A good friend of mine told me he got his very first USCF rating of 1847 when he drew GM Bill Lombardy in a simultaneous exhibition in Pittsburgh in 1958 or 59.
Any historians out there who have info that this was a USCF policy then?
Dan
In the 1950’s, USCF was using the Harkness System for ratings, which is fundamentally different from the Elo system.
I’m not aware of any prohibition on rating simuls, so long as players know that the games are rated.
IIRC, long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, in his days running tournaments at Northwestern University, Bill Smythe ran a series of weekend events that included a quadrangular (4 person round robins on Sat or Sunday) and a hexagonal (6 person round robins on Sat and Sunday). As I recall, one weekend, a player named Barry Bouton played in both the quads and the hexagonal, effectively performing a simul every round.
Also, in one U.S. Masters, NM Greg Small had a late game and two adjournments to complete after the games. He played both adjournments simultaneously because of the late hour.
I can’t quote you a source, but it was authorized and the authority was undoubtedly published in Chess Life.