Why aren’t more tournaments in the United States participating in the FIDE 100 world record attempt? It’s free to register and the event doesn’t even have to be rated, but the regulations do require that a licensed Arbiter submit the games played.
…thus limiting participation to about 230 people across the US federation. https://arbiters.fide.com/wp-content/uploads/Database/List_of_Arbiters.pdf
Only 5.5% of the players who played in a US Chess rated event in FY 2023-24 also played in a FIDE rated event. Here’s a breakdown by age group:
age uschess fide pct
--------- ------- ---- ----
0-9 19535 113 0.6
10-19 50001 2196 4.4
20-29 8715 1002 11.5
30-39 5687 615 10.8
40-49 3857 381 9.9
50-59 2789 370 13.3
60-69 2877 391 13.6
70-79 1613 168 10.4
80-89 275 21 7.6
90-99 22 1 4.5
-N- 780 9 1.2 (no birthdate in US Chess member record)
Here’s the breakdown by regular rating (the ones without a regular rating are at the end, most of those appear to only play in US Chess online events.)
rclass uschess fide pct
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100 10083 0 0.0
200 5682 0 0.0
300 6147 2 0.0
400 6377 2 0.0
500 6099 3 0.0
600 5716 7 0.1
700 5321 8 0.2
800 4906 7 0.1
900 4365 23 0.5
1000 3925 28 0.7
1100 3506 46 1.3
1200 3226 80 2.5
1300 2895 77 2.7
1400 2833 150 5.3
1500 2616 199 7.6
1600 2461 356 14.5
1700 2217 529 23.9
1800 2005 792 39.5
1900 1563 791 50.6
2000 1110 652 58.7
2100 715 492 68.8
2200 600 422 70.3
2300 272 220 80.9
2400 176 154 87.5
2500 100 93 93.0
2600 64 61 95.3
2700 16 15 93.8
2800 11 11 100.0
-N- 11146 47 0.4
Events do NOT have to be FIDE rated to participate. However, a licensed arbiter must send the results. Any US Chess member with a valid membership would be allowed to play in them.
This is the first I’ve even heard of it, but I don’t have any involvement with FIDE issues these days.
Why do events have to be submitted by licensed arbiters? That does not really make sense if they are not required to be FIDE rated.
Arbiters are certifying the results for the Guinness World Records attempt.
“The official arbiter of the event is responsible to confirm the number of games played and provide to FIDE a standard TRF file and sign a protocol confirming the number of games played. The arbiter must be registered at FIDE, have a title of International arbiter or FIDE arbiter; or be a FIDE licensed National Arbiter.”
I’m not sure if this is something FIDE is requiring to raise interest in running FIDE events or to meet the increasingly strict requirements from the Guinness folks in accepting new world records.
I’ll bet it’s door number 2.
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Well, we had our event and we contributed 91 over the board games which were formally counted as part of the 7.2 million games played in the new record for the Guinness World Records®.
Anybody can flood the market.
Not sure what that means, but we had a lot of fun. I even made a commemorative stamp and stamped the back of all of the scoresheets for the games that would count towards the record.
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Thank You. It speaks quite a bit how 4 worlds collide but not collude.
Bernard Wojnowski