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Subj:
World Title, Rating &
Blindfold
Date:
5/27/2002 6:02:19 PM Mountain Daylight Time
From: Carlos
Bonilla.
To:
service@chess-poster.com
Dear
friends, I have three questions and I would like to clear this
up since I was asked these and I did not know the answer, so I'd
like to hear an answer from you.
1.- How the
next candidate to the world title is selected? I mean, who
wins that right, how is done and who decides it? I thought that
the actual world champion was Gary Kasparov, isn't he? A
few days ago I read in the newspaper that the Hindu Asnand
(don't recall his last name) beat him. Is it true that he
lost the championship? He still has the highest ELO rating
in history.
2.- How a Chess player's ELO is
calculated, what are the procedures?
3.- What is
blindfold Chess? It's hard to believe, as an example, like
Miguel Najdorf
could play more than 150 games at a time and when he moved to
the next table of an X player, how did he recall his last
move? To me, that's impossible or, does somebody help him, can
you tell me?
Thank you, I am loyal to your site, is very
good, congratulations.
CARLOS BONILLA.
chess-poster.com
Dear Carlos
Bonilla,
For a player to earn the privilege to
challenge the world Chess Champion,
he must compete in an eliminating contest. The Candidates
matches organized by FIDE, are the final eliminating stage of
the competition to decide the world champions opponent for the
title match.
The entrants comprise the loser in the previous
Candidates match and six players who are chosen in the
Interzonal Tournaments. Even though Gary Kasparov
is considered the best Chess player in the world and having the
highest rating ever, he is no longer world Champion.
In 1993, he splits with FIDE to form PCA
and
he was stripped of
the FIDE title.
Look at our World Champions
page for more information about the current FIDE world Champion.
In regard to the ELO rating, there are several
rating and ranking systems in the Chess world and the most
commonly used is the one developed by Professor Arpad Elo.
Being
a little bit complicated to explain and in a few words, it is
based on the rating of the player and rating of the opponents,
and that the rating is adjusted based on how the player's actual
result compares with the expected result.
A "k-factor" is a
constant used to make the adjustment. If, on the basis of the
ratings, a player is expected to score 5 points out of 10,
but only scores 3, then the player would lose 2 times the
k-factor, which can be anywhere from 10 to 25 points depending
in the system used.
If the player scored 7, then the
player would gain 2 times the k-factor. Now, if the player
scores 5 points, no change would take place.
Blindfold games is something that amaze us
greatly. Those are games in which a Chess player won't see the
Chess board at all and he assumedly retains everything in his
mind.
As an example, the great Paul Morphy used to play
blindfold games and well into the move 20 or so, he announced:
"Mate in 4 moves", hard to believe but true, it is written in
Chess books.
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