Online Grading Service

The online grading service for Chess Scotland members was created by programmer Alex Bisset of Aberdeen in 2001. The highlight of the system is the opportunity to check your latest grade online anytime during the season. Simply type in your grading PNUM which you can find in the printed grading list or the member checklist. Join Chess Scotland now and see how your grade is calculated.

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March 2008: Grading updates continue on Wednesdays - with online lookup revised usually late Wednesday or early Thursday. Check your record carefully to ensure no data is missing or results have been recorded incorrectly. For missing results ask the organiser if they have submitted the data yet - for incorrect results email both the person who compiled the data (given at the top of events) and grading@chessscotland.com and the error will be amended.

December 20 2007: A topic which has come up three times already this season is an area grader changing computers during the grading season. This will cause some problems if the area grader has added dummy players. The solution is as follows: Download the gradingsetup.exe to the new computer and run it - download master.zip and extract it to the CSGradings directory. The only difference from a new grader is you copy the local.mdb from the old machine, rather than download a new one. (If you download a new local all the dummy numbering will start again and be out of synch with what is held on the central database).

Existing Area Graders (who have yet to supply any data this season) can download the latest master.zip as normal. Then switch "current season" to 2007-2008 and the program is ready to input data. The existing local database will be empty for the new season.

For a completely new area grader follow the instructions on the FAQ page. (Worth reading for existing area graders too).

October 1 2007: Grading data is being uploaded once a week usually on Wednesdays. Some people have wondered why tournament reports can feature on the home page with grading reports but an individual's online grade display may not include that data. This is because these are separate operations. It is not yet an automatic process whereby the new upload goes into online lookup. Eventually it will be automated but at the moment it requires manual intervention so there may be a delay of a few days between the Wednesday upload and the revised online lookup. The online lookup page does state the date of the most recent database included.

August 5 2007: Online lookup returns! Thanks to programmer Gordon Rattray who has developed a PHP version of online grading. Software issues meant it was not possible to make a simple copy of the existing online service and move it to the new hosting site. Therefore all the previous facilities are not yet there. Further updates will be made when time permits.

August 5 2007: Existing Area Graders can download the latest master.zip as normal. Then switch "current season" to 2007-2008 and the program is ready to input data. The local database will be empty for the new season. New area graders just follow the instructions on the FAQ page. NB: Current season is 2007-2008.

Area Graders: If you want to supply grading data please see the Area Grader page.

ECF Lookup: The English Chess Federation online database. To convert grades to CS multiply by 8 and add 600.

FIDE Lookup: World chess federation database

Feedback: If you have any comments about the new system please contact grading@chessscotland.com

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