I know several organizers that have on their web pages references to past tournaments which are coded with the links to the old MSA site.
Can the old MSA site domain automatically do re-directs for these to the new MUIR site?
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MSA will remain online until we have all the function on that computer that we’re going to keep moved to other computers, probably a few months into 2026.
At that point, we can set something up so that links to MSA get redirected to MUIR, which shouldn’t be difficult.
Here’s what a MSA crosstable link looks like:
Here’s the same event on MUIR
Should be easy to rewrite the URLs
With the player/rating lookup now changed to MUIR instead of MSA it would be difficult to find the old tournaments.
For that matter, to see a TD’s certification level (which is not showing up on MUIR) I went into the TD/affiliate portal to look at a TD’s experience since that also shows the current certification level (along with showing the tournament experience that MUIR lost).
We’re working on getting TD history fully working on MUIR and all the old history transferred over again and on a way to display TD history as well.
As to displaying events, here’s the link to an event on MSA:
https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202510193772
Here’s the link to that event on MUIR:
https://ratings.uschess.org/event/202510193772
When we shut down MSA, hopefully in the first half of 2026, we should be able to set up a permanent forward from MSA to MUIR, though I’m not sure at the moment where we’d do that. (That’s probably a question for Emanuel.)
The legacy TD Experience program (the orange link towards the bottom of your member dashboard) has been updated to include MUIR events through earlier today. (We will probably update the events from MUIR about once a week until we get an updated TD Experience tool on MUIR.)
It also includes a TD’s SafeSport certification information and that field will be updated if they’re active as a TD on MUIR. (The legacy system tables don’t have updated SafeSport information, but I copied the information over for over 1300 TDs with SafeSport certification.)
This updated program has been marked as ‘experimental’ because there could be some issues with it. (It timed out on me when I was trying to display a TD with several thousands events to his credit.) There could be other issues.
For those asking, as far as I can tell the TD history data on MUIR is OK in the database, except that I don’t think it has legacy tournment-level assistant chief TD credits. Most of the display issues that have been reported appear to be messed up by the MUIR display code. But if you see errors or omissions with this updated (legacy) tool, let us know.
This is a fairly big omission considering the experience credits.
Yeah, and there’s an open ticket to fix it, but it probably isn’t the highest priority ticket in the system.
Top 100 lists are probably higher. And quite a few people are awaiting the Norms/Milestones data on MUIR.
And the update to the legacy TD Experience tool I made today uses the legacy system records for events from the TD/A/MSA era and the MUIR system for events since MUIR opened up, so there’s time for the MUIR database to get corrected. (The display bug on MUIR TD records is a bigger issue, IMHO.)
On this note - I think you mentioned that the larger usergroup would be getting some visibility into the state of the system; is there any update on that?
Bryan Tillis is preparing that, and he was busy last week with the National K-12, so hopefully he’ll get to that this week. I think he’ll be posting it on US Chess Online. (We don’t have a facility on MUIR yet for posting announcements, got left out of the specs somehow.)