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A chess rating system is a system used in chess to estimate the strength of a player, based on their performance versus other players. They are used by organizations such as FIDE, the US Chess Federation (USCF or US Chess), International Correspondence Chess Federation, and the English Chess Federation. Most of the systems are used to ...
[1] In Rethymnon, Nikolas Theodorou attended high school. He was an excellent student and in 2018 he graduated from the Experimental High School of Rethymnon. From a very young age (2007) Nikolas Theodorou started chess lessons at the Chess Club of Rethymno. Since 2015 he has been a student of the Chania Chess Academy.
FIDE publishes lists of highest-rated girl chess players; a "girl" is defined as being a player who is aged under 20 at the start of the year, and female. The following is a list of the players ranked number one girl in the FIDE rating system from January 2000 to the present day, along with their ratings during the periods in question.
Crowther, Mark (17 December 2007), THE WEEK IN CHESS 684: Greek Championships, London Chess Center; 2003 results Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine from chess.gr; 2005 results Archived 2015-09-23 at the Wayback Machine from chess.gr; 2007 results [permanent dead link ] from fide.com
Helgi Áss Grétarsson (born 18 February 1977) is an Icelandic chess grandmaster (GM). [1] In 1994 he won the World Junior Chess Championship under 20. [2] [3] One year prior to that he played as a goalkeeper for the Icelandic national soccer team in the 1993 UEFA European Under-16 Championship.
The following people have all been grandmasters (GM) of chess.The title is awarded to players who have met the standards required by the sport's governing body, FIDE.Other than world champion, it is the highest title a chess player can attain and is awarded for life, although FIDE regulations allow for the revocation of titles for cheating or fraud.
In chess, where results are simply win/loss or draw, strength of schedule is the idea behind the methods based on the games already played: that the player that played the harder competition to achieve the same number of points should be ranked higher. In other games, results may supply more data used for breaking ties.
Lombardy, William (2011), Understanding Chess: My System, My Games, My Life, New York: Russell Enterprises, ISBN 978-1-93649-022-6; Morse, Jeremy (1995), Chess Problems: Tasks and Records, Faber and Faber, ISBN 0-571-15363-1 Concentrates on maximum tasks and records. Sergeant, Philip (1934), A Century of British Chess, Philadelphia: David McKay ...