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Ratings (Part 2 of How does OTB chess work)

Throughout your chess career you will not go one day without thinking of ratings...

Ratings, Ratings, and Ratings. Rating is one of the most common chess terminology. In Part 2 of How does OTB chess work we are going to look at ratings.

By: Yash B

Ratings according to Wikipedia are defined as so:
Chess rating system. A chess rating system is a system used in chess to calculate an estimate of the strength of the player, based on his or her performance versus other players.

Wow. Wikipedia can be quite descriptive sometimes. To elaborate you have to pay a chess federation like

United States Chess Federation

Fédération Internationale des Échecs
Or World Chess Federation (commonly know as FIDE)


You can have both a FIDE and USCF membership. Many top player are part of at least 10 federations due to all of their tournaments around the globe.

Basically you go to a tournament and if they are authorized they will probably give you a USCF ID. It costs 30 dollars a year though. Once you have established the ID you get a member page like mine:
Then once you go to a big tournament like the Illinois Open you can get a FIDE account as well.
If you lose your rating goes up. If you lose to some one lower rated then you your rating goes down. Not so much if you lose to someone higher rated.

Titles
You can also get rating titles which are very good.

Rating rangeCategory
2700+World Championship contenders
2500–2700most Grandmasters (GM)
2400–2500most International Masters (IM) and some Grandmasters (GM)
2300–2400FIDE Masters (FM)
2200–2300FIDE Candidate Masters (CM), most national masters
2000–2200candidate masters, experts (USA)
1800–2000Class A, category 1
1600–1800Class B, category 2
1400–1600Class C, category 3
1200–1400Class D, category 4
below 1200novices

Wikipedia has a good article on ratings:

Well that is all for today!
Bye everyone and have a nice day
Yash B

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