This web site reached version 1.0 and took over completely from the old ICU rating system on August 24, 2012, after about a year spent in transition between the two systems. It's the culmination of a long-standing ambition and work that started in earnest in 2008.
Anyone (without logging in) can access the following information on this site:
- Rating Lists published in January, May and September every year
- Weighted Average Ratings used for international selection
- Top Juniors for players under 21
- Top Improvers between any two dates from September 2001
- Tournament cross tables
These features are similar or better to what was offered by the old system, but when a current ICU member logs in to this site (using the same email and password as for the main site) the following new features become available:
- The member is taken to their own home page which has:
- rating changes from recent tournaments
- top tournament gains and losses
- top individual game gains and losses
- graphs of historical ICU and FIDE ratings
- Tournaments rating calculations are:
- available as soon as their reports have been processed (without waiting for the next rating list)
- presented in full detail for each player in an easy to understand layout
Other new features include:
- Articles to explain how the ICU rating system works
- A context sensitive Help button at the top of many pages
- Tournament organisers may now load rating reports onto this site themselves (rather than emailing them to the rating officer)
- The system checks each report, detects certain types of errors and provides editing facilities for their correction
- Other errors, once discovered, can be corrected, tournaments rerated and rating lists republished no matter how long ago the error occurred
Related links:
- To become a member of the ICU you can subscribe online
- If you are already a member but have not yet registered a login account, please see this article