Every effort is made to ensure that this list is as accurate as possible. Statistical checks on the integrity of the list are performed. Additionally, among other things:
1) Events are monitored to ensure, as far as possible, that nothing slips the net. There is constant contact between the ECF and the local Rating Officers.
2) To view a list of Rated Events click on "Events" in the menu above
But errors of detail will occur, and the ECF is always ready to correct them. Corrections will then appear in this online list. Revised ratings will be re-calculated and published where the correction affected games played in the past six months.
To notify an error:
1) Player details. Please let us know if your name (or your age, or other detail) is incorrectly recorded. Email the Rating Administrator at [email protected].
Also let the Administrator know if you find you have two (or more) different entries in the list. He can easily merge them. Until they are merged, your rating calculations may be incorrect.
2) Game results. Players are advised to check that their current-season results (as published on this site) are correct. Please check as the season progresses. Remember, however, that games will not appear immediately. Many Leagues report only twice a year, and congresses vary in promptness. (Check "Events" above.)
In the case of incorrect or missing results, your first contact should normally be with the organisers of the event. The ECF can only rate what organisers send. But it will always correct errors which can be confirmed by the organiser, by the local Rating Officer, or indeed by the opponent.
Do not worry about incorrect or meaningless board numbers, or even incorrect colours. Such errors are not rare, but they have no effect on rating. Game dates are sometimes approximations, especially in the case of club internal events where dates may not be known.
Club affiliations
One class of correction is usually not feasible: club affiliations cannot be always up to date.
Your most recent known club will be listed, whatever its vintage. Otherwise, clubs listed are those you have been associated with over the last two or three years.
Please do not write to say you have joined a new club, or left an old one as the system is automated.
Your new club will be registered automatically as soon as the ECF receives results going with it. Your old club will disappear automatically after two or three years, and in the meantime is useful for identification purposes.
Sometimes the automatic deletion fails because organisers have gone on quoting your old club (don't let them do this!). Please write if a lapsed club, other than your most recent, lingers for more than three years.
Club Corrections
If the entry for your Nominal Club on the rating database shows a
Club affiliation which is different from the Club you wish to be shown,
we would be happy to change this.
In that case, please email the rating administrator at [email protected]
indicating: your name, your rating code, the club currently
shown, and the Club you wish to be shown. This change will take
effect from the date of the next updating of ratings which usually occurs monthly.