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Determining the World Chess Champion after fourteen games and a handful of rapid games fits the era in which we live: a news "feed" instead of a newspaper, baseball games have a clock (!), hyper bulle…

I have played 117 classical games and still have a provisional rating. How many games does one have to play to have the question mark removed from one's rating? Thank you.

I have played 187 classical games and still have a provisional rating. How many games in each time control does one have to play in order to achieve an actual rating. I ask because, for good reason, m…

1) He doesn't play insipid electronic music in the background 2) He explains clearly, even in bullet games, what he is doing and why 3) He wins graciously; when he loses, he loses graciously: how many…

thanks for the helpful information. did not know this....

A simple question: I lost to a player (by checkmate) rated 90 points higher than I am. I lost four points, he or she gained 27. Next game, I defeated a player rated 90 points less than myself: I gaine…

As a weak player (hopeless at blitz), I am eager to improve. Aside from the usual blunders, I often find myself losing due to vulnerabilities on my king side, both as white and black. I only play trad…

The only thing worse than wasting days and days playing on-line chess is wasting time and lots of money joining some dumb organization like USCF (which you have to do to play in tournaments in the US)…

Not sure the generalization--"1200 [players] are better than 1500 [players]" is supported by this single game. You played well; your opponent had a bad game. That's about all one can say. In general I…