Hi, I am a club TD and am wanting to run my first tournament. However, I am a bit confused about the US Chess affiliate program. How do you become one, can you just be an affiliate by yourself, where is the forum to apply, ect.
HankAnzis
Feb 16, 2025
Greetings! What are some good resources to study GM games? I’m looking to study the Kings Indian Attack and the Kings Indian Defense.
Rooster-1992AIC
Feb 14, 2025
Here's a screenshot I took of a puzzle I was just solving.
In the past (i.e. before today), all I would see is just the position itself. Now that's that annoying coach guy at the side giving me a hint about the solution. Doesn't that just defeat the whole point of solving puzzles in the first place? I mean, the whole point is to be able to stare at a position cold without any hints whatsoever (because that's what you would need to do in a real game) and figure out the solution myself. Now we have this annoying coach guy who thinks he's some kind of a chess professor offering unsolicited advice.
Sorry for the rant. If any of you chess.com higher-ups are reading this, is there an option to get rid of this annoying coach guy from my puzzles and go back to the way things were?
Martin_Stahl
Jan 31, 2025
I played an online 10-minute rapid tournament around a week and a half ago or two weeks ago, and the ratings have still not come in. Does this normally take this long or is there something more that has to be done?
Martin_Stahl
Jan 22, 2025
@Martin_Stahl
11-30-2024 2:00 pm EST 34 players = 17 pairs
Round Open
Why is it that I only get to play 3 games out of 5
Final report 0/5 2 but only got to play 3 games
Supposedly I always get one bye even when equal number of pairs
Always get a message that I was disconnected but there is no device indication of being disconnected having 4 connection strength bars
Can you tell me what is going on?
BB9FE
Dec 1, 2024
Whatever happened to the emails notifying me/us about pending US CHESS tournaments on Monday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday?? I used to get these emails like clockwork; now I don't get them anymore. Is anyone else experiencing this??
BB9FE
Nov 14, 2024
For the last few weeks, when I try to analyze my games, the message "There was an error classifying the move" would often come up (see screenshot below). This happens whenever I try to analyze an alternate line that I did not play in the actual game. Sometimes Stockfish would still show the alternate lines anyway, sometimes it wouldn't.
Is there a way to resolve this? The whole point of analyzing my games is to look at alternate lines, so this is frankly quite annoying.
rodilihp
Nov 12, 2024
Can you win money in USCF online tournaments?
Strobex
Nov 4, 2024
For the last two weeks, none...this was the only day that Regular tournaments occurred...I have just a Provisional Rating in this category; just one tournament away from a Permanent rating. Yet now this is not possible because of the sudden and unexplained cessations of Saturday Tournaments...!!!...
Martin_Stahl
Nov 2, 2024
What does it take for a 1200 USCF regular rating to achieve a 1400 rating? Is it just natural ability at that point? How about to 1600? It seems to me understanding openings and end game strategies can only take you so far. What's the best way to train yourself to think two or more moves ahead? I seem to be stagnating and would like to break out.
chessprodigyDa1
Oct 18, 2024
So I just played in a USCF 10 Minute Tournament online yesterday, and I lost 4/5 games to people 1600 and over, but beat a 1570. When does the rating update to my USCF profile and are the people I beat and lost to chess.com ratings different from their online USCF ratings?
fpawn
Oct 17, 2024
In the most recent USCF 3/2 tournament, I signed up and forgot about it which caused me to lose by forfeiture. No big deal, if I play zero moves in the first round, I should be getting withdrawn. Except, it took 5 rounds for the server to withdraw me, during which I lost 80 CC blitz points and probably 100+ USCF
On one hand they're trivial online ratings that don't really matter, but at the same time it's annoying to not get withdrawn when I clearly should be. Has anyone else had this issue, and are these games going to be rated as forfeits or losses on USCF?https://www.chess.com/tournament/live/-us-chess-32-blitz-5103751?&players=2
Martin_Stahl
Oct 15, 2024
Hello,
I just wanted to ask whether the U1450 rating corresponds to only your Chess.com rating, or if let’s say for example my Chess.com rating is 800, but my US chess rating is 1500, then would I still be able to join the U1450, or would I need to go into the open?
I know it would ALLOW me into the U1450, but I don’t know if YOU guys allow it.
Rooster-1992AIC
Oct 8, 2024
They are too late at night for me in the east coast
Martin_Stahl
Sep 27, 2024
Hello. I was wondering if it costs money to join the club tournaments. When I look at online tournaments on the us chess website it says that there is an entree fee. Are the club tournaments advertised on the us chess website?
TeamCobyForLife
Sep 20, 2024
Some look like this: US Chess Blitz 3|2
and some look like this: *** US Chess Blitz 3|2
pawnjarts
Sep 17, 2024
So I was wondering if there are any regular length tournaments any more? Maybe I'm just not understanding the event schedule? Also, I used to play around a year ago and there were regular tournaments?
Rooster-1992AIC
Sep 12, 2024
i played in the us chess members only 5/0 blitz tournament on aug 26.2024 and it hasnt been rated. in previous events its been rated faster, and i was wondering whether it hasnt been rated for anyone else?
Dragonhead123
Sep 10, 2024
Is there a way to configure app Notifications for this club instead of email notifications for the tournaments?
I receive email notifications but I prefer to receive app notifications for this club.
BlunderingKnight101
Sep 7, 2024
