i understand the reasoning

[10mostwanted]

just read the account of Mr Josev Omar Aquino being dq’d from the u1700 section at the washington chess congress as his foreign rating put him over 1700. just curious; say he doesn’t play any tournaments except on-line and achieves a >1700 online rating, can he still be dq’d even though his old otb rating he is still <1700?

thanks, …scot…

[10mostwanted]

i guess this might fall under the anti-cheating thread in the uscf issues forum.

[BobMessenger]

I’ve moved this topic from All Things Chess to Running Chess Tournaments.

[relyea]

@10mostwanted

just read the account of Mr Josev Omar Aquino being dq’d from the u1700 section at the washington chess congress as his foreign rating put him over 1700. just curious; say he doesn’t play any tournaments except on-line and achieves a >1700 online rating, can he still be dq’d even though his old otb rating he is still <1700?

thanks, …scot…

Yes. If a player seems to be too low rated, the TD can assign him a higher (not lower) rating. Please see 28E for details.

Alex Relyea

[jwiewel]

@relyea

@10mostwanted

just read the account of Mr Josev Omar Aquino being dq’d from the u1700 section at the washington chess congress as his foreign rating put him over 1700. just curious; say he doesn’t play any tournaments except on-line and achieves a >1700 online rating, can he still be dq’d even though his old otb rating he is still <1700?

thanks, …scot…

Yes. If a player seems to be too low rated, the TD can assign him a higher (not lower) rating. Please see 28E for details.

Alex Relyea

I wasn’t there and I don’t do any CCA events outside of IL, but an old 1565 Philippines rating converts to 1850 for CCA pairing and prize purposes and apparently should be used instead of the almost 7 year old and provisional 1595 US Chess rating.

from
chesstour.com/foreignratings.htm
ADJUSTMENTS TO CONVERT DWZ (GERMAN) OR NCFP (PHILIPPINE) RATINGS TO USCF FOR PAIRING/PRIZE PURPOSES IN CCA EVENTS:
DWZ/NCFP 1510-1589= USCF 1850