Hi, I've played a couple of USCF OTB tournaments maybe 3 years ago and quit. I would say that I'm not a good chess player, or at least not close to getting a title, but I've been wanting to start training to get a title or something. From what I see, there are multiple titles USCF awards and I was wondering if there were different "time controls" like FIDE, and if the titles are only awarded when you reach a certain rating in that time control. Also, are "candidate masters" in FIDE and USCF different? I'm assuming they are because apparently you need to reach 2000 for USCF and 2200 for FIDE so that was super confusing.
Titles are only awarded for OTB Regular rated play. CM for US Chess is different than FIDE CM. The latter is closer to the US Chess NM title (and both are 2200+)
Hi, I've played a couple of USCF OTB tournaments maybe 3 years ago and quit. I would say that I'm not a good chess player, or at least not close to getting a title, but I've been wanting to start training to get a title or something. From what I see, there are multiple titles USCF awards and I was wondering if there were different "time controls" like FIDE, and if the titles are only awarded when you reach a certain rating in that time control. Also, are "candidate masters" in FIDE and USCF different? I'm assuming they are because apparently you need to reach 2000 for USCF and 2200 for FIDE so that was super confusing.