Questions tagged [fide]
Questions about FIDE, the international governing body of chess.
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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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FIDE Rating Distribution
This answer has a link to the Lichess blitz rating distribution which looks like this:
It looks like a good approximation to a normal distribution, perhaps slightly skewed to the upper half, and has ...
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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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What happens if a player dies at the board? What is the ruling?
What happens if a player dies at the board? What is the ruling? I am interested in both FIDE and/or USCF rules.
I seem to recall about 40 years ago, when reading my first copy of the USCF rule book, ...
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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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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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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?
This is ...
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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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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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What sets the absolute value of players' Elo rating?
I understand that the way the Elo updating process works, if player A has a 66% chance of beating player B, then A's Elo rating will converge to be 100 higher than B, and so forth for 74%, ... etc. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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List of female chess players by peak FIDE rating
Update: The answer currently doesn't include countries and other trivia like in the original one. Please consider posting an answer with at least the countries or editing current answer to include ...
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List of female chess players by peak FIDE rating with countries?
same question as here but with countries please. hopefully we can have a list as close to the original wiki page as possible.
I'll start:
1 - Hungary - Judit Polgar - 2735 - 2005-07 - 1976 - N/A - ...
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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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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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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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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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Why no notation for "Resigns" or "Lost on time"?
Suppose a chess game was decisive but didn't go to checkmate. Why does its notation not say whether the loser resigned or lost on time?
There are plenty of NAG symbols; even some ($136-$139) relating ...
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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:
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[title "Illustration of castling rights&...
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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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Ding liren is 2nd in the asia, who first?
It's says that he's second, but isn't he first?
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Running out of time before playing a forced move that would draw the game
What happens if a player runs out of time before playing a forced move that would end in a draw? I suspect it is a loss, but it would be fair to be a draw.
7K/6P1/8/8/8/8/1k4p1/8 b - - 0 1
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When did FIDE's attitude towards boycotts change?
First off, don't get me wrong. I fully understand and back FIDE's removal of competitions from Russia and Belarus. When one country is invading a neighbour the last thing you want to do is hold a ...
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What is the FIDE Arbiter's exam like?
According to the FIDE Handbook (B.06.1.3.7), one of the requirements to become a FIDE Arbiter is:
Attendance of one (1) FIDE Arbiters’ Seminar and successfully passing (at least 80%) an examination ...
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Where can I find a list of tournaments to participate in?
Where should I look for a list of tournaments in which new players can participate? I know that many players want to play real matches, but don't know how and where.
Also provide list for online ...
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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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Worst grandmaster by rating
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/worlds-lowest-rated-grandmaster
This is a joke thread about the 'world's worst grandmaster', Panko Smoobachuk. Seeing this post, I wondered, what is the ...
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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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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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What is going on with FIDE's latest rapid and blitz ratings? Some players are more than 500 points higher in one month!
It's the last day of September and the provisional rating list for October has been released. There are some very strange ratings changes in that ratings list. Sri Lankan IM LMST De Silva played no ...
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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 many FIDE-rated games must be played to obtain a *non* provisional rating?
I have a provisional FIDE rating of 1980 based on my score of 1 (two draws) out of 4 at a FIDE-rated tournament earlier this year; see: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2059100 where ...
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Ignoring Touch Move results in an Illegal Move?
I just wanted to clarify the following incident:
When touching a piece without expressing the intend to adjust its position (cf. 4.2.1 FIDE Laws of Chess), such that it has to be moved because there ...
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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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How do you register a FIDE rating?
I want to register a FIDE rating, but I can find nothing about that on the official website. How do I register an official FIDE rating?
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What is the TimeControl format for FIDE tournament?
The TimeControl formats I've found on the web split the TimeControl in time periods separated by a special character, for instance:
G/90 (one period with 90min to end the game)
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