Easiest way to become a US National Master

If you haven't played any games, your USCF rating is simply "unrated" (even if you have a FIDE rating).

Like Glicko the first few games have a multiplier that makes your rating increase and decrease much more than normal. As far as I know that stops after 20 games at which time your rating is said to no longer be provisional.

As far as I know you need to have played least 20 games to get the title. So I think the easiest way would be to play people rated around 1600 to 1800 and win all your games.

FIDE rated players are not considered unrated and it would take 26 games (the 26th game moves the rating from provisional to established) be awarded the title, unless the FIDE rating gives some game credit (which it does for the rating formula).

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/easiest-way-to-become-a-us-national-master-1

Hmm, I know there are many unofficial conversion formulas that help players guess what they might be rated (from USCF to FIDE and vice versa) but I've never heard of anything official.

And at least in the past, when I've seen FIDE players play their first USCF event they're listed as unrated.

If the tournament is dual rated, then on the pairing sheet the TD may have their FIDE rating listed in parenthesis or something.

Git gud

The rulebook has a conversion formula to use for pairings and the official rating document has the conversion formula for initializing a rating as posted in the other topic.

A player that has any official rating in the format of a tourney, should never be paired as unrated.

Ok, thanks for the info.

Thanks for the info, and will my K factor be 40 too (Like fide) for my first 26games?