Rating Report of WCDF commitee available!

[Ingo_Zachos]

Dear checkers/draughts friend,

the first rating report of the WCDF committee for rating & titles is available now!!

It contains the rating list and the list of title holders that were appoved by the General Assembly at Stonehaven.

A list similar to this one will be published by us every half year from now on.

Here is the Top 10 and the Top 10 Women's list:

1 GM Ronald King 2659 BAR
2 GM Alexander Moiseyev 2623 USA
3 GM Richard Hallett 2567 USA
4 GM William Docherty 2561 SCO
5 GM Tom Watson 2546 SCO
6 GM Jack Francis 2546 BAR
7 GM Ed Bruch 2494 USA
8 IM Sean Cronin 2485 IRL
9 IM Richard Beckwith 2475 USA
10 IM Louis Cowie 2472 USA

1 WGM Patricia Breen 2337 IRL
2 WGM Amangul Durdyev 2322 TKM
3 WGM Joan Caws 2162 ENG
4 WIM Jan Mortimer 2150 NZL
5 Joyann Branch 1839 BAR
6 WIM Wilma Wolverton 1832 USA
7 Javzan Gerelchuluun 1760 MON
8 Samantha Holder 1728 BAR
9 Kim Willis 1716 USA
10 Alena Sorokina 1659 CZE

Also included is the full list of WCDF-approved title holders.
Here is the list of Grandmasters (GM):

Ed Bruch 2494 USA M
Paul Davis 0 USA M
Hugh Devlin 2463 IRL M
William Docherty 2561 SCO M
Jack Francis 2546 BAR M
Jimmy Grant 2446 SCO M
Richard Hallett 2567 USA M
Ronald King 2659 BAR M
Leo Levitt 2369 USA M
Elbert Lowder 2398 USA M
John McGill 0 SCO M
Alexander Moiseyev 2623 USA M
Jim Morrison 2468 USA M
Richard Pask 2527 ENG M
Tom Watson 2546 SCO M


Who want to get the report should sent me an email:

nimzo@gmx.de


Greetinx from sunny and bright Dortmund, Germany

Ingo Zachos

[Dennis Pawlek]

I have uploaded the rating file to the German Draughts Association Homepage. Everybody who is interested can download it from http://www.checkers-online.de

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Ingo, starting tomorrow I am going to check my mail box every day - waiting when GM diploma ( or certificate) arrive.

Thanks in advance ! I am sure - it will be one of the most memorable checkers documents in my library. And perhaps same level excitement for all other title holders.

WCDF should not miss this oppotunity !

If if you need my address - let me know. Or you can simply type on envelope: "USA, Alex Moiseyev" and it will also find my house.

Respectfully,

Alex

[tommyc]

mmm Nice one Alex.....you do have a good memory!! GM food and now GM Diplomas....ill have some of that.

I wonder will they recognise Mail players also.???..Ingo??

[Ingo_Zachos]

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I wonder will they recognise Mail players also.???..Ingo??

Sorry, Tommy, but... no

Mail play is not included in our rating and we do not award titles for mail play yet.

BTW: Which organisation is running the mail ty's?
Maybe you could do what the chess correspodence players did:
to found a special federation that is a regular member of the World's federation (WCDF) and awards titles that the World fedaration recognizes.

Greetinx from sunny Europe,

Ingo Zachos

[mday]

mmm Nice one Alex.....you do have a good memory!! GM food and now GM Diplomas....ill have some of that.

I wonder will they recognise Mail players also.???..Ingo??

Nope.

[tommyc]

Thats just plain discrimination Ingo.........and if i wanted to be a chess player id join a chess club ,and there was me thinking i was a member of a draughts Federation and we were all the one BIG happy family.

Too bad. Im disapointed almost ready to cry.

[mday]

Make your own Mail play ratings list. Make sure to have Kingsrow and Cake included in their names too

[Alex_Moiseyev]

Ingo / Igor,

Indeed today I don't have most cross tables from old events, but matches are still available

So, you can add to your list of events 2000 3 moves 7th International match from 2001

Alex

[Ingo_Zachos]

Hi Alex,

it might be we have already rated this event, as before 2005 George Miller calculated the list, and we might have just omitted it on the list that we made later, but anyway sent it in to my email address, so we can check it.

We r thankful for every crosstable we can get .
We will not change this report anymore (it is now "official", though may still have some errors), but the results may have an impact on our next rating report, if we don't have it.

Also, if you or anyone else detects an error in spelling, wrong gender, wrong nationality, deceased players on the list or any missing event, he or she might tell it to me!

I am sorry that you will have to wait for the diplomas, as we have not yet turned to this detail, just be patient.
In fact we have not quite finished our work on title regulations yet, and we all do it in our spare time.

Greetinx from hot Europe,

Ingo Zachos

[tommyc]

Mail play is not included in our rating and we do not award titles for mail play yet??.

Can expand on that quote.

[rich beckwith]

I suppose a "mail rating list" could be compiled if someone is willing to gather and process world mail play events, I-D tournaments, etc. However, I don't see how you can intermingle a mail rating list with the main "face-to-face" list because of the impact of book and computer assistance. In some of the past U.S. I-D mail events, some weak-major level players and other unknowns have suddenly turned into top masters when the game shifts to mail play.

Alex has previously suggested to me extending titles to the mail players, which would includes GMs who have held the world title such as Richard Fortman, Jerry Childers, and Mac Banks (and probably others I am missing).

[mday]

In my opinion I don't think the WCDF should give GM titles to mail players using mail play results. Who would disagree?

Doesn't mail play have their own federation? Is Mac Banks the Pres. for this federation? I recall him accepting a world match challenge - I know he can do this, but I would expect this to go through some type of federation first? Or is it just all organized through email now? It seemed like Banks just accepted the challenge against Canning and they just went to some mail-play website and played.[/i]

[Alex_Moiseyev]

In my opinion I don't think the WCDF should give GM titles to mail players

In my opinion - without mail play and mail players checkers would be different today. As Dr. Beckwith mentioned - my proposition 2 years ago was affective ACF titles which we wanted to introduce and I wanted to award the past mail play World Champions by ACF GM titles.

I planned to do this in order to recognise their exceptional role and efforts developing checkers and bringing checkers to the new level and higher standards of play. Without mail players (mostly) - we would not have new opening on ballots today.

I thought and still thinking that this would be a nice and important gesture - awarding players like R. Fortman, J. Childer, G. Miller, M. Banks and few other by titles.

This is restrictly promotional action. I didn't propose to treat mail rating etc. Whats wrong by awarding Mr. For tman GM title ?????

WCDF already awarded several USA and UK players by GM titles based on their past performance (not current) and I highly appreciate this.

Just one more step ahead. Leave conservatism behind !

Respectfully,

Alex Moiseyev

[Mr. Checkers]

If I may add to this to the mix I would also suggest recognizing renown "checker problemists", "collectors", "authors of checker books", "publishers of checker magazines" etc., etc. for without them our game would not be where it is today either. As it stands now the only people that have ever been given any credit for doing anything in checkers are the players, which is definately a biased way of thinking about what has made our game the game it is today--and it is certainly not true in any respect.