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ESP-918

Can you please tell me in details of how to get an official CM title if....

1. I've never been enroled or have an official rating or played FIDE tournament.

How many games do I have to play to get a tittle? Just one tournament? Can it be a blitz tournament or it has to be rapid, classic or I can choose and whatever I choose if I win I still get a tittle so it doesn't matter, is it?

How strong my players would be, what's the percentage or how many games to win minimum and etc....

I'm very interesting as in a near future I'm aiming to get a CM title this year preferably.

Cherub_Enjel

What you should be asking is: the details of how to enroll in your first FIDE OTB tournament. 

I've never heard of someone wanting to be a master in something (in this case, classical OTB chess) that they've never ever done before - you've only played blitz games on the site, and it's very very different to play a single game that's 6+ hours (and 7+ if your clock breaks during the game, and the TD has to spend 15 minutes finding a replacement before the game can continue, as happened to me once). 

 

Also, judging by your 3+0 performance, it's going to take a lot more than this year to get a CM title - you do realize that's 2200 FIDE, and pretty much every player of that level has at least around a 2200 blitz rating on this site... 

NationalPatzer

go for it. I believe you need an established Fide which you will get after 25 official games. also I believe you need a 2200+ rating. don't quote me on that, but that's the ballpark of what you need. Have fun playing OTB it is, by far, my favorite way to play chess!

macer75
2Q1C wrote:

CM is easy to get 2200.

IM is harder 2300

GM takes a lot of work, 2500 and norms.

Yeah, a 2200 FIDE rating is easy.

ESP-918

Some people are so naive and young , obviously I don't play just here, JUST blitz. I relax here playing half my strength here for various reasons.

My club rating in blitz is 2050 OTB that's against pool of lowest rated players being 2000+ .

Even here you can see when I play a bit more serious my best wins against 2100+ players not just once but numerous time, and not time games but actually quality games.

Any way long story short I'm very experienced player in blitz , rapid and classic and even 960, bUT of course not quite 2200 yet but very close to it.

If I'm in my best shape and I play 2200 player say 10 games whatever time control I can gerante you I will win at least 4 games out of 10 , from 4 to 6 games max I would say.

ESP-918

2Q1C wrote:

CM is easy to get 2200.

IM is harder 2300

GM takes a lot of work, 2500 and norms.

2300 is FM master not an IM

IM is 2400+

GM_chess_player

Well you need to get 2200 to be a CM

ESP-918

Please don't post if you don't know much and just saying staff like : oh I've heard you need to be 2200+ , or I think you need to win 5 oh wait 10 , no maybe 20 games , or staff like , getting a IM is easy which is 2300 only but GM is harder .

None of that crap please 🔞🔞🔞.

I want to hear an answer from a knowledgeable adult who's been to alot of turnaments and knows the procedure or a titled player himself who knows from his own experience.

Gosh people please⚠ ☝🔞

president_max

https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=174&view=article

ESP-918

President _max 👏👍

Cherub_Enjel
ESP-918 wrote:

Please don't post if you don't know much and just saying staff like : oh I've heard you need to be 2200+ , or I think you need to win 5 oh wait 10 , no maybe 20 games , or staff like , getting a IM is easy which is 2300 only but GM is harder .

None of that crap please 🔞🔞🔞.

I want to hear an answer from a knowledgeable adult who's been to alot of turnaments and knows the procedure or a titled player himself who knows from his own experience.

Gosh people please⚠ ☝🔞

 

The way is simple - achieve a *published* FIDE OTB rating of 2200 at some point, and apply for the title via FIDE, which you'll know easily how to do once you've played in FIDE tournaments. The application may take a while to get approved, but once it is, you're titled. 

The title is permanent, I believe, once you attain it (since there are literally 1700s who are CMs, which is absolutely ridiculous - they obviously got the title through a special procedure). 

 

But there's no way you're close to 2200 FIDE. I relax when I play here, and I don't play like a 1500 FIDE on average. Have you seen your games? And you're an experienced blitz player, having thousands of games, so it's not like speed chess is new to you. 

 

But if what you're saying is true - that you can consistently beat/play well against 2000+ FIDE players (who by the way would easily be 2000+ blitz here - while you score about 45% against 1800s, the go for it, and ignore everything I've said wink.png

You will soon be the lowest rated blitz CM on this website, even lower rated than the 1700 FIDE CMs I was talking about...

Martin_Stahl

 

Yep, 2200+ and it has to be at regular OTB time controls, not Rapid or Blitz. There is another other way to get the title though, such as scoring well in certain events.

 

https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=173&view=article

Cherub_Enjel

One of the 1700 "CMs" on this website: https://www.chess.com/member/akinov-akinseye

But you'll notice even he's an 1800 blitz player, which is about right for his rating.

Also, if you're from Russia, they tend to not give out free CM titles like they do to players in other countries...

Erik_02

There used to be a 1600 rapid rated CM on here. I played him on an old account. Don't remember his username, Kenny... Something lol.

Cherub_Enjel

lol I just discovered a 1700 daily rated CM, who's like 1200 blitz and 1500 rapid.

masterfowler

in South Africa if you win the junior national closed tournament in your age group you get awarded the CM title...so its not uncommon for us to have 1400 rated CMs here...dont think its a FIDE title though

tillchess64
ESP-918 wrote:

2Q1C wrote:

CM is easy to get 2200.

IM is harder 2300

GM takes a lot of work, 2500 and norms.

 

 

2300 is FM master not an IM

IM is 2400+

 IM needs also 3 norms . Just read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_titles 

tillchess64
masterfowler wrote:

in South Africa if you win the junior national closed tournament in your age group you get awarded the CM title...so its not uncommon for us to have 1400 rated CMs here...dont think its a FIDE title though

 

CM is a Fide title. 

TheTacticalBeast

cm title is awarded by getting  top 3 places in a foreign tournament

mushrif14

Don't know:)