Yesterday I got a bit excited of the fact that I can now get a FIDE title quite easily. Well, actually most people can get a some kind of title without that much effort. As the new FIDE titles address players in the 1100-2000 rating range it should not be all that difficult to get a title if you happen to want one. I am one those who really want one, so I started playing yesterday the game requirement for the title. In order to get the titles you need to play 50 rapid games or 100 blitz games or 150 bullet games. If you want to get a certain title, for example, Arena International Master, you need to maintain a rating of 1700 or above for the amount of games that are required for the game speed. All the games are to be played at FIDE Online Arena in order to qualify for that title. I started to get the rapid games going yesterday but out of the six games I played, only two were classified as proper elo games. I think this might have something to do with my opponents not having an official elo rating yet, not sure but two of the tournament games were counted for the 50 games and two were not. I am trying to get the Arena Grandmaster title later but as my rating at the moment only qualifies for Arena International master title, I might get that when those 50 games are completed, provided of course that I will keep my rating high enough. I think there should not be any reason why I would not be able to do that unless I started blundering many games in a row. My current rapid rating is 1839 and just need to try and climb up the ratings toward 2000 and once there keep it there for 50 games.
The game I am sharing with you today is one that was played at Red Hot Pawn in a tournament called 2014 August Grand Seven Fourteen II. I am currently second in the tournament, seven points behind the current leader but I can still overtake him if everything goes well in the remaining games. There are 21 players in this tournament and the rating range is 922-1840, so a lot of difference there, maybe a bit too much to my liking. One of the reasons I might only start in the future tournaments with some rating restrictions on them. I have added one mate in three, two mate in five, one mate in six and one mate in nine puzzle today.
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