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Individual Ratings
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About your chess rating
Ratings and the ASCF: All of the chess tournaments we sponsor, and tournaments elsewhere, are sanctioned by the American Scholastic Chess Federation (ASCF). Nearly always, membership in the ASCF is required in order to participate.
The ASCF uses the worldwide popular ELO rating system for its members, named after its creator, Arpad Elo. By playing in tournaments, players earn a rating, which rises each time a player wins, and falls each time a player loses. The rating of the opponent is a major component of the formula.
Let's Discuss Ratings
Children place great value in their ratings, a fact we find mildly disturbing. Players sometimes play considerably below their capability when they notice that their opponent's rating is much higher or lower than their own. As a result, we make every effort to reduce the significance of a player's rating.
Contrary to the belief held by some, a chess rating has no relationship to the child's value as a human being. It takes weeks for a rating to be computed. The results of each tournament are sent to this website, where they get rated. Then we plug the results into our computer, which computes new ratings. Ratings are published the 1st and 15h of every month. Players may learn their ratings by looking them up on Rating Finder. Sometimes a player's rating does not go down, even though the player is losing a lot. That is the effect of the rating floor. Once a player earns an "established" rating (after playing 20 games), that rating will not fall below the next hundred point group, rounded down to the next hundred. For example, a player with an established rating of 1180 has "floor" of 1000.
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