Nauru Chess Federation: Nauru Gets FIDE ratings

Nauru Chess Federation Gets FIDE Ratings

The Nauru Chess Federation has confirmed that 7 local chess players are now registered into the FIDE “rating list” as the first official rated players for Nauru.

David vs Linkbelt - Classical Chess Rating Tournament -Nauru

It had been near two years in the making, but it finally got made, A historical reckoning within the annuls of the Nauru Chess Federation was acknowledged only by the few Nauruans who have become the first to be registered as officially NCF rated players in the FIDE rating list.

The “rating list” will be available on the FIDE website when it is updated on the 1^st of each month, adding all changes and new ratings of every rated on the planet.

A Nauru Chess Player Getting his FIDE rating - Nauru

Natu and Cydel -FCF Rated Chess Players -Nauru Community Centre

In 2015 Rene Dube as the former President of NCF, and Alamanda Lauti as the General Secretary established contact with Mr Jamie Kenmure, where they initiated the first steps of the FIDE membership application. This set the ball rolling in the direction of NCF developments to upgrade our standards of Nauru chess to the international arena.

Jed intimidating is opponent with his deltoid exposed

Andrew Gadeanang - With his game-face on

Cydel FCF Chess Player -Giving Nauru a Rating Game

The Oceania Chess Confederate (OCC) approved an initial grant to enable the basic development phases of NCF/FIDE membership at the request of Jamie Kenmure, who has taken the role of Nauru’s Ratings Officer. However, throughout the months of dialogue with NCF, the program suffered some setbacks and was rescheduled three times due to the circumstances revolving around our personal lifestyle.

Nauru Community Centre Yaren - Chess Rating Tournament

At the AGM in October 2016, the new elected NCF President Ricko Depaune took it on himself to push and ensure the ratings Officer arrive Nauru and provide our players the ratings they deserve.

Selected Few at the Nauru Chess Raing Tournament

PLAYER	RATING	FIDE ID#
Yarsir Mohammad	Un-Rated	22400125
David Dabuae	Un-Rated	22400079
Rene Dube	Un-Rated	22400010
Andrew Gadeanang	Un-Rated	22400095
Jed Taleka	Un-Rated	22400117
Linkbelt Detabene	Un-Rated	22400060
Richie Halstead	Un-Rated	22400052
Jamie Kenmure	1598	32002070
Natu Taoba	1448	11401630
Cydel Terubea	1389	11400455

A date was fixed into the NCF annuls.

On April 7^th Jamie Kenmure and two FIDE rated players from the Fiji Chess Federatio were greeted at the Airport by Ricko Depaune and his Vice Mr David Dabuae. Jamie Kenmure will also be conducting an Arbiter Seminar for NCF during his visit as part of the his development program.

The Rating Tournament was held at the Nauru Community Centre Yaren the same day. At 1pm the Tournament was underway with the selected maximum of 7 Un-rated players from Nauru and the 3 FIDE rated players in a full Round Robin pairing of Classical-Chess, 30min +30sec increment, full annotations.

Four rounds was completed before day end, with the remaining five rounds completed on the next day at the Nauru College staff room.

The following images shows the match results per player during their rating. (the quality is not so good, but you will squint to read if you are driven by real interest. Otherwise see NCF-FIDE and click on the player profile)