Go back
Newcomer's Questions: Blitz and Acronyms

Newcomer's Questions: Blitz and Acronyms

Only Chess

Vote Up
Vote Down

Blitz: Initial time, I assume is the total time for each player?

Increment is what?

I played chess many years ago as a young lad. Just an OK player. Now I want to
play again, approaching it as a new chess player. I just played one round of Blitz
here. Wow! Is Blitz playing a good way to learn (re-learn)?

Is there a reference for all the various acronyms used in the forums?
Some I get (CC) but others I don't.

ELO, QID, OTB, FEN, PGN etc...

Great chess site and community. Glad I found it.

Thanks
Russ

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by rmmcclay
Blitz: Initial time, I assume is the total time for each player?

Increment is what?

I played chess many years ago as a young lad. Just an OK player. Now I want to
play again, approaching it as a new chess player. I just played one round of Blitz
here. Wow! Is Blitz playing a good way to learn (re-learn)?

Is there a reference for all the var ...[text shortened]... QID, OTB, FEN, PGN etc...

Great chess site and community. Glad I found it.

Thanks
Russ
ELO, the guy who developed a type of ratings commonly used today. often mistakenly used for fide rating.

QID, queen's indian defense
OTB, over the board ie. physical board vs. a virtual online board.
FEN, a chess position diagram file structure.
PGN, portable game notation, a file structure for a whole game.

and when people speak of russ, they don't mean you.

1 edit
Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by wormwood
and when people speak of russ, they don't mean you.[/b]
Thanks for some help with acronyms.

I've already surmised that someone named Russ is possibly The Force behind this site,
but to correct you, when people speak of Russ, that might possibly mean me just as
well, since after all it's my name too and I've probably been around longer in the world
than he (although that's a risky assumption. I was b. 1955) =)

Vote Up
Vote Down

and increment is a very useful tool to avoid silly finishes.
it's simply a number of seconds added to your time after each move.

Meaning if you play 5+2, it means 5 min + 2 sec per move.

So if you have a queen, rook and 2 knights versus 1 pawn, you don't risk losing because of time ! you'll always have at least 2 sec to move.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by wormwood
FEN, a chess position diagram file structure.
Just to be complete, or pedantic, depending on your viewpoint, FEN stands for Forsyth-Edwards Notation. There is a good Wikipedia article on it.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by rmmcclay
Thanks for some help with acronyms.

I've already surmised that someone named Russ is possibly The Force behind this site,
but to correct you, when people speak of Russ, that might possibly mean me just as
well, since after all it's my name too and I've probably been around longer in the world
than he (although that's a risky assumption. I was b. 1955) =)
Russ is one of the administrators at this site.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Russ is one of the administrators at this site.
Russ = God

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by rja211077
Just to be complete, or pedantic, depending on your viewpoint, FEN stands for Forsyth-Edwards Notation. There is a good Wikipedia article on it.
Not to mention it is actually Elo, not ELO.
ELO is an acronym for Electric Light Orchestra, a band. Elo is a surname.

Vote Up
Vote Down

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
Not to mention it is actually Elo, not ELO.
ELO is an acronym for Electric Light Orchestra, a band. Elo is a surname.
Indeed it is. Arpad Elo, Hungarian, created the strength ratings for chess and Go. He was a chess master and resided in Milwaukee where he died in 1992.