There are actually many hidden players who are actually titled players, like the user Junior, who should be a GM.
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junior used to be Ilya Gurevich in the olden days
Well it dosen't say he is a GM, he has not submitted proof.
It is relatively fair. In special cases such as my own it seems unfair but cannot make rules for special situations.
ponz111 wrote:
Many many years ago I was sorta of cheated from becoming a USCF master--this was 40 years ago and for 40 years my USCF rating has been exactly
2188--does this mean if I decide to play and get that USCF rating to 2200 I could be a diamond member free?
How were you cheated?
He wasn't; he didn't work hard enough.
Abhishek2 sure.....
Abhishek 2 if you make up something to post that may not be true, sometimes it may bite you?
It's just a theory. I'm just saying you need to work hard to reach 2200.
Abhishek2 Sorry, I could have sworn you said "He was'nt; he didn't work hard enough."
I reached that goal [2200 USCF] theoretically 39 years ago. Also I reached higher than 2500 FIDE rating--I pay for my chess.com membership. I was unlucky to say the least... But rules are rules and sometimes no exceptions.
WHOA. Aren't you supposed to be like, a CM or an NM?
Hi, Abhishek2
I do not have any title at all partially due to some unusual circumstances. Unless one thinks winning the United States Correspondence Chess Championship is a "title" [but not the kind of "title" they want for free membership at chess.com.]
Why not just go to some local tournament and get like, 20 points?
Because there are no local tournaments and because I am so disabled I cannot drive and would, for sure, not be able to get to any chess tournament and play.
I reached a rating of 2188 and then won two tournaments outright [they were 4 round tournaments] with a score of 4 wins no losses and no draws in both tournaments and still I have not reached 2200. [this was back in 1973 after I played in the US Open and had a nice tournament including winning from the Chicago Champ and drawing Andrew Karklins and drawing a former Illiois champ and winning from a former United States Champ.]
You can have someone else drive you.
All, I can say is that you do not know the extent of my disabilities or you would not say that. However, 39 years ago when I was virtually robbed of my USCF master title I started doing very well in correspondence chess and decided it was my first love and it didn't matter so much my over-the-board rating and I forgave the person who kept me from being a USCF master and it was then all correspondence chess.
Now, in retrospect, if I had known 39 years ago it would come to a future situation where I needed that USCF piece of paper or it would cost me a few hundred $--then maybe or probably I would have tried to do something about the situation.
ponz111 wrote:
Abhishek2 Sorry, I could have sworn you said "He was'nt; he didn't work hard enough."
I reached that goal [2200 USCF] theoretically 39 years ago. Also I reached higher than 2500 FIDE rating--I pay for my chess.com membership. I was unlucky to say the least... But rules are rules and sometimes no exceptions.
Really? If you have ever had a FIDE rating over 2300 you can get the FM title.
http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=58&view=article (1.3)
Hi Piphilologist
I needed 3 more games to make my FIDE rating official. As it turned out they were rating the preliminary round of the United States Correspondence Chess Championship but my earlier play in that format was not rated. [Where I did very well] Also, later I became so ill and disabled that I was diagnosed with Alzheimers
For a long time I became so disabled I could not play. Now I could play that kind of format [I cannot play over-the-board] but I think it is too late to get those three game?.
If it were not too late I think I would play in some correspondence tournament just to get my official rating. But I understand an official FIDE correspondence rating does not give me a title anyway?
Hi Tubester, not that i like to discuss my disabilities but I have brain damage which does affect my over the board ability--I can play and find moves but it takes a long time. [I have an enormous amout of chess knowledge stored however] I am in a situation where I cannot sleep, if you notice I post 24 hours a day. I will not describe my problems with pain but pain keeps me from sleeping more than an hour at a time. [pain wakes me up and for a while I can hardly move] On the other hand I can be playing a 15 minute per side game and will often slump off to sleep. My average is 3 hours sleep in each 24 hour period--one hour sleep and then wake up due to pain and other problems so I do not get much rem sleep. All this affects my ability at 15 minute chess which I play and other chess. If I have time I can figure out anything and have figured out how to counter recently published refutations of the Ponziani. Sorry to be so morbid.
lol.