how to get a fide rating?

It can take a while for the event to be listed on the FIDE website. I think the second event I played in took a few weeks.

thanks Martin

The website for that tourney doesn't show it is FIDE rated and it isn't listed on the FIDE website.

I am not sure where to find FIDE tournaments, we just have them at our chess club once a year, there are special conditions for it to qualify, such as it must have a certain number of people with existing FIDE ratings, forfeits are bad, not sure you can have more then two or the event does not count. Chat to your local chess club organiser to confirm if they run any or know of a club that does. you need 9 games to get the FIDE rating.

I read anything new that I have posted in before. 

It's easy. They made a link to find stuff you posted in 

For other things, memory or Google. Add to that a site that works well on a mobile browser,  makes it easy to get on during downtimes and post.

The should say if they are FIDE rated on the USCF site but they also have to be listed on the FIDE site 30 days in advance. I don't believe there is a way to search for them on the USCF site.

Problem is, you have to have a Senior level TD, or higher and pay additional fees per section rated ($60 I think). It is also best to have at least a third of the players with established FIDE ratings based on the way the rating systems works.

I actually thought most of the CCA events were FIDE rated (at least the Open sections).

Ohio Chess Congess is FIDE rated in the Open section.

http://ohchess.org/List%20View%20All%20Events.html

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If you score well enough and face players with established FIDE ratings you will. FIDE has some pretty strict regulations and just playing in a FIDE rated event is not enough.

Out of 5 games and you have to play a certain number of players with established FIDE ratings. At the event that @feathes99 is playing at, it is very possible the requirements will be met.

For someone like me, I have to travel to a lot of tourneys, and get lucky to play enough FIDE rated players. My last FIDE rated event, I think I only played one player with an established rating. Scored 2.5 points in the event and 3 of the other 4 players had established ratings after the event.

I'll have to look how many other FIDE events I played in; I'm pretty sure my first was a Rapid event where I only played one game as a house player.

The question was how to get a FIDE rating (and has been asked a few times). My more recent reply, that you then replied to, was to clarify that just playing in a FIDE rated event isn't enough to get a rating. In areas without sufficient FIDE rated players and events, it isn't easy to get a rating. That was my point.

I very seriously doubt national ratings will go away. It costs $60 US to rate each section of an event under FIDE, requires a FIDE arbiter, which in the US is at least a Senior level TD which has specific event directing experience requirements in regards to the number of players. Only popular areas get access to enough players that have FIDE ratings and an authorized arbiter in order to even hold a FIDE rated event.

In many areas it is a chicken and egg issue. If an event doesn't pull enough players with established ratings, then no one in the event will be rated. They will pool multiple events over a 26 month period to meet the requirements but even then it is harder to get if you don't travel or already live in an area that has the events already.

Can you cite a source for this? It's something I've never heard from anyone else and can't find any information related to it through a quick Google search.