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I am new to chess. I read about FIDE so my question is: How can I can play in a FIDE tournament or become a FIDE-rated player?

Is there any online process for that, or something else? Right now I only know about FIDE and not much about their process. Someone told me about FIDE but he was not very clear about them.

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How can I can play in a FIDE tournament

In exactly the same way you would a non-FIDE rated tournament. First enter. Then play.

How can I can become a FIDE-rated player?

To get a FIDE rating you need to score at least one draw against at least 5 FIDE rated opponents in FIDE rated tournaments with a performance rating of at least 1000 over a period of not more than 26 months.

Brian Towers
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  • I have not kept up to date, but in the United States, as recently as the 1990s, FIDE-rated tournaments were hard to find. Most tournaments I ever heard about were USCF-rated only, for some reason. U.S. chess players seemed to have the impression that FIDE ratings were a European thing. I wonder if that is still true. – thb May 23 '18 at 20:46
  • @brain how we can know about fide tournaments. is this any online process, website? – Pankaj Bisht May 24 '18 at 04:49
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    @PankajBisht FIDE rated tournaments have to be registered with FIDE at least 7 days in advance by the national federation and when registered they immediately appear on the FIDE website. For instance the tournaments for India are here - https://ratings.fide.com/tournament_list.phtml?moder=ev_code&country=IND. There is a search facility on the page which allows you to select other federations. – Brian Towers May 24 '18 at 08:27
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    how did the 1st FIDE rated people get their ratings since i guess no one really had FIDE ratings? awarded like base step in mathematical induction? – BCLC Oct 16 '21 at 11:23
  • @BCLC The process was described by Arpad Elo in his book "Rating of Chess Players - Past and Present". Basically, the results of the players against each other is calculated and re-calculated until there's no more significant changes. Then the calculated ratings are placed (collectively) at some preconceived level -- perhaps to become comparable to some other rating system. After that, it is business as usual. –  Dec 16 '22 at 17:38
  • @user30536 What? I mean the very 1st players to get FIDE ratings. Like did everyone just start 1200? – BCLC Jan 25 '23 at 22:05
  • @ BCLC: If you want the details (and there are details), please read Arpad Elo's book. –  Jan 26 '23 at 10:50
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To get a FIDE rating, all you need to do is play in a few FIDE rated tournaments. Many big open tournaments with lots of players are FIDE rated, so those would be a good bet. You can find these tournaments by just searching on Google "Chess Tournaments in x" where x is the region you live.

There is no online sign-up process necessary. Once you play 9 FIDE-rated games and score at least 3/9 (unless the rules have changed) then you'll have a FIDE rating.

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    And realistically speaking, if you are a beginner, scoring 3/9 in a big open tournament is unlikely at least for the tournaments I know. – user1583209 Nov 19 '19 at 15:17
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The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has several types of FIDE rating. The easiest FIDE rating to get is the online FIDE rating. For that purpose, FIDE has a website that is relative cheap because you only need to pay 25 Euros per year (25-30 U.S. Dollars).

These are the most important links:

https://chessarena.com/?popup=registration

https://chessarena.com/

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