What are fide ratings | Explained: What is FIDE ratings? How Indian chess players dominated

What are fide ratings: Chess is a hundreds of years old game, which has been played from house to house in India. A film like ‘Chess Ke Khiladi’ is evidence of the popularity of this game. But in the true sense, India records its presence in the world of chess for the first time in the 1980s, when Vishwanathan Anand emerges. Vishwanathan Anand is the first Grandmaster of India to give a new definition to this game in the country. Seeing Anand, an entire generation of the country adopted this game and today India has moved towards becoming the king of chess.

Indians have established themselves as a force in chess in the last two-three years. Indian players have come out in both ‘Open’ and ‘Women’ classes. For the first time in the history of chess, there are three Indian players in the top-10 in FIDE ratings. In FIDE ratings, there are three Indians in the top-10 in the classical format of ‘Open Category’. There are three Indians in the top-15 in the women’s category.

What is FIDE ratings?
Rating in chess shows the strength of a player. This also shows the possibility of his performance. Ratings are a number that can go from 100 to infinite. Different rating systems have been used by different chess associations and organizations. The system used by websites like FIDE and Chess24.com is ELO rating system. It was developed by Hungarian-American Chase Master and Professor Arpad Aloe of Physics. The ELO rating system was officially adopted by the US Chase Federation in 1960 and FIDE in 1970.

The ELO rating system updates the player’s rating based on their performance after each bet. The victory increases his rating and decreases with defeat. Aloe prepared a formula that calculates the player’s latest rating which he called ‘Linier Approximation’. It explains the old and current ratings of ‘Rold’ and ‘RNEW’ players, while ‘DI’ is a rival rating. After calculating all these, some points are added or reduced to the player’s rating.

FIDE ratings occur in many categories. These include Standard, Rapid and Blitz Time Format in ‘Open’ and ‘Women’ categories. Ratings are also published in three formats for ‘Juniors’ and ‘Girls’. FIDE ratings are updated every month.

Gukesh, Pragyananda and Arjun’s trio
Indian players are constantly dominating the chess world. However, it is not yet as in hockey from 1930 to 1960s. The trio of D Gukesh, R Pragyananda and Arjun Arigasi won India in many big tournaments from Chase Olympiad last year. Despite this, Magnus Carlson is still at number one in all three formats. American Grandmasters Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana are also in the top-3 in classical ratings. D. Gukesh, R Pragyananda and Arjun are included in Arigasi Top-10. D Gukesh is the youngest world champion in the history of chess. Who can forget the historic all-Indian final of Divya Deshmukh and Koneru Hampi in FIDE Women’s World Cup. It was won by Divya Deshmukh.