Cautand unele chestii referitoare la activitatea online, am descoperit ca intre timp s-au inmultit asa zisele "handbook" cu reguli, la sectiunea sahul online pe site-ul oficial FIDE. Ele sunt importante pentru jucatori din multe privinte. Asa ca, am hotarat sa le facem cunoscute si eventual sa clarificam prin comentarii, unde este necesar. Asadar, oricine mergand pe site-ul FIDE (https://www.fide.com/), poate cauta la butonul "FIDE", capitolul "Handbook" (adica ceva de tipul documente la indemana) care se ocupa de anumite reglementari. De asemenea, se gasesc si pe site oficial FOA (https://arena.myfide.net/) la butonul "Regulations". Sunt lucruri utile si intotdeauna am fost de ideea ca regulile sa fie scrise si la vedere. Iata cele trei reglementari (la data actuala):

 

FIDE Online Arena Anti-cheating policy

FIDE Online Arena Rating Regulations

FIDE Titles for the Lower Rating Band

 In cele ce urmeaza le prezentam asa cum sunt scrise, dar nu pot ascunde uimirea, cat de ridicola este pedeapsa pentru cheating (de altfel pare la alegerea adminului ce sanctiune sa aplice, pentru ca mie nu imi rezulta ca aceea ar fi o succesiune), unde punctele 3.2.4 si 3.2.5 NU AU CE CAUTA ACOLO! Este o gluma proasta, o mangaiere pe crestet a cheater-ului, zicandu-i: ehh ai doua sanse, abia la a treia pazeste-te. De asemenea la acordarea titlurilor AGM, AIM sau AFM, lasand la o parte faptul ca metoda este usor de ajuns (poate ar trebui incercat alternativ macar, exact ca in turneele practice cu turnee pentru norme), baremurile de elo sunt foarte mici. Este o metoda fara pic de rusine, de a baga mana in buzunarul jucatorului. Pe de alta parte salut si felicit administratorii, privind metoda acordarii titlurilor sau categoriilor nationale. Acolo mi se pare, ca totul este mai aproape de adevar. Nici nu sunt costuri. Discutiile pot lua amploare iar comportamentul FOA este foarte distant catre jucatori. La clipa de fata, se poate doar concluziona ca ne vad ca niste simpli platitori, fara niciun drept la replica sau opinie. Cum ar fi: "Voi sunteti aici sa platiti nu sa ganditi!". Ai semnat conditiile (foarte adevarat dar avem alta posibilitate?), acum te conformezi.

 Textul este cel original si nu facem traducerea pentru ca oricum nu s-ar putea comunica cu ei in alta limba decat engleza (eventual unde nu intelegeti, clarificam prin comentarii). Exista si legatura pe titlul respectiv, daca din pacate nu se incadreaza bine in pagina documentul.

 

FIDE Online Arena Anti-cheating policy

1.

Introduction

  1.1.

This section describes the Anti-cheating policy and disciplinary measures of FIDE Online Arena (FOA).

  1.2.

The FOA Anti-cheating team headed by the Chairman of the Online Commission is responsible for any disciplinary decisions against offenders of this Anti-cheating policy.

  1.3.

The FOA Anti-cheating team consists of anti-cheating specialists, chess masters and legal experts, and constantly monitors rated tournaments and individual challenge rated games for violations of this policy.

  1.4.

The FOA Anti-cheating team utilizes the ACE-Guard™ anti-cheating system developed by Premium Chess, in order to monitor all activity in FIDE Online Arena.

2.

Actions of cheating

  2.1.

Players are not permitted to engage in any unfair game practices such as:

    2.1.1.  The use of software assistance of any kind while a game is in progress.
    2.1.2.  Consulting other people while playing a game.
    2.1.3.  Allowing substitute players to share their account in order to play games.
    2.1.4.  Playing with two or more accounts
   

2.1.5.

Any other actions to subvert the ratings, titles or reputation of the FIDE Online Arena.
  2.2. 

The anti-cheating team reserves the right not to make public indications of the analytical tools that lead to clear evidence or strong suspicion of any of the above practices.

3.

Disciplinary penalties

  3.1.

Any player reported to the Anti-cheating team for the first time, receives by e-mail and system message an immediate warning.

  3.2.

Continuing reports of cheating may result in a series of disciplinary penalties: 

    3.2.1. A strict reprimand
    3.2.2. Disqualification from a prize tournament or official FIDE competition.
    3.2.3.  Suspension of FOA account for 24 hours
    3.2.4.  Suspension of FOA account for 15 days
    3.2.5.  Suspension of FOA account for 30 days
   

3.2.6.

Suspension of FOA account for 6 months
    3.2.7.  Suspension of FOA account for 1 year
  3.3. 

Penalties are applied immediately upon the decision of the Anti-cheating team and the offender is notified by email and system message.

  3.4.

Payments of subscription fees are not refunded for the period of account suspension.

  3.5.

Each month, the Anti-cheating team will announce on FOA website and Arena lobby, a report of actions and penalties given.

  3.6. 

All suspensions will be reported to the player's Federation.

4.

Appeals

  4.1. 

Decisions and penalties against offenders of the Anti-cheating policy are not subject to any appeal or discussion, with two exceptions:

   

4.1.1.

Official FIDE competitions according to the published regulations.
   

4.1.2.

Suspension of FOA account for 6 months or more. In this case, an appeal can be submitted to the Online Commission, accompanied by a deposit of 100 euros to the Arena paypal account, which shall be refundable if the appeal is accepted.

 

FIDE Online Arena Rating Regulations

1. Introduction
  1.1 FIDE introduces a rating system for rated chess games played in FIDE Online Arena (FOA) playing zone between full members of FOA. The rating system calculates ratings depending on the time control of a rated game. Therefore, a full member may acquire three different ratings for rapid, blitz and bullet activity, hence the abbreviations RBB ratings and RBB regulations.
  1.2 Those ratings do not influence over the board game activity and subsequent ratings which are included in monthly FIDE Rating Lists (FRL) for rapid and blitz over the board games.
  1.3 On the contrary, FOA ratings are updated by rating changes from over the board rapid and blitz games, as soon as the monthly FRL is published. The exact method of implementation will be announced.
  1.4 RBB rating lists can be produced on demand by the full members, updated up to the last result prior to a member's rating list request. The FOA server issues and displays monthly lists for arbitrary purposes only.
2. Conditions of play
  2.1 Only full members can play rated games in FOA.
  2.2 Full members have the possibility to play unrated games and freely determine the time control.
  2.3 Rated games use the following predetermined time controls:
    2.3.1 For rapid chess: 15m, 25m, 45m, 10m + 10s, 15m + 10s, 25m + 10s, 45m + 10s
    2.3.2 For blitz chess: 3m, 5m, 10m, 3m + 2s, 3m + 3s, 5m + 3s
    2.3.3 For bullet chess: 1m, 2m, 1m + 1s, 1m + 2s
  2.4 In case of disconnection during a game, the client application tries to reconnect automatically to the FOA server. If this is not possible within 60 seconds, then the game is declared lost for the disconnected player.
3. RBB Ratings formulae
  3.1 RBB rating calculations use 2 digit decimal numbers for ratings and rating changes, but only the rounded integer part is displayed as rating. 2 digit decimals are necessary in order to incorporate into ratings small per game rating changes of 0.4 points or less.
  3.2 A rating floor of 100 points is used for RBB ratings.
  3.3 A member whose rating drops under the floor of 100 points in a certain rating category, loses his/her rating for this time control category only. His first rating needs to be determined from the beginning for this time control category only following 3.6 - 3.7.
  3.4 For every new member of FOA, the FOA server determines the member’s first rating from the FIDE rating lists. If a player has a known published rating in a FIDE over the board rating list of the same or any longer time control, then this rating must be used as first rating. Preference of rating lists with this order:
    3.4.1 For rapid chess first rating: rapid, then standard
    3.4.2 For blitz chess first rating: blitz, rapid, then standard
    3.4.3 For bullet chess first rating: blitz, rapid, then standard
  3.5 A member whose first rating cannot be determined by 3.4 is considered to be unrated.
  3.6 An unrated player can achieve his first rating in two stages:
    3.6.1 The unrated player’s first target is to achieve a draw or win an online game against a rated opponent.
    3.6.2 The unrated player’s second target is to complete 4 more games against rated opponents.
  3.7 The first rating can be calculated based on these 5 results with the known formula:
    3.7.1 Ra = the average rating of his opponents.
    3.7.2 His first rating Rf is:
    3.7.3 Rf  = Ra if he scores 50% in his first 5 games.
    3.7.4 Rf = Ra + 20 for each half point scored over 50%.
    3.7.5 Rf = Ra + dp where dp can be found in the table 4.1 of conversion from fractional score ‘p’ into rating differences dp.
  3.8 During the stages of first rating calculations, games between a rated player and an unrated player shall not affect the rating of the rated player.
  3.9 The rating change after the completion of a single game between two rated players is calculated by the formula:
    3.9.1 ΔR = score – PD
      3.9.1.1 For each game the score is 1 or 0.5 or 0
      3.9.1.2 PD is taken from table 4.2 based on the rating difference D between the opponents.
    3.9.2 The new rating after the completion of an online rated game is calculated by the formula: Rn = Ro + (ΔR x K)
  3.10 The K factors used are:
    3.10.1 For rapid and blitz chess K = 20.
    3.10.2 For bullet chess K = 10.
    3.10.3 K = 40 for all players previously unrated in any of the three categories until they complete 30 rated games. This article applies only to the time control categories that the player was considered to be unrated.
  3.11 Opponents’ ratings are updated after the completion of their game.
  3.12 Since 2 digit decimal numbers are used for Rn and ΔR, a member’s rating is rounded to the nearest integer for display reasons only.
  3.13 Fraction of 0.5 is rounded upwards. (Example: Rn = 2215.5 becomes Rn = 2216)
  3.14 An example: It is possible that a player’s rating does not change after a won game. A player with rating 1799.6 wins a game and gains 0.6 points. His new rating becomes 1800.2. Both ratings are shown as 1800.
  3.15 Upon the announcement of the monthly FRL for rapid and blitz, total rating changes ΣΔR from over the board rapid and blitz games shall be added to a players’ RBB ratings
4. Conversion tables
  4.1 The table of conversion from fractional score, p, into rating differences, dp

p

dp

p

dp

p

dp

p

dp

p

dp

p

dp

1.0

800

.83

273

.66

117

.49

-7

.32

 -133

.15

-296

.99

677

.82

262

.65

110

.48

-14

.31

 -141

.14

-309

.98

589

.81

251

.64

102

.47

-21

.30

 -149

.13

-322

.97

538

.80

240

.63

95

.46

-29

.29

 -158

.12

-336

.96

501

.79

230

.62

87

.45

-36

.28

 -166

.11

-351

.95

470

.78

220

.61

80

.44

-43

.27

 -175

.10

-366

.94

444

.77

211

.60

72

.43

-50

.26

 -184

.09

-383

.93

422

.76

202

.59

65

.42

-57

.25

 -193

.08

-401

.92

401

.75

193

.58

57

.41

-65

.24

 -202

.07

-422

.91

383

.74

184

.57

50

.40

-72

.23

 -211

.06

-444

.90

366

.73

175

.56

43

.39

-80

.22

 -220

.05

-470

.89

351

.72

166

.55

36

.38

-87

.21

 -230

.04

-501

.88

336

.71

158

.54

29

.37

-95

.20

 -240

.03

-538

.87

322

.70

149

.53

21

.36

-102

.19

 -251

.02

-589

.86

309

.69

141

.52

14

.35

-110

.18

 -262

.01

-677

.85

296

.68

133

.51

7

.34

-117

.17

 -273

.00

-800

.84

284

.67

125

.50

0

.33

-125

.16

 -284

 

 

  4.2 Table of conversion of difference in rating, D, into scoring probability PD, for the higher, H, and the lower, L, rated player respectively.

D

PD

D

PD

Rtg Dif

H

L

Rtg Dif

H

L

0-3

.50

.50

 198-206

.76

.24

4-10

.51

.49

 207-215

.77

.23

11-17

.52

.48

 216-225

.78

.22

18-25

.53

.47

 226-235

.79

.21

26-32

.54

.46

 236-245

.80

.20

33-39

.55

.45

 246-256

.81

.19

40-46

.56

.44

 257-267

.82

.18

47-53

.57

.43

 268-278

.83

.17

54-61

.58

.42

 279-290

.84

.16

62-68

.59

.41

 291-302

.85

.15

69-76

.60

.40

 303-315

.86

.14

77-83

.61

.39

 316-328

.87

.13

84-91

.62

.38

 329-344

.88

.12

92-98

.63

.37

345-357

.89

.11

99-106

.64

.36

358-374

.90

.10

107-113

.65

.35

375-391

.91

.09

114-121

.66

.34

392-411

.92

.08

122-129

.67

.33

412-432

.93

.07

130-137

.68

.32

433-456

.94

.06

138-145

.69

.31

457-484

.95

.05

146-153

.70

.30

485-517

.96

.04

154-162

.71

.29

518-559

.97

.03

163-170

.72

.28

560-619

.98

.02

171-179

.73

.27

620-735

.99

.01

180-188

.74

.26

> 735

1.0

.00

189-197

.75

.25

 

 

 

 

FIDE Online Arena Titles for the Lower Rating Band

1 Introduction
  1.1 FIDE introduces and recognises titles designated for the chess players of the lower rating band. Ordered hierarchically from higher to lower status, these titles are:
    1.1.1 Arena Grandmaster (AGM or ag)
    1.1.2 Arena International master (AIM or ai)
    1.1.3 Arena FIDE master (AFM or af)
    1.1.4 Arena Candidate master (ACM or ac)
  1.2 FIDE Titles of the lower rating band are designated for players of both genders alike.
  1.3 FIDE Titles of the lower rating band can be achieved by playing FIDE rated games in FIDE Online Arena (FOA) playing zone.
  1.4 Acquirement of any of these titles is mentioned in the FOA player's card as well as the player's FIDE profile card.
  1.5 FIDE Titles of the lower rating band are valid for life, however acquirement of a higher title described in 1.1 replaces any title reference of a lower status.
  1.6 These titles are related with the titles for chess players described in section B.01 of the FIDE Handbook. As a result acquirement of the IM/WIM, or GM/WGM has a higher status and replaces any title of the lower rating band in the player's title status.
  1.7 Players who have already the titles of GM/WGM and IM/WIM are not eligible for FIDE Titles of the lower rating band.
  1.8 FOA members who possess or acquire the FM/WFM or CM/WCM titles are still eligible for FIDE titles of the lower rating band.
2 Administration
  2.1 Only full members of FOA have the right to acquire a title of the lower rating band.
  2.2 An expired membership does not cancel an already acquired title nor the right of the player to use the title in over the board chess tournaments.
  2.3 FIDE Titles of the lower rating band are direct titles (automatic titles). The FOA server monitors automatically the requirements and informs the player for the eligibility for a title as soon as the requirements are met.
  2.4 The player acquires the title as soon as the relevant title fee is paid. The player's title status is updated upon confirmation of payment.
3 Requirements
  3.1 A player is eligible for a title of the lower rating band by maintaining a rating equal to or higher than the relevant minimum threshold for a number of consecutive FOA rated games.
  3.2 This achievement can be made in any of the three categories of time control, either rapid, or blitz, or bullet. The number of games is calculated separately for rapid, blitz and bullet. Meeting the requirements in any of the three categories makes a player eligible for the title.
  3.3 As soon as a player's rating drops under the threshold, the number of games is reset to zero (0) for this time control category. Number of games in different time control categories are not affected.
  3.4 Rating change from over the board rapid and blitz games are incorporated to FOA ratings once every month, as soon as the monthly FIDE rating list is published. This rating change affects the monitoring of FIDE Titles of the lower rating band as if it happened in a single game and counts only as one game.
  3.5 Minimum ratings and number of games for each title respectively are:
   
 

rating

Rapid

Blitz

Bullet

AGM

2000

50 games

100 games

150 games

AIM

1700

50 games

100 games

150 games

AFM

1400

50 games

100 games

150 games

ACM

1100

50 games

100 games

150 games

  3.6 Acquirement of a FIDE Title of the lower rating band does not reset the counting of games required for a title of a higher status.
  3.7 If a player's membership expires, a player cannot play any rated games and cannot claim any title. His/Her game counters remain inactive.
  3.8 Title seekers are advised to renew their membership before expiration date. Upon membership renewal, ratings and game counters are restored.
  3.9 A player eligible for a FIDE title of the lower rating band loses his right to acquire the title if his rating falls and remains under the relevant threshold for more than 30 days.
4 Title fees
  4.1 The title fees for FIDE Titles of the lower rating band are:
   

AGM

50 euros

AIM

30 euros

AFM

15 euros

ACM

 5 euros

  4.2 If a player acquires for the first time a FIDE Title of the lower rating band, then the full fee has to be paid.
  4.3 If a player upgrades his FIDE Title of the lower rating band with a new one, then the difference of the fees between the two categories has to be paid.
  4.4 Fee calculation examples:
    4.4.1 An untitled player is eligible for the ACM title. The title fee is 5 euros.
    4.4.2 An untitled player is eligible for the AIM title. The title fee is 30 euros.
    4.4.3 A ACM is eligible for the AFM title. The title fee is 10 euros.
    4.4.4 A AFM is eligible for the AGM title. The title fee is 35 euros.