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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 ...
The United States Chess Federation (also known as US Chess or USCF [1]) is the governing body for chess competition in the United States and represents the U.S. in The World Chess Federation (FIDE). USCF administers the official national rating system , awards national titles, sanctions over twenty national championships annually, and publishes ...
Rochelle Ballantyne (born 1995) is an American chess player. She is best known for appearing in the 2012 documentary Brooklyn Castle. Her USCF rating is 1988, putting her in the 99th percentile of American junior players. [1] Her FIDE rating is 1912, [2] with her highest rating achieved being 1954
He has a peak FIDE rating of 2420. When Williams was 12 years old, he became the youngest African American to earn the US Chess Federation (USCF) title of National Master (NM), surpassing Kassa Korley and since surpassed by several players, including current record-holder Brewington Hardaway.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... move to sidebar hide. USCF may refer to: United States Chess Federation, the governing body for chess ...
The question of whether ratings have inflated or deflated for the average player may have a different answer from the question of whether ratings have inflated or deflated for top player. Here are a couple of sources" Intrinsic Chess Ratings; Elo oddities: the tortoise and the hare ; The Elo rating system – correcting the expectancy tables
The language of USCF rule 14D4 does indeed correspond to the language of FIDE rule 5.2.2. But the USCF rule does not call this a "dead position". The USCF also has rules for "Insufficient Material to Win on Time" (14E), which are completely separate from "Insufficient Material to continue" (14D), and do not recognize dead positions.
The Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship is the foremost intercollegiate team chess championship in the Americas.Hosted in part by the United States Chess Federation, the Pan-Am Intercollegiate is open to any team comprising four players and up to two alternates from the same post-secondary school (university, college, community college) in North America, Central America, South ...