Anand and Topalov played on the "ciudad de leon" rapid chess
tournament recently. That tournament affect their official ration or a
"rapid" rating?

Artificer wrote:
Anand and Topalov played on the "ciudad de leon" rapid chess
tournament recently. That tournament affect their official ration or a
"rapid" rating?

FIDE's ratings are only for long games. Specifically, each player
must have at least two hours to make his first sixty moves, possibly
including Fischer-style increments. (I'm assuming here that the
tournament includes at least one 2200+ player; the games can be
quicker if the players are weaker.)

The full regulations for playing rates are at

http://www.fide.com/official/handbook.asp?level=B0201

FIDE don't do rapid ratings.


Dave.


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