USCF rated tournaments on Chess.com

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HansSchmendrick

Greetings. I am trying to figure out if there are USCF rated tournaments on this site. Supposedly there are but when I turned over my USCF membership info and tried to register I heard nothing back. I have been playing on the ICC site for USCF tournaments but vastly prefer Chess.com. If anyone knows how to expedite this do let me know. Thanks, HS

Martin_Stahl
HansSchmendrick wrote:

Greetings. I am trying to figure out if there are USCF rated tournaments on this site. Supposedly there are but when I turned over my USCF membership info and tried to register I heard nothing back. I have been playing on the ICC site for USCF tournaments but vastly prefer Chess.com. If anyone knows how to expedite this do let me know. Thanks, HS

 

Yes, there are. It requires two things; filling out the authentication form and clicking join on the club page, for the chess.com affiliate/official club.

 

https://www.chess.com/club/uschess-members-only

 

We only contact people that have problems with their forms and do not send invites if there is a form and no corresponding join request.

HansSchmendrick

I have filled out this form three times over the last several months and had zero response. What to do? Thanks.

Martin_Stahl
HansSchmendrick wrote:

I have filled out this form three times over the last several months and had zero response. What to do? Thanks.

 

As I said, if you only fill out the form you won't get contacted unless there is a problem with the form. If you want to be in the club you also have to click Join on the club page.

Martin_Stahl
DamonevicSmithlov wrote:

Do I need to renew my uscf membership to join that club? It's a club right? 

Edit: it looks like only current members.

Also, those online games aren't rated for regular uscf otb purposes it looks like. Its just a separate online rating, right?

 

The club is only open to current members of the US Chess Federation.

Martin_Stahl

Correct on the rating. US Chess has three OTB ratings and two Online ratings. Any game played online can only impact the Online ratings.

HansSchmendrick

Got it and makes perfect sense though I didn't see it in the instructions. Thanks again, hs

AkibaPetroff
Martin_Stahl wrote:

Correct on the rating. US Chess has three OTB ratings and two Online ratings. Any game played online can only impact the Online ratings.

It is the other way around. OTB Quick Rating = OTB Regular Rating, OTB Blitz Rating, | Online Regular, Online Quick, Online Blitz.

Martin_Stahl
AkibaPetroff wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:

Correct on the rating. US Chess has three OTB ratings and two Online ratings. Any game played online can only impact the Online ratings.

It is the other way around. OTB Quick Rating = OTB Regular Rating, OTB Blitz Rating, | Online Regular, Online Quick, Online Blitz.

When I posted there were only two online rating pools. There are three OTB rating pools as well, though some events are dual rated (quick) and there are also time controls that are Quick and Regular only.

tanishkanike1205

I renewed my USCF membership but still i could not see any USCF rated tournaments.

Martin_Stahl
tanishkanike1205 wrote:

I renewed my USCF membership but still i could not see any USCF rated tournaments.

If you mean here then just having an active membership doesn't do anything. You have to be part of a club that holds them to see them.

Ou812Papa

We have a small club and want to run in-house USCF Rated Tournaments.

Is there information somewhere on how to do this?
Does Chess.com do the pairings?
Does Chess.com upload results to USCF?

Martin_Stahl
Ou812Papa wrote:

We have a small club and want to run in-house USCF Rated Tournaments.

Is there information somewhere on how to do this?
Does Chess.com do the pairings?
Does Chess.com upload results to USCF?

It completely depends on how you want to do it.

You can do manual pairings, have members challenge each other, report results, and do everything like you would in an in person event. Record and submit the same way as well.

You could have a private club here, with only members you have verified to have current US Chess memberships and you know who they are or have used the site provided verification method. Then set up a club tournament for that club so they can join. Be aware there is a minimum number of players needed for Swiss events to start, which I think is 4.

For reporting the event, you have some options. You can download the cross table for a scheduled tournament played here and I think there are some instructions somewhere (on YouTube for sure) on how to get that data imported into a pairing program so you can export to the US Chess expected format. Or the TD can log into the US Chess site and use the manual tournament entry option to get the pairings and results into the web interface. It's a little harder to do but for smaller events certainly possible.