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New Hong Kong CiS Rating Updated

July 8th, 2013

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With the end of the Caissa Spring season the results of all rounds have been submitted to FIDE generating the latest FIDE CiS rating. Caissa is very proud to have given FIDE CiS Premium Student Accounts to close to 30 Hong Kong youth who can now start working to improve a concrete target (their rating) by playing as much as possible in CiS rated events.

Because the Caissa spring competition was the first CiS rated event in Hong Kong, the rating numbers are still skewed towards a high score for the relatively older players. FIDE’s formula for a starting rating depends on the age as a decisive variable.

But that is only the starting point! We can see that some of our Hong Kong youth have worked hard to improve their score by real win results.

 

FIDE CiS Rating per 8 July 2013

FIDE CiS Rating per 8 July 2013

 

Jay, Miguel Angel and Mei Jing have already side-stepped their low starting point due to their young age by scoring very good results in the Intermediate and Advanced groups and Bryant, scoring 100% in the Intermediate group, has shown that his relatively high starting point was not only because of the age factor.

We can also see many new accounts have been created as part of new Caissa memberhips since 18 May and for the coming 13 July Caissa 1st Anniversary Tournament which will be CiS rated for all youth players. We will definitely see interesting further developments as the CiS rating slowly evolves towards a reliable pointer of relative strength.

Caissa Introduces Official FIDE CIS Rating for Youth in Hong Kong

April 21st, 2013

At some tournaments in Hong Kong the organizers sell certificates with a player’s tournament rating at the end of the event. However, there is no official national rating system for youth to indicate relative strength.

Yet, it is imperative to any sport to understand one’s personal or team rank compared to competitor peers. Without it, there is no sport spirit, and without sport spirit there is little motive to train, endure and overcome obstacles for the greater good of becoming better or as good as one can be.

The World Chess Federation, FIDE, and many national chess federations around the world, meticulously keeps track of players’ performance in a number that indicates one’s relative strength: the chess rating.

FIDE also attempts to help chess federations with their Chess in Schools Commission, CIS, and it offers national federations various kinds of assistance to introduce chess in schools. Several countries through this initiative have already introduced chess in one form or the other in a school setting and the results, for example seen from the Turkey case, are impressive when it comes to the increase of quantity and quality of their youth players.

 

An official FIDE CIS rating, study materials, newsletters and a nice credit card size ID comes with the Premium Student Membership

An official FIDE CIS rating, study materials, newsletters and a nice credit card size ID comes with the Premium Student Membership

 

As part of the CIS approach, by obtaining (10 euro/year) a Premium Student Membership (PSM) – demo), players get an official FIDE ID and a CIS rating (somewhere between 600 and 800 to start with, depending on the age). Studying chess, playing in tournaments or doing otherwise chess work will help improve the CIS rating.

Caissa is proud to be the first, but hopefully not the only one for too long, chess organization in Hong Kong to have members enrolled in PSM.