Fide Titles Puns

I was thinking of opening with "I am a wealthy ambassador from Europe and have a proposition for you" but though it might sound a little too much like the Nigerian Prince opening which theory has shown typically doesn't work against many people.

There are hundreds of 1100-1400 rated players with the title and according to FIDE Rules getting a CM or a WCM titles requires a rating of at least 2200 and 2000 respectively. Are they just handing these titles out?

In a direct reply to Yan Nepomniachtchi's tweet on 1 July, FIDE has tweeted :

We are always open to suggestions and are happy to invite

@lachesisq

and all interested parties to attend two open Zoom meetings discussing proposals to change FIDE's rating and title regulations, organized by FIDE Qualification Commission. Registration: https://fide.com/news/1188

Link tweet : https://twitter.com/FIDE_chess/status/1412118778494787584

TL;DR 2 questions:

1. Who was the first candidate master? FIDE master? intentional master? woman candidate master? woman FIDE master? woman international master? woman grandmaster?
2. How do you know?

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Elaboration:

When I look up first FIDE master or even 'first ever FIDE master' on google, I mostly find just the 1st FMs of certain countries. eg Gerald Mphungu - malawi, Ricko Depaune - Nauru, Manish Hamal - Nepal, Peter Wong - Australia (but for composition).

Similar for WGM where I see Irene Kharisma Sukandar - indonesia, Janelle Mae Frayna - the philippines, Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi - India, etc

It seems that this information isn't readily available like you'd have to look up the archive of FIDE ratings for to see where 'FM' (or any other title) 1st shows up. This seems to be the case for CM: https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/21522/when-was-the-fide-title-of-candidate-master-first-awarded

But I have a feeling I'm just not using the right keywords but it's in some news article somewhere. For me, if I were going to create a new title for a sport then I think either sports writers would like to write about it or I'd have my people make an announcement.

(Plus if there are articles about the 1st ever FM or WGM from certain countries, then why not the 1st ever on Earth?)

I'm 37, I used to play chess back when I was in school; I wish I had kept it up, but circumstances dictate otherwise. Always, is it too late for me to start anew if I was to attain a rating of 2300 for a title like FIDE Master?

Cant post polls on r/chess so posting it here

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The FIDE arena titles for online play look really low, or am I missing something?

Arena Candidate Master is only over 1100 and Arena FIDE Master is only over 1400. On chess.com, I'm about 1650 (which I know isn't very good). How does that compare to FIDE arena?

On chess.com, 1100 players are really bad, hanging pieces, etc. 1400 players know a little but are easy for me to beat. Why are FIDE arena titles so low, or are FIDE ratings just a lot higher?

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Arena FIDE Master (AFM) is achieved by a series of 150 bullet games, 100 blitz games or 50 rapid games with a performance rating of over 1400.

Arena Candidate Master (ACM) is achieved by a series of 150 bullet games, 100 blitz games or 50 rapid games with a performance rating of over 1100

When the GM title was officially introduced by FIDE in 1950, 27 living players were conferred the title. In 1972 there were 88 GMs. Now there are over 1500 GMs. On the July 1972 rating list, the highest rated player is Bobby Fischer (2785). The next highest rated player is Spassky (2660). The top 14 players in the world have a rating of 2600 or above. On the February 2018 list, the top 6 players are higher than 2785, and there are well over a hundred 2600+ players.

Rating inflation and the increase in the number of titled players means that there is a large range of chess strength represented among players with the GM title. Put a top 10 player against a strong grandmaster (~2650) and you'd expect the top player to win about 50% of the time. Put a top 10 player against a weak grandmaster (2500-2550) and the top player would be the overwhelming favourite. Clearly this is not the case of a single dominant player, as Fischer was in 1972, or Kasparov in his prime years. Carlsen is the clear #1, but there are a good 10-15 players who would wipe the floor with an average or even strong GM.

Is this a reasonable justification for introducing a new title to make the world-class players stand out from the "merely" very strong players, in accordance with the original intention of the grandmaster title?

First of all sorry for possible grammar issues, english is not my native language. Last month I played at a tournament, and after 6 rounds my "live rating" was over 2200, but I lost the last round, and it dropped under 2200. Can I still ask for the CM title even though my highest fide rating is under 2200?

So earlier this year, I played in the Oceania Youth U16 and finished 3rd, qualifying for the CM. I've passed the rating prerequisite which is 2000 but I haven't heard back from FIDE yet. The president of my chess federation said it'll take a couple months but I've heard rumours that it could take over 17 months! I would like to know an approximation to how long the validation would take so I can manage my chess.com memebership accordingly.

Hi all

I think the ICC should recognise the FIDE CM title (>2200 at any point recorded officially in FIDE rating system).

This morning out fo the 4 GMs I played, I scored 2.5. I have had similar mornings with morning recently beating about 4 IMs and 1 GM and not a single loss in 8 games. However this also shows that blitz and rapid chess is a particular form of chess as well - in the UK I am ranked in the top 50 on Rapid chess. That is also a seperate issue to the one raised here. Some people actually specialise in blitz and rapid chess.

If the ICC displays FIDE titles they should consider in my view showing FIDE CMs. Even if no free membership or perks are associated with it, I feel it should be shown - as it is now on other servers like lichess.org, chess.com, etc.

I am actually a bit annoyed that basically because I peaked 50 points below the FM title (2300) in 1992 and never took FIDE that seriously after (one reason was the LLoyds bank masters stopped its sponsorship in the 90s), that I am now being discriminated to have to get over 2300 to have anything by my name. The FIDE CM title is an official title and I feel that servers who claim to respect FIDE titles should actually show them and not basically discrinimate based on a 100 point threshold from the FM title.

I do appreciate that the IM title and GM titles need more than just a high FIDE rating and are much harder to get. But given the ICC does show FM titles, why not show also CM titles ?! Only a small % of the population are FIDE titled, so would it help or harm the ICC in doing so?!

Feedback welcome from all

Hi all

Maybe there is some credibility in the FIDE online website with FIDE behind it - it is a lot more convenient than travelling around the world to tournaments.

The issues I see though include the potential for engine abuse or assistance. The lack of pain and effort in playing online also kind of makes it less worthwhile in a way to get the online titles.

Woody Allen had a quote like this:

"I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.”"

I feel the same about the FIDE online site - if it hasn't got the pain and effort of going to real life events, I am not sure I want to be a member there. I want to go to real events and be beating 12 year olds with low ratings for 99% of the game and be swindled- because that sort of pain is part of life. The joy of them punching the air in celebration of an apparent swindle move (even when they are still lost) but it distracts me anyway to blunder.

Or the pain to play completely underrated Japanese players that have started two years ago and have a fide rating of 1800 but have beaten IM's in earlier rounds. I want the pain of losing a tonne of rating points in proper FIDE Swiss tournaments - not controlled all-play-alls etc. Those all-play-alls are for the likes of Aronian who can lose 5 games and still be ranked 2 in the world after. Without pain it isn't worth anything right?! You want that feeling that days of mental effort have been totally wasted when you lose to someone underrated etc. You want that feeling of never wanting to see a chess board ever again, and prioritising a bombfire of all your chess books.

BTW I haven't actually played there yet, but see some increasing notifications about it.

What do you guys think?! Are you likely to try for a FIDE online title - or is it just too easy and also too open to all sorts of abuse to mean anything?!

I'm a novice at Reddit and have no idea how to submit a question for the AMA. Could someone more knowledgeable than me please ask Mr. Damore to clarify his FIDE Master title? There's a lot of confusion in the chess community as no one seems to be able to find anything other than some old USCF information. Thanks.

Personally I love online chess cuz I dont have much time for otb tournaments.. of course I am on chess club - I like to play mostly club vs club chess games and that's it .. I just notice that there is Oline Arena Titles and when you play against otb you will say that you get that title... I mean does it worth or just it's for saying that i am good on online chess ?

FIDE & Chess.com is kicking off the summer with the Women's Speed Chess Championship. This is a Four-Stage Mega-Event, and we will be featuring the various stages as they take place from June 18th to July 20th.

Today, we have Titled Swiss Tournament I. The format is 9 rounds events with time control 5 minutes + 1 second per move starting from move 1. The top 8 players from the Titled Swiss Tournament I will proceed to a second round the same day of a Playoff Qualifier I. This is a seeded, single elimination 2-game matches with time control 5 minutes + 1 second per move starting from move 1. The top 2 players will qualify for the Grand Prix.

The Grand Prix will include the 12 Qualifiers from Playoff Qualifiers + 9 additional players nominated by FIDE and Chess.com. There are four Grand Prix legs.

Finally, the two best players of the four Grand Prix legs will play a Super Final, for $6,500 for the winner and $3,500 for the runner-up.

The event is organised by Chess.com with the games played on Chess.com.

News Article. Pairings schedule and results can be found here.

Chess.com is streaming.. Please suggest other streams as they come in. Games start at 14:00 GMT, 10:00 EDT, and 7:00 PDT.

Commentary team: "Chess-Master Commentary."

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^(Note: this data was obtained from FIDE's website) ^(here)^(. Unfortunately, not all title applications listed were ultimately accepted, and for some inexplicable reason FIDE doesn't make it clear which ones weren't. Thus, a small number of GMs and IMs have been included in the chart even though their application was actually denied. I did, however, manually verify the titles for all the GMs aged 40+ and IMs aged 50+.)

There are hundreds of 2500-2800 rated players with the title and according to FIDE Rules getting a GM or a WGM titles requires a rating of at least 161660 and 161460 respectively. Are they just handing these titles out?

I was looking at titled players rating ascending, and I am shocked by what I saw.

How did they get their titles?