That is where my movie typically ends. I know that over-the-board (OTB) ratings (mainly USCF or FIDE) are the toughest rating pools, but chess.com seems to be the next toughest rating pool and probably the toughest pool of players for online chess. I never had the ego in me to play...
And when you see Eric, what a real chess player does, how they think through you realize why chess is an important game. It’s not because it’s just another game. It’s a game. Forces you to think, what is he going to do? What is she going to do next? What am I going to...
Actually, FIDE did have something similar for ordinary doping (don't know if it's still active), with one of the few suspensions for doping was a woman of about 1900-rating who had better things to do than provide a urine sample to the inspectors at her door... But if FIDE can ta...
Bughouse(highest rating achieved) Worker Bee- You played your 1st game of Bughouse! Hive Mind- You played 10 games of Bughouse! Four Player chess: Dangerous Intersection- You played your 1st game of Four Player chess! Battle Royale- Wow! You played 10 games of Four Player chess! 3. Puzzle...
Lots of people have asked me why I’m called the “Chess Queen”, so I decided to write an illustrated post about it. It all started in 2001, when I was 17 years old. My rating was 2469 and I had the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and Men International Master (IM). ...
Lots of people have asked me why I’m called the “Chess Queen”, so I decided to write an illustrated post about it. It all started in 2001, when I was 17 years old. My rating was 2469 and I had the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and Men International Master (IM). ...
Lots of people have asked me why I’m called the “Chess Queen”, so I decided to write an illustrated post about it. It all started in 2001, when I was 17 years old. My rating was 2469 and I had the titles of Woman Grandmaster (WGM) and Men International Master (IM). ...
who translated Fischer’s My Sixty Memorable Games for a Russian edition before himself emigrating, later said Gulko was the best known of the Soviet citizens denied the opportunity to emigrate. Or, as the joke went, Gulko was the best chessplayer among the “refuseniks” and the most experien...
Class A Player I have a peakchessrating of 1934, which puts me at a Class A rating, just beneath expert. I have won multiplechesstournaments in Southern California and Las Vegas. I have hundreds ofchessbooks to create lessons and have... ...
Much more men play chess than women and with a rating of 2658 Hou Yifan is the world's number one women player but on the world ranking list she is on place 85. The numbers alone suggest that there is a gender gap in chess. But why? And how should the chess world deal with this...