Playing chess is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman. You spend ages twatting about with small nobbly things, and in the end you normally end up stuck so you can't move. And sometimes you have to resign...
While I'm at it, being a Stoke Fan is also like making love to a beatiful woman. You can spend years being miserabe, nothing goes right, it costs a fortune, and usually ends in tears, all for the prospect of about 4 seconds of joy that never comes.
(prefer 3-day time outs please!)
Tournament Entry Rating is calculated by the formula (CurrentRating + HighestRating) / 2. The entry rating will never drop to more than 100 points below your Highest Rating.
Rated stats are updated within 24 hours of the last completed rated game.