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I am smart, but when I make a dumb mistake I go like:" OH MER.."
@VCQueen said in #24:
> Thank you so much @zikalify. I did it! I have got an FIDE rating! So happy thank you.
Here's South Africa's chess body en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_South_Africa
If you want an official FIDE rating you will need to look through their website and find out about a local chess club and from there get involved in FIDE rated tournaments. Looking at your approx rating of 883, I would say you're not ready for club level chess just yet. When that calculator says you're about 1200 then I'd think about it and you'd be one of the weaker club members.
A good way to improve your skill is to go to Lichess > Watch > Video Library and select the Fundamentals OR Beginner and Endgame tags together. Everyone is focused on the opening with their cool nicknames (IE Sicilian Defence, Italian game etc) but if you don't know endgames you will needlessly lose games that you would have otherwise won.
> Thank you so much @zikalify. I did it! I have got an FIDE rating! So happy thank you.
Here's South Africa's chess body en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_South_Africa
If you want an official FIDE rating you will need to look through their website and find out about a local chess club and from there get involved in FIDE rated tournaments. Looking at your approx rating of 883, I would say you're not ready for club level chess just yet. When that calculator says you're about 1200 then I'd think about it and you'd be one of the weaker club members.
A good way to improve your skill is to go to Lichess > Watch > Video Library and select the Fundamentals OR Beginner and Endgame tags together. Everyone is focused on the opening with their cool nicknames (IE Sicilian Defence, Italian game etc) but if you don't know endgames you will needlessly lose games that you would have otherwise won.
@VCQueen said in #27:
> I found out how off it is. I saw one user’s FIDE rating and I calculated his and it was 20 over so if you do use that website that @zikalify sent then subtract 20 from that score. Simple.
This page explains how the web page works out the rating: ethanlebowitz.github.io/RatingConverter/about.html
> I found out how off it is. I saw one user’s FIDE rating and I calculated his and it was 20 over so if you do use that website that @zikalify sent then subtract 20 from that score. Simple.
This page explains how the web page works out the rating: ethanlebowitz.github.io/RatingConverter/about.html
not bad
"I beat a guy in fifteen moves with Black who then beat Kasparov twice, in 17 and 26 moves."
Not as impressive as it sounds but to fans of the Queen's Gambit it explains it well enough.
In 1985 a friend of mine and I ran into Vinny Livermore at the Union Square OTB, and the friend asked how good Livermore was.
"He beats me the way I beat you."
My friend shook his head.
Oddly, in that race, Livermore's horse, Bee Laughing, lost by a nose to...Mt. Livermore.
Not as impressive as it sounds but to fans of the Queen's Gambit it explains it well enough.
In 1985 a friend of mine and I ran into Vinny Livermore at the Union Square OTB, and the friend asked how good Livermore was.
"He beats me the way I beat you."
My friend shook his head.
Oddly, in that race, Livermore's horse, Bee Laughing, lost by a nose to...Mt. Livermore.
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