Link/more info?

What an asswipe.

Can't they do a lifetime ban for something as that is as clearly guilty as what he was doing? I mean, I assume the 3 year ban is simply so that in case someone is wrongly indicted that they can get back in.

It seems the guy has been cheating for multiple tournaments and many matches and was caught red handed. What interest should FIDE have in letting him back in automatically at any point?!?

For instance, for people who haven't cheated, a 3 year ban seems well worth the prize money that could be accumulated until you get caught. Even the second ban (10 years I think?) is probably worth it as long as you can win a tournament before getting caught.

Yeah Rei you can't leave us hanging like a backward pawn here. What's the deal with multicast?

loooool

John Bartholomew mentioned it in his latest bullet video. This reddit thread has more info.

Hit me up, 6-10 pm central. im generally on at some point

3+0 against full-strength Stockfish: http://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-game....php?id=101189. I'm a masochist.

I was at least = for 25 moves, woo-hoo, and had a non-zero chance of getting a perpetual at some point. Would have been more interesting if I saw 22. g5 before 22. Qh3.

Stockfish BEAST. Cool game

Will do some time

i'd be up for some blitz too. since i have almost a 900 elo advantage, i'd be willing to go easy on you by playing unsound openings.

Two events, the Chinese selection tournament for the 2006 Turin Olympiad. That looked like 2+ month 7 player quadruple round robin monstrosity that lasted from late Dec 2005 to Feb 2006 and accounted for 122 of the 190 points. Then the Turin Olympiad where she gained a 68 points. So looks like I overreacted: 2220 base rating + 122/15*40 = 2545 if FIDE doesn't consider discreteness within a continuously running tournament.

The other 68 points was the 2006 olympiad where she scored 11/13 in June 2006 with rating performance 2598. So looks like for her only, the 40 k-factor would have achieved FIDE's purpose. Matching rating with playing strength strength.

Now, let's see if her next 2 tournaments pushes her over 2700 (Nakhchivan Open) and.... Dortmund!!

http://www.elometer.net/

Chess playing strength estimate.

it says I'm 1926, 95% interval is 1740-2111. I'd like to think I'm a bit better than that, but I definitely had no idea for a bunch of the problems.

Based on your move choices, our estimate of your Elo rating is 2214, with a 95% confidence interval of [2027...2401]. Close enough. There were a few that I wasn't even close to calculating in the time allotted though I think I saw the right ideas. Strangely the last 10 problems or so were super easy with the hard ones somewhere in the beginning/middle.

Interesting. It overestimated my rating quite a bit

"1928, with a 95% confidence interval of [1742...2113]"

I received a 1932, but I misclicked on at least 3 of the problems. I would prefer a click and drag system.

So....what is your rating?

Wow, 1754, which is surprisingly close to my USCF rating of 1778. I have to say I was hoping for better although I rushed some at the beginning for no good reason but then realized I should take all my time and then missed two problems I wasn't positive about but thought I had a strong response for due to running out of time, lol.

way over rated:

1599, with a 95% confidence interval of [1377...1820].

I should be about 1300 USCF.

1810
with 1614-2006 meh
I suspect alot of the estimations would be based on the answers you gave at the end as well where it asks about your current ratings etc

LOL, it told me:

"Based on your move choices, our estimate of your Elo rating is 1951, with a 95% confidence interval of [1766...2135]."

Absurdly high. I have some hope that I might be better than my current 1544 USCF rating would indicate (all chess players want to think they're underrated, but I have a passable argument as I've gained rating points at my last several tournaments). However there's no way I'm in the 1900+ range. Even my alleged lower bound of 1766 seems clearly too high to me.

Plus I didn't pay much attention while taking the quiz. I was cooking at the same time, and was pretty distracted. I let a few of the problems go without even answering. I also played some ridiculous sacrifices that seemed just vaguely "thematic" without any attempt to calculate. I'm thinking perhaps I ran super hot on these dubious sacs having actually been sound?

I don't actually have an official rating (USCF or FIDE), but I shouldn't be anywhere near 1900.

My chess.com ratings are currently between 1700-1800 in both standard and correspondence, and even there I feel like I might be overrated, since I haven't played that many games.

I think I just ran hot, like BJJ

Great to hear everyone ranked higher than they should but me. Bodes well for my own strength, .

Actually, all this week I've been relatively fuzzy headed. I dno what the deal is. Maybe I need to stop doing chess quizzes at the end of the day after work. Or go meditate first or something instead. Everything seems kind of jumbled compared to last week when I look at the chess board.

Yeah there are some days where you are destined to hang pieces in stupid ways, a lot.

More wild bullet games against weakened engines. As White (lol'd hard after pulling off the mate at the end); As Black; As White. Typical games. Garbage play in the opening and early middle; spot cool ideas after the comp blunders. I need to delete Stockfish on my main computer, so I don't get sucked into these time-wasting sessions.

ETA: I just noticed that all of them involve a backward queen move to set up a mate. Heh.

1536 with 95% range from 1306-1767.

No idea if this is accurate as I don't have an official rating anywhere. My chess.com correspondence rating just hit a new peak of 1577 today, though. None of my other time control ratings are even as high as 1300.

Would that make me a "C" class player? Not that it matters but if I ever am among random chess nerds irl and they ask me it would be helpful to know what to tell them, short of "well my chess.com blitz rating is.... and my ....."