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Titles

The following titles (and the woman variants):

These titles require norms:

  • GM >= 2600 against players with average rating >= 2380
  • IM >= 2450 against players with average rating >= 2230
  • WGM >= 2400 against players with average rating >= 2180
  • WIM >= 2250 against players with average rating >= 2030

These titles are rating-specific:

  • FM >= 2300
  • CM >= 2200
  • WFM >= 2100
  • WCM >= 2000

These ratings don't have to be published, they can appears mid-tournament!

SuperGM is not actually a FIDE rating, it's just a thing we made up

Certain tournaments can award titles/norms (e.g. Olympiads)

Getting norms by performance in tournaments

  • Cannot play more than 2 rounds per day
  • No more than 12 hours per day
  • Without increments, min time = 2h for 40 moves with +30 minutes to complete the game
  • With increments, min time is 90 mins with 30 second increments from the beginning
  • Arbiter must be a FA and licensed in order to offer a tournament norm
  • Arbiters cannot play in the tournament (even as a filler)

Title norms

  • Games decided by forfeit/default, adjudication or otherwise (non-board play) are ignored
  • Round robin games against unrated players who score 0 are ignored

You need:

  • A minimum of 9 games. (You can also have 8 games + 1 bye (non-requested bye))
  • Minimum of 50% of opponents should have titles (excludes CM and WCM)
  • Minimum of 1/3 of players should have the title you're searching for or above.
  • Max unrated opponents is 20%
  • maximum 2/3rds can come from one federation
  • Maximum of 60% from norm seeking federation
  • Must meet a minimum of 2 federations other than your own

Federations are so you play a range of people from all over the place effectively:

  • FID (FIDE) - This counts as "no federation"
  • ECF - English Chess Federation

Exceptions from normal conditions:

  • International championships (e.g. Continental, Olympiad)

Exceptions to the above normal conditions (these are exempt from federation requirements) for the norm to count:

  • National Men's Women's or Open Championships (from the host nation only)
  • National Team Championships (from the host nation only)
  • Zonal and sub-zonal tournaments
  • Swiss system events with a minimum of 20 FIDE rated players from at least 3 federations different from the host and at least 10 who are GM, IM, WGM, WIM

At least 1 norm must be obtained under normal foreigner requirements

Calculating norms

  • Check all of those requirements above are met
  • Find the average rating of all opponents
  • Do the performance (table lookup)
  • Add that to the performance
  • Round numbers to whole numbers
  • Compare to what rating is needed for the norm

For certain cases, you can inflate one player below the floor for the title you're trying to get and raise it to the floor. The floors are as follows:

  • Floor GM: 2200
  • Floor IM: 2050
  • Floor WGM: 2000
  • Floor WIM: 1850

If there are many rounds (e.g. 11 instead of 9), we can eliminate rounds (which the player has won) which don't match certain conditions to see if the resulting rounds meet the conditions.

Norm forms

If a player gets a norm (typically GM and IM), you have to fill out 3 forms (IT1, IT2, IT3) and these should be presented to the player, and the ratings officer. The arbiter creates them, the federation person sends them to FIDE.