![]() ![]() The challenge comes when trying to help these new, and many experienced players, put their online activity into a real world perspective! When everyone started staying at home, guess what game’s popularity soured? That’s right chess! Then we had the outstanding movie, “Queens Gambit” by Netflix! I think it is TVMA! Do not let anyone through K-12 watch this movie alone!! The interest sparked is good for chess. This may take some time though.The last year and a half has been absolutely devastating. It is very likely, and I would bet on it, that in future all most popular online servers will offer calculating the official rating too. As an example if you consistently keep your online rating above 2000 you will become an Arena Grand Master (AGM). You earn these titles for online play but the cool thing is that they are valid for life and you can use them in over the board play as well. ![]() Official info here and some basic info here. It does not work the other way around.Ī very little known fact so far is that FIDE has introduced new players titles, so called FIDE Titles for the Lower Rating Band. Even better they are linked - every time a new FIDE rating list for over the board play is published this rating is incorporated in the online rating (in other words games played over the boards count to the online rating too). The killer feature is that it calculates official FIDE rating, which is calculated the same way as the official rating for over the board play thus they are directly comparable. I have not tried it so I cannot comment on how good the interface is but I assume it is good. A quick introduction is here and the arena is at There is one (and so far only one) place where you can get the official FIDE rating - the FIDE Online Arena. ![]()
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