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Why would FIDE rate the games on anything other than December published rating?

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 05, 2023 7:24 pm

Chess results has John Nunn in first

And Mickey.

Just musing, but without referencing the game in particular, whilst an obvious upset, i don't see why a 2510 beating a 2840 with white in a massive Swiss where the stronger player is motivated to take risks by the nature of the tournament is such massive surprise or even necessarily a failure of the...

Lan Yao I see has the WGM application "open" at 2023 3rd FIDE Council, so she doesn't need the norm, hopefully she will win a board prize Good luck to all the players today Yes, it never hurts to have an extra norm in case there's an issue with one of the original three. I do hope that her playing ...

MJMcCready wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 03, 2023 8:48 pm

It could be man flu.

Women were affected too…

There have been reports of at least 30-40 players feeling unwell at the tournament. The word from the organisers is that this is a "light season virus" which should pass in a day or two with advice to rest and stay hydrated. They did extend board order submission by an hour today to allow captains ...

The distance between any two countries is the same in both directions.

When an enormous proportion of the field have low ratings (for GM norm purposes sub 2200 which is c60%) it's simplistic to just say that it's all fine because you can just disregard a couple of games. Short of having a near perfect tournament (and that means winning games with white and black - even...

The existence of women’s titles does not harm men in any way (in fact, they do the opposite - for the reason you give - more titles players). So the only purpose for getting rid of them IMO would be if there was an established consensus (led by women I might add) that their existence harms women and...

Why hasn't that been happening in the last ten years (or perhaps much longer) then? One might also incidentally point out that transgender women have the right to use female bathrooms under UK law. Banning them from female only tournaments would have no impact on that. I wonder if bans from female ...

Well the bottom line is that that if FIDE allows transgender people to compete in women's sections and from that they can share the same bathroom, there are hundreds, if not thousands, if not tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of men around the world, that will claim to be a woman so t...

Whatever the rules say (which is obviously rather important!) I would have thought that the simple argument against rating Armageddon games is that they are, by design (not incidentally as can be the case eg. in the last round of a tournament) played with different results meaning different things t...

Grounds for "special treatment" given...

Mark Howitt wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 06, 2023 12:03 pm

I have way more than average UK person and am tight with it

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It was advertised by the ECF as FIDE rated The semi finals were The Rating report on the FIDE website for the final seems to show 12 players each having drawn Ok, thanks Mick. So all the wins not submitted or missed out for some reason. Not just that Peter hadn’t played a rated game since the 1960s...

Anyone know if the National Stages were FIDE rated?