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Sum1_5968
jetoba wrote:

The ratings must have been reached but do not need to have been kept.

2200 FIDE for CM

2200 USCF for NM (USA flagged 14-year-old male player requesting)

2300 FIDE for FM

2400 FIDE plus three IM norms for IM

2500 FIDE plus three GM norms for GM

CM, FM, IM and GM also have direct title options that reduce the rating requirement by 200. The Pan American youth is in Orlando next month and tying for first in U16 would give the FM title (once reaching 2100) and taking the gold in U18 would give the IM title (once reaching 2200) while silver or bronze would give the FM title (once reaching 2100). There are other such tournaments that can be used as well. The past year's massive FIDE lower-level upward rating adjustments make such ratings more plausible to reach.

https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/B01DirectTitles2024

FIDE? You mean ELO?

jetoba
Sum1_5968 wrote:
jetoba wrote:

The ratings must have been reached but do not need to have been kept.

2200 FIDE for CM

2200 USCF for NM (USA flagged 14-year-old male player requesting)

2300 FIDE for FM

2400 FIDE plus three IM norms for IM

2500 FIDE plus three GM norms for GM

CM, FM, IM and GM also have direct title options that reduce the rating requirement by 200. The Pan American youth is in Orlando next month and tying for first in U16 would give the FM title (once reaching 2100) and taking the gold in U18 would give the IM title (once reaching 2200) while silver or bronze would give the FM title (once reaching 2100). There are other such tournaments that can be used as well. The past year's massive FIDE lower-level upward rating adjustments make such ratings more plausible to reach.

https://handbook.fide.com/chapter/B01DirectTitles2024

FIDE? You mean ELO?

ELO is a way of calculating ratings (like Glicko and Glicko-2). FIDE (Federation Internacional de Echess) is the organization that uses its (ELO-based) ratings to determine when to award titles. You can have a high ELO-based rating in any system but only FIDE gives GM/WGM/IM/WIM/FM/WFM/CM/WCM. Various countries can give NM based on their rating systems (ELO or Glicko or something else).

ChessMasteryOfficial

Remember that titles are great, but the most important aspect is to enjoy the game and find fulfillment in your progress.

25SENSE

2200 FIDE

25SENSE
TheNameofNames wrote:

pursue something else

@thenameofnames how about he pursues what he wants, and you pursue touching grass

Marcus_Aureliusss

o^

LordDathedr

damn its getting heated here

if someone reads this, you got it, keep going and #1 thing is enjoying the game

ive played ~500 hours (give or take a hundred or two) and no one can do 500 hours of something they don't enjoy, and my road isn't finished. It's not about some imaginary rating points in tournaments. If you hit a slump, learn a new opening, play a different time control, or just take a break. It's just a game.

25SENSE
LordDathedr wrote:

damn its getting heated here

if someone reads this, you got it, keep going and #1 thing is enjoying the game

ive played ~500 hours (give or take a hundred or two) and no one can do 500 hours of something they don't enjoy, and my road isn't finished. It's not about some imaginary rating points in tournaments. If you hit a slump, learn a new opening, play a different time control, or just take a break. It's just a game.

Here’s what I want to add. If you lose twice in a row, you’re tilting. Stop playing chess for the day. rating decline isn’t the issue. The raging is. You can’t enjoy something you normally enjoy if you’re mad while doing it, which will make you lose a lot more games and you won’t like it. Stop the snowball before it goes any further and just have fun!

Laurel

a long time ago I was curious about what rapid rating is equivalent to NM strength so I took 100 randomly selected NMs, found the average of their rating, and the data showed that the average rapid rating was about 2337 rapid (which rounds to 2350)