess clocks]. I was new to blitz. I ...
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Can a player move before his opponent hits the clock?
In a reply to another question, I made an explicit presumption that under FIDE Laws, a player can move as soon as the opponent’s move has been made. But someone wondered if this was this really ...
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Is the FIDE International Organizer title required to organize high level FIDE tournaments?
The FIDE Handbook has a section called Regulations on Seminars & Title Award for Organizers where it describes what you need to do to get the FIDE International Organizer title. It says:
Scope /...
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When is it appropriate for the arbiter to reduce a player's time?
According to the FIDE Laws of Chess:
12.9 Options available to the arbiter concerning penalties:
12.9.1 warning,
12.9.2 increasing the remaining time of the opponent,
12.9.3 reducing ...
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Longest sequence of moves by one player with the same piece?
I suspect the following game in the European Club Champioship between David Howell and Pentala Harikrishna set a number of records.
[title "Howell, David W L vs Harikrishna, Pentala"]
[fen ""]
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Who won the FIDE Chess Clock Contract Bidding?
It should have been announced on September 23. But still, nothing on the FIDE website has appeared. Does anyone know who won in all 3 categories?
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How do I “Get My Foot in the Door”? [duplicate]
The title may be a little misleading. My question is, how do I become or begin to become a player who is in the FIDE system? Is there a specific process I must go to, specific tournaments, steps I ...
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FIDE rating in blitz
I played in a blitz tournament. It was an official FIDE tournament, so ratings should be calculated. I wasn't rated before that tournament. It was played over 11 rounds with a rematch so you could ...
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Should the Laws of Chess have an overseeing board independent from FIDE?
Why are the laws of chess still being overseen by the same political-governing body called FIDE and not by an independent autonomous body like in other major sporting codes such as football where IFAB ...
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Why is coffee provided during big chess events when it contains a banned substance?
Why is coffee provided for free during big chess events like the Olympiad despite the fact that it contains caffeine, which is a banned substance according to the World Anti Doping Agency (WADA)?
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How has the frequency of FIDE rating lists changed over the years?
Today FIDE publishes a new rating list once a month. When FIDE first started publishing official lists in 1971 they came out once a year. How has the frequency changed over the years? When did the ...
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Online chess with full disclosure of name and FIDE ID
I would like to play online chess via an interface where name and FIDE number are disclosed, mainly because I believe that this discourages engine users.
A few questions:
I found the FIDE Arena ...
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Why is chess failing to attract big name sponsors?
Despite all the efforts that chess professionals put to the game the majority of them cannot make a living out of chess. Only 4 or 5 super grandmasters across the world have been able to make a few ...
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Should FIDE introduce a minimum rating for arbiters?
As it stands right now, FIDE does not have any minimum Elo rating requirement for arbiters. In fact, there's no test to check whether one can play chess or not before being awarded a FIDE arbiter-...
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Possible ways to end a game of chess [duplicate]
How many possible ways are there to win a game of chess besides checkmate, resignation, timeout and disqualification.
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Why is the time control for FIDE chess tournaments what it is?
Now that from this answer, I know what the time control is, why is it 90 minute base time for the first 40 moves, an additional 30 minute base time for the rest of the game plus a 30 second increment ...
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What does the FIDE president do?
What is the role of the president of the International Chess Federation? What does he or she do, and what is he or she supposed to do?
I have looked at sources such as Wikepedia
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Database of chess results
I'm looking for a database or a collection of the chess results of all FIDE-rated games (standard time control). The data I'm interested in is: the white player, the black player, the result and the ...
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Rating calculation problem
Firstly I got 1018 rating last year. Then next tournament deducted 25 and my FIDE rating became zero.
Then I faced next tournament opponent 03 players 1352, 1255 and 1174 respectively. All 03 games ...
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Threefold repetition in view of castling rights
In view of castling rights, an aspiring rules lawyer could ask: when does threefold repetition support a draw claim? Technical example:
[fen ""]
[title "Illustration of castling rights"]
[startply "...
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What should be defined as an en passant checkmate?
Is there a general consensus amongst top chess players, composers, analyzists, and organizations, such as FIDE, for what exactly defines an en passant checkmate?
Is there any history for it?
As far ...
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Is there a specific penalty for intentionally damaging chess pieces or the board?
If a player intentionally damages a chess set (e.g. breaks a piece in two, cracks the board, etc.), is there a specific penalty under FIDE rules? I'm not talking about moving pieces around ...
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In what way is it allowed to alter tournament pairings in favor of a player?
The FIDE Rules for Swiss Systems state:
C.04.2 A It is not allowed to alter the correct pairings in favour of any player.
and then further state:
Where it can be shown that modifications of ...
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For white's next move, should it be recorded as Nge2 or Ne2 as there is only one knight which can legally move to e2?
[FEN "rnbq1rk1/ppp2ppp/4pn2/3p4/1bPP4/2NBP3/PP3PPP/R1BQK1NR w KQ - 0 6"]
If white move his king knight to e2 in the next move, should this move be recorded as Nge2 or Ne2 in the algebraic notation?
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what is the shortest allowable time control for a FIDE rated standard tournament game?
My chess club wants to host a FIDE tournament in a couple of months with 3 FIDE rated games in one day.
What is the shortest allowed time control for FIDE rated standard tournament games so we can ...
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Does FIDE make any money from media coverage?
Unlike any other professional sports I know of, everyone seems to be able to broadcast chess world chess championship online.
That raises the question, are they making any money from media coverage? ...
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FIDE threefold repetition and possible moves [closed]
FIDE rules section 9.2 says:
Positions are considered the same if and only if the same player has
the move, pieces of the same kind and colour occupy the same squares
and the possible moves of ...
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If a player is significantly behind in time, does it mean he's bound to lose?
Let's focus on FIDE classical chess finals historically.
Caruana is always behind in time control, thinks more, waste more energy.
Statistically speaking, did the players who played faster won more ...
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FIDE ignores my case. How to proceed?
Last year, there was an incident where the arbiter ignored cheating, and I filed a report to register a case to FIDE Ethics Commission. The registration was made by email, in November 2017, and I have ...
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FIDE World Champions after 1993
Are FIDE World Champions after the 1993 Kasparov-Short match, i.e. Khalifman, Ponomariov, Kasymdžanov, Topalov, (not counting Karpov and Anand, for obvious reasons) to be considered actual World ...
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How do TWIC, chessgames.com, chessbase, etc. keep up to date with new games?
Most players use these services to keep up to date on the latest chess results, but how do these services source their databases? It would seem like a prohibitive amount of work to scrape results from ...
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Should a player use the provided carbon copy sheet to record moves in a club/tournament? [duplicate]
I've been told some times that I must record my moves in the carbon copy sheet provided by the organizer instead of using my own chess notebooks.
Is there any rule preventing me from using my own ...
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Why is the FIDE name in French?
I noticed that FIDE stands for " Fédération Internationale des Échecs". Shouldn't it be in English as 'World Chess Federation'? I noticed, though unrelated, that it is the same for SI Units (System ...
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Why is there a minimum rating gain when you win?
Fide has a rule saying that if one player is rated more than 400 points higher than his opponent, their difference should be set to 400 when calculating rating gain/loss. That means no matter how weak ...
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What is a move that “is recorded in such a way that its true significance is impossible to establish”?
According to FIDE rule E.8 on temporary adjournment (my emphasis),
Except in the cases mentioned in Articles 5, 6.9, 9.6 and 9.7, the game is lost by a player whose recording of his sealed move:
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Calculation of national rating
In order to calculate effect on national rating, should it be enough to choose the relevant k coefficient (assuming this is what makes for the discrepancy between national rating and FIDE rating) and ...
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What is the result? (Rules + puzzle)
[EDITED to include followup - EDIT 2 to include definition of position]
This is in part a genuine question on the FIDE Laws of Chess, and in part a small puzzle to solve.
Suppose that during a long ...
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What is the Bronstein (delay) equivalent of Fischer time control of game in 90 plus 30 second increment for FIDE rating?
The FIDE Rating Regulations say
For a game to be rated each player must have the following minimum
periods in which to complete all the moves, assuming the game lasts 60
moves. Where at least ...
