


Submitting the tournament rating report will follow exactly the same procedures in the TD/A area that tournament directors are familiar processing.

Please remember: US Chess membership requirements have not changed and it remains the TD’s responsibility to ensure all participants are current members. Starting June 1, 2020, all online-only events will be charged ratings fees equivalent to regular OTB events ($0.25/game). Update on May 11: US Chess has extended the waiver of all ratings fees for online-only events through May 31, 2020. Online-blitz events encompass time controls between G/3 +2 and up to G/10 d/0, while online-quick events use a time control between G/10 +1 up to G/29 d/0. The motion only provides for online-quick or online-blitz events at this time, meaning that any such events cannot use a time control slower than Game/29 and also cannot be FIDE rated. Please note: these events will not affect players OTB ratings, but fall into a separate category of US Chess rated events. These events will appear in members’ MSA history with “ONL” in front of the ratings update. US Chess has modified the TD/Affiliate event submission area to include a check box for online rated events. This motion, while defining online play as ratable strictly through the “online-only” category in the US Chess database, actually expands affiliate privileges as now any qualifying affiliate can run online-quick or online-blitz rated tournaments, effective immediately. Online play shall not be used to update players' over-the-board ratings. On March 25, 2020, the US Chess Executive Board passed the following motion 7-0: The Executive Board (EB) moves that all games submitted by Tournament Directors (TDs) for rating that were played online via the internet or by other means specified in Chapter 10 of the Rules of Chess (7th Ed.) shall only affect players' online ratings.
