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

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.