I have reached 2200 regular rating last month, but I’m not nominated NM title yet. At least I don’t see it in the Milestones (Member id: 32196360)
How long it usually takes to get the title?
Congratulations on NM.
Game Stats and Norms - #11 by nolan as far as I could tell, the milestones are broken since the transition from MSA to MUIR.
We don’t have a tool for manually entering titles and other milestones yet, I’m not sure when we’ll have one.
I just sent the director of member services a list of 67 players who have an established regular OTB rating of 2200 or higher since 10/1/25 but do not currently have the National Master title listed among their milestones. The OP in this thread is one of them.
National Master certificates should be in the mail this week. We may have a workaround to get titles into MUIR until we have a milestones editing tool there.
I also sent him a list of 28 players who appear to eligible for the Original Life Master title, ie, ones with 300 or more games with a pre-event established regular rating of 2200 or higher.
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What about new FIDE titles? I see some were updated, probably manually, but not mine. I received the shiny certificate and it shows on FIDE since mid September. I hoped the USCF ratings pages would know about it after the October FIDE Rating List was published, but no dice (on both MSA and MUIR). By the way, I know I’m not alone and do not take it personally.
That one’s more complicated, I’m told.
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It looks like manual update is the way to go for FIDE titles. I got lucky.
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Lol
AUTOMATIC updates is the way to go for FIDE titles. Especially since Muir is probably already using the monthly FRL for us chess rating initialization if the member doesnt already have one of the 6 us chess ratings to initialize from.
I’m sure automatic updates for FIDE titles is coming soon. I don’t know if they are planning on using an API, or downloading the file once a month, and just cross referencing. Mike likely has more details.
The legacy system had a tool that downloaded files (the latest FRL and the ‘all-players’ file) from the FIDE website daily and checked for updated FIDE information for every player with a FIDE ID in their member record. We do not yet have a replacement for that, nor are we sure where that needs to reside, since we want FIDE information available in MUIR as well as in the membership system/member dashboard.
If FIDE has an API for accessing that information, nobody has ever told me about it. FIDE does not communicate IT matters well, they’ve changed the format of the FRL and all-players file several times with no advance warning or revised field dictionary.
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Hi Nolan, any update on this thread? I still haven’t received the certificate, and the Milestones page doesn’t appear to be updated yet.
We’re still in transition, I know the office staff is about to send out certificates for NM titles earned through mid-January, the interface for posting them on the website is almost ready but that will be a manual process for now so it might take a while to post the NM titles earned since the end of October (somewhere around 100 of them, as I recall.)
The second stage of this process will be to automate the task of awarding NM titles as they’re earned. That might take another month.
Hi Nolan,
Do you have a rough estimate of when the certificates will be sent out/milestones updated for the new National Masters? It doesn’t seem like the player I know who achieved the title in December has his milestones updated, and I would like to know if I can expect the process to be completed in the coming weeks.
I know the office sent out a batch of National Master certificates a few weeks ago and they have another list of NMs to work on.
A tool to allow manual titles to be entered into the MUR system is in the testing phase, but there are several hundred such records to enter so doing them manually will take time.