Question about getting a FIDE Rating

The rules change occasionally. Currentlly is 5 games against players with ratings.

I suspect that your opponents must be rated at the commencement of the game. I remembered that I had a lot of unrated opponents in my rated tournaments several years ago and I emerged with a zero FIDE rating.

EDIT: I didn't realise that Martin's comment in the quote had the relevant answer!

Unlike USCF, FIDE does not show the "live" ratings so you have to wait until the next time it publishes ratings to see it on your profile.  That usually happens at the start of each month if I remember correctly.

Also, I don't think FIDE will give you a rating until you've won or drawn at least 1 game, so if you had FIDE rated games that were all losses, you would remain unrated.  That is different from USCF which will provide you a provisional rating that is 400 points below your lowest opponent if you had all losses.

That is just with matches, not single games in a tournament.  USCF does the same thing (you cannot have a match between players that are unrated or have a provisional rating).  This is to avoid rating manipulations.

No, it also means tournament games. If you play a FIDE rated game against someone that does not have an FIDE rating at the time of the event, the game will not be rated. An unrated player has to face at least 5 rated players and score at least 0.5 to get rated.

Section 6 (where the quote comes from) is not referring to that.  It is referring to matches.  Section 6.2 makes that very clear when it is talking about not rating games after a match has already been won (i.e. in a best of 10 game match, once a player has reached 5.5, the match is won, so any games after that would not be rated).

Yes, the 5 rated players and score at least a 1 draw against one of them is required for a rating - but that is not match.  You cannot have a match with an unrated player, period.  In USCF, you cannot have a match with an unrated or provisionally rated player.

The regulations also say games against unrated players don't count.

7.1.4 A rating for a player new to the list shall be published when it is based on 5 games against rated opponents. ....

The games against unrated players do not count towards the calculations. So yes, your quote and reply was about matches, but it holds true for tournament games as were against unrated players as well.

I didn't say anything about US Chess

While I haven't played in a FIDE rated section in a while, I've never received a rating because only a couple of my games were against FIDE rated players at the time I played them, so those games don't count, even though they have me listed with 6 games:

Agreed.  I wasn't disputing that - I was simply answering the question about matches (which do not apply to the OP's question).  I added in the USCF portion for completeness (other federations have similar rules).

As an intellectual exercise, section 7.1 has always been interesting.  Suppose you have an unrated player (0 games played) playing in a large swiss event (say, the Grand Swiss) and is paired with a GM in the first 4 rounds and wins all of those games and then withdraws.  Despite a ~2900 performance rating, he would remain unrated in FIDE until he played another game and all the GMs that lost to him would not lose any rating points (as the games would remain unrated).

Funny, I had heard that it had to have been in one tournament. So are you saying that I was misinformed? If so, that is a massive relief, as it will likely make it easier for me to get a FIDE rating.

It is usually easier to get in a single tournament, but the requirements are just 5 rated opponents where you score at least 1 draw and your rating must be above 1000.  So if you were to play 5 1100s and score 0.5/5, you still would not have a rating because it would be too low.