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Subject: Re: How did you manage to play in such strong tourney being Unrated?

Author: Rafael Vasquez

Date: 19:23:38 06/09/02

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On June 09, 2002 at 03:43:59, Uri Blass wrote:

Hello Uri,

Yes, the tournament was only 9 rounds and not all the players were rated.
Maybe I have to play more tournaments to get rated.(Not a priority)

Rafael

>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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