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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 ...
In 2006 economists Charles C. Moul and John V. C. Nye used Chessmetrics to determine the "expected" results of games, and wrote: Ratings in chess that make use of rigorous statistics to produce good estimates of relative player strength are now relatively common, but comparing ratings across different time periods is often complicated by idiosyncratic changes (cf. Elo, 1968 for the pioneering ...
Arpad Elo was a chess master and an active participant in the United States Chess Federation (USCF) from its founding in 1939. [4] The USCF used a numerical ratings system devised by Kenneth Harkness to enable members to track their individual progress in terms other than tournament wins and losses.
At junior high school IS 318 in New York City, he was a member of the team that won the K-8 junior high school national championship in 2010 and the first middle school team to win the K-12 high school national championship in 2012. Williams was featured as the star player of his junior high school chess team in the 2012 documentary Brooklyn ...
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
In 1955, Bloodgood played a number of chess games against actor Humphrey Bogart, who was a good amateur player. [3] [better source needed] Bloodgood was an active chess organizer in Hampton Roads, Virginia in the late 1950s. He was the rating statistician for the Virginia State Chess Federation, where he rated himself at an Elo rating of 1956.
A player's performance rating in a series of games is the Elo rating a player would need to have to expect to get their actual total score against the opponents they faced in those games. A practical way to understand the performance rating centers around the fact that a player's actual rating changes after each game played.