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Originally Posted by Crothian  What is ranking?
I've been also getting back into chess. I've been mostly playing my computer and slowly increasing the difficulty level. |
If you do formal tournaments or play USCF players they have a ranking that tells you how good you are. The more games you win, the more your ranking goes up, the better the players you beat the more your ranking goes up. If you lose, especially to lower ranked foes, it goes down.
I've only ever been ranked on Yahoo, which approximates the ranking system, and as I recall you have to be a pretty solid player (and play regularly) to break 1500. World champions and grandmasters are something like 2400+.
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