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SparkChessis an excellent way to get better at chess - learn the proper rules (including the elusive en-passant), practice openings, test strategies, use the board editor to recreate famous positions with FEN strings, replay famous games, import/export PGN games and databases (with comments and annotations) and let the computer help you. With 5 levels of difficulty and a behavior modeled to make human mistakes, this is a very fun game to play. Our online chess game also features an opening database created by analysing 145,000 games from international tournaments. There are 4 different board styles (a 2D diagram, two fixed 3D designs and a 3D rotatable board) to suit any style - from the playful kid to the serious tournament player.

With the multiplayer feature, you can put your skills to the test against other players like you! You can create an account or play as guest. You can filter out opponents based on different criteria. The multiplayer service is child-friendly. If you don't feel like playing, you can now just watch live games as they unfold.

SparkChess has won many awards and it was featured by Google, Blackberry and Adobe for its cross-platform capabilities. You can download SparkChess for PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android phones and tablets.

Deleting your account is irreversible. Your personal information and statistics will be deleted. If you are the administrator of a team, it will be removed as well. Your username will be available for registration by a different user.

Dr. Jeanne Sinquefield announced the Cairns Chess Queens Award, a $100,000 award for up to five American women who achieve the title of grandmaster (GM) within the next five years. More ?

This is the end game between Alexander Flamberg and Oldrich Duras from their meeting at Opatija in 1912. Duras, with the black pieces, obtains a victory against Flamberg just in two. Can you figure out his strategy?

Congratulations to GM Daniel Naroditsky for winning our Titled Arena July 2024 in a very close finish, just one point ahead of GM Alireza Firouzja! GM Nihal Sarin came in 3rd, losing his final game against eventual winner Naroditsky.

The last stage of the Biel Masters has started! GMs R Praggnanandhaa, Lim Quang L, Abhimanyu Mishra and Haik Martirosyan are competing in a final round-robin tournament until 25 July, while the winner of the Challengers will be decided between GMs Salem Saleh, Alexander Donchenko and R Vaishali.

For the next 24 hours, all rated games played on Lichess with a minimum time control of 3 min + 2 sec, or equivalent such as 5+0, and lasting at least 15 moves will count towards the FIDE 100 World Record Attempt for the most chess games played online and offline in one day!

I have a 2 part question here. First is pretty simple, if you want an IM title instead of NM do you have to play people from different countries? If yes, then can you still achieve this by playing international players in your home country or do you have to travel internationally? What are the rules?

Next question (yea those multiple questions above were just on one thing ), I noticed there are games recorded through the Pro Chess League. Those are played online, correct? If so, can people get a title simply by playing chess online? If the answer to that is yes, then you can become an IM through rapid play or does it have to be classical?

I don't see classical events on here, so my thinking was you don't get rating points. To further confuse things, if you get rapid rating points and not classical rating points can you be a rapid IM? I'll stop here for now, but please check back. Depending on the answers I might have further questions.

How can you get a title of any value online but have to be 2200 over the board? That part is confusing. What if you have a 2200+ rating online, obviously it will probably be inflated, but beat 2400+ players who have a title already?

Ok, thanks for the information so far. I am still wondering if someone knows about the first question, Can you play people from other countries in your home country and get a FIDE title of GM or IM or do you have to travel internationally?

I see now something called an Arena title is attainable online. What is it worth though? None of the conditions include playing classical, so what can you do with an Arena title? I thought arena tournaments were just people starting a tournament, waiting 1 hour for people to join, and then playing. Kind of like kids playing music in a garage band.

When they talk about performance rating of 2000 or higher, does that translate to like 2200 on chess.com or more? In other words, at what point can someone feel comfortable enough to compete on the FIDE server for this Arena title? 250 games are a lot, LOL, do you play them all at once or are they cumulative over years?

I am still wondering if someone knows about the first question, Can you play people from other countries in your home country and get a FIDE title of GM or IM or do you have to travel internationally?

I am still wondering if someone knows about the first question, Can you play people from other countries in your home country and get a FIDE title of GM or IM or do you have to travel internationally?

There are a number of events in the US that are designed for the chance of players to get norms. They are not extremely common, but do exist in bigger cities where there are more foreign titled players already living or going to university.

I just learned about the FIDE Arena chess titles recently and read through the official FIDE rules for each category and their rationale (though, this was vague but they do not have to explain "why" they choose to offer the public what the public can then *choose* to try and achieve or not). First, Yes, you certainly get to play people from many different countries. This question took some time here to be discussed since it immediately turned to what was nor originally asked and that is what everyone's opinion is about a FIDE Arena title.

Like so much in life, in this case I truly think one should do and pursue a chess title if it is something that provides them with personal fulfillment and contentment. What other's "think" is not what matters for you when it comes to who you play chess with; why you play chess at all; and who cares what naysayers "think" about a chess title because if by choosing to obtain a FIDE Arena title enriches your life in any manner then it is worth it for you. I do not care what someone here thinks of an Arena title. If I wanted to get one, then I would. It is simply a matter of personal choice. It is all a matter of perception. Some will forever claim that Correspondence Chess and, say, the ICCF are just "cheaters" whereas we know cheating also occurs in just about every form of human relationship and in OTB chess as well. Who cares what people think if by playing chess to earn a FIDE Arena title or the ICCF where computers are allowed, if it keeps your interest in chess alive and brings you joy, they don't have to agree with it but should be happy that it brings you a new chess experience.

We live in a rating obsessed chess culture and when one loses sight of the inherent beauty of the game then you should ask yourself "Why am I really playing chess?" To brag about a rating or to enjoy the game for the sake of the game?

I have nothing to prove to anyone here and so for the sake of adding to the posts then I'll just say I will earn a FIDE Arena Title....and whether it is of now value to you means absolutely nothing to me.

Being nervous is natural, but you should play. First of all it is much more fun than playing bots. Your rating is provisional only. It says around 1 044 but that is not correct. The correct rating you will see after 10-20 games when it stabilizes at certain point. If you wish to improve you have to play against real people. Playing against bots is mostly not good enough to help you. Bots play somewhat unrealistically. They will make mistakes but it will not be like when people make mistakes.

At this point you shouldn't worry about rating. That thing is there so it can pair you with opponents of approximately similar strength. So when you get to your real rating you will start winning more as well.

If you need help improving your game, perhaps this will be useful to you:

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