Author: Uri Blass
Date: 00:43:59 06/09/02
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On June 08, 2002 at 23:15:17, Rafael Vasquez wrote: >On June 08, 2002 at 18:31:10, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >>On June 08, 2002 at 13:27:42, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>Hi Jorge, >>> >>>I am unrated :( >>>But I played in the Curacao International Open Last Year (with / GM´s and >>>many IM´s. I did 5.5 of 9. Jan Timman won the tournament with 7 of 9. I was >>>tied in 9th place and received money prize. The GM Ilan Manor from Israel >>>did 5.5 points also. I was very happy to be at only 1.5 points behind of >>>Jan Timman!. In round 3 I played my first game against a GM (Bartolomiej >>>Macieja from Polland) which I lose. I got autographs from all the Gm´s,Im´s >>>and every player whom wished to sign my little book bougth specialy for that >>>event. I also took videos with my handycam. >>> >>>Regards >> >>In view of the fact that you played in a tournament, it seems unlikely that you >>do not now have a provisional rating. The only exception would be if the >>tournament itself were unrated, which seems highly improbable considering who >>played in your tournament. >> >>Do a little checking. You will probably be very pleased at what you discover. >>In fact, you could easily have a **provisional** rating above 2800. If it was >>FIDE sponsored, you may already have a FIDE provisional rating. >> >>I once was given an amusing/amazing provisional rating of a strong master in >>correspondence chess. That rating was higher than anyone else's I was paired >>against! At that time I had only played a few correspondence games in my life. >>I was actually a beginner at correspondence chess. Although I fully realized >>that my rating was completely bogus, it made me happy anyway and was good enough >>to get me entered in a masters-only tournament [where I was also seeded as top >>board]!!! >> >>Bob D. >Bob, > >I checked in the Fide website and I dont appear in the rating search. >Maybe it has to be because of I had not payed the wage to Fide (you have to pay >something like an annuality). > >Rafael No It may be if you did not play enough games against players with fide rating(I think that you need 9 games against players with fide rating and if one of your opponents had no fide rating then it is enough for you not to get a fide rating.. Another explanation is if the tournament is a new tournament so Fide did not update it and in this case you may appear in the next fide rating. Uri
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