Submitting Results played outside Scotland

for CHESS SCOTLAND (CS) Grading

 

Self-Submission Games played by individuals outside Scotland will be graded by Chess Scotland (CS) if the individual, or the manager in charge of a Scottish team, submits the results directly to the Chief Grader. This only applies to Main List results - rapidplay games played outside Scotland will not be graded.

Results will only be included for CS members. If you are not currently a member join now and any outside Scotland results for this season can be retrospectively included.

Example of how to submit data:

To submit data please list results in the following format.

Your name, Your pnum,

Name of Event, Dates of event,

Your Colour - Name of opponent - opponent's grade - source of grade (is it a CS Grade, FIDE grade or an ECF grade - the order of priority is CS, FIDE, ECF) - the result from your point of view 1, 0, 0.5 or words WIN, LOSS, DRAW.

For example:

Jonathan Rowson, pnum 5864,

British Championship, August 7-18 2006,

1) Black v Bret Addison 2241 (FIDE) 1,
2) White v Max Devereux 2377 (FIDE) 0.5,

etc.

Please email the list of results to grading@chessscotland.com

Please note it is not sufficient to point out a web page where a crosstable exists as the result submission. All the data has to be manually input so you can help the grading process if you use the format indicated and type out your list of results.

Leading Players NB: It is expected that all leading adult and junior players will submit all results. This is not optional. To ensure that all selections are made on the same basis all leading junior and senior players must submit all results.

General Player International selection will not be an issue for the majority of players. In those cases it is up to the individual player to decide what they want to do about games they play outside Scotland. CS will be happy to rate outside results free of charge for members only. Games outside Scotland will not be rated for non-members. Players must be consistent in the way they submit outside results. Either you submit all your outside results every year or you submit none. You cannot be selective.

What is your opponent's grade? The biggest difficulty in rating results outside Scotland is getting an accurate rating figure for the opponent.

When submitting results please use the following rules (see notes below):

1) If the player has a CS rating use that first; if no CS rating use FIDE; if no CS or FIDE rating use ECF (English); if none of these ratings available then the game is ignored.

2) Unrated players are ignored for rating purposes.

 

Notes:

English Ratings English Chess Federation grades are available online at http://grading.bcfservices.org.uk/

FIDE Ratings To try and simplify the reporting of outside results we want to use FIDE grades wherever possible. This has become easier since FIDE are progressively reducing the level at which ratings are published. From 2005 the level was reduced to 1601. FIDE ratings are easy to check since they are published online.

Unrateds Previously it had been CS policy to make estimates for unrated players, however after discussions it has been agreed that this is too complicated (for outside games, estimates will continue for unrated players in domestic events). Games against unrated players will be ignored for rating calculations regardless of the result of the game.

National Not all federations operate rating systems which produce the same rating number for players of similar strength. The Chief Grader only has easy access to FIDE or BCF (English) ratings. It can be extremely difficult to get a verifiable national grade for some opponents eg the Botswana Rating list might be tricky to get hold of. So to simplify reporting FIDE or BCF will be used, two easily checked "foreign" ratings. (July 2003 amendment) It should also be possible to use Irish and Welsh ratings where appropriate.

Best Judgement The Chief Grader will endeavour to use his best judgement to modify the above general rules where necessary eg we usually try and give some sort of credit for all games in Scotland v Wales and Ireland junior matches. However for the "better" player it makes sense to operate a simplified, objective system ie 1) Submit all your results 2) FIDE Ratings or ECF used 3) Unrateds don't count.

Junior additions These will not apply to outside results. FIDE grades are now published four times a year and should therefore be able to reflect the improvement of juniors more accurately. ECF (English) grades already include junior additions.

Submit results or Queries To submit results or ask about outside result submission e-mail the the CS Chief Grader