Hello everybody, I'm
President of a small chess club in Gastonia, North Carolina (USA).
We joined Chess Express Ratings, Inc. (CXR) because I thought they could
breathe some life into our club. Man, they did the whole CPR thing
for us!
There we were, just about
flat-lining, when all of a sudden... BZZZZZZZZZT! Excitement was
zapped right back into us. By now you're probably thinking, "This
guy has had one too many brain scans." Well check this out...
We had been together as a club only a
few months and already some of the guys were bored and frustrated.
They asked, "How long does it take to get a rating around here?" and "When
is this rating ever gonna change?" or, "Hey man, if I'm gonna study and
read all this stuff, I wanna see some results pretty quick, or why
bother?" With CXR now I can report our game results right on
their website, and get updated results in just 24 hours. Enthusiasm,
and more importantly attendance, has increased. Now the guys are
back to being excited about chess.
One area of excitement is their "Hot
List". Each month they show who is gaining the most rating points
that month, and the guys try really hard for bragging rights. We
often see our names on the list, right along with the Masters and GMs.
We get ratings (yes, that is plural) updated and categorized in just 24
hours. Statistics like you see in other sports too.
Our players can log in at CXR any time,
day or night, and see their latest ratings: ratings with the White pieces,
Ratings with the Black pieces, uphill ratings (games against higher rated
opponents), downhill ratings (you guessed it, games against lower rated
opponents), fast time control ratings (games in 7-14 minutes), quick time
ratings (15-39 minutes), and longer time controls of 40 minutes or longer.
They even have a rating for playing without a clock.
CHESS EXPRESS RATINGS
PLAYER PERSONAL
FOLIO
for Peter Blanchette
As of 11/08/03 at 16:17:48
|
Player ID |
1701 |
|
Club |
Knights Corner
Chess Club of Gastonia |
|
Club ID |
KCCCG |
|
Official CXR Rating |
1375 |
|
Current X-rating |
1377 (unofficial) |
|
Rating Status |
Rating Established
|
|
Highest Rating
Achieved |
1414
|
|
White Rating
|
1300 |
|
Black Rating
|
1250 |
|
Uphill Rating
|
1206 |
|
Downhill Rating
|
1226 |
|
Speed Rating
|
more games needed |
|
Quick Rating
|
1262 |
|
Regulation Rating
|
1341 |
|
Untimed Rating
|
more games needed |
|
* Total Games Reported |
40 |
|
* Total Games WON |
35 |
|
* Total Games DRAWN |
1 |
|
* Total Games LOST |
4 |
|
* Overall Winning % |
88.8% |
|
* based on activity from April 1, 2003
forward. |
|
|
|
|
Authorization
Level |
Primary Rating
Official for Knights Corner Chess Club of Gastonia
|
|
Date of Birth |
1951-10-01 |
|
Email address |
pblanchette@carolina.rr.com |
|
Player Status |
Active
|
Think about it, what a great learning
tool! Now you can see your strengths and weaknesses. That also
makes it a great weapon; knowing about your opponent before the battle
starts. Even our die-hard USCF rated tournament players like to play CXR games to
hone their skills and not hurt their precious USCF rating.
|
From the
CXR website:
"CXR ratings provide you with
more information than any traditional rating. As you use our service,
you'll find that you have numerous statistics (not only a rating) that
can give you advantages never before available. These statistics can
help you decide what you need to study and practice for further
improvement." |
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Benefits for the Player |
Benefits for Your Club |
-
Annual Dues only $5.00
-
Your personal "Folio" of over a dozen statistics
updated daily!
-
Your CXR rating - a sensitive measure of your
current playing ability
-
CXR rating reflects both tournament and casual play
-
No need to pay costly tournament fees in order to be
rated
-
Rapid feedback on your chess progress
-
New ratings and percentages that isolate:
Your performance with the WHITE pieces
Your performance with the BLACK pieces
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New energy and excitement improve your play
-
Ability to review your Game History in detail
-
Distinctive Player ID Card admits you to CXR Clubs
and Events
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- Your club members save a small fortune on rating costs
- Your club offers the most advanced chess rating service on Earth
- We track over 40 statistics on each of your players
- Your club provides the tools for your players to improve
- Your club offers the fastest rating updates available anywhere
- Enthusiasm about ratings and statistics attracts new members
- Increased excitement and competition encourages more games
- Benefits of CXR service helps your club keep its members
- Revenue from ratings improve your bottom line
- CXR metrics help team captains fine-tune their lineups
- Player ID Cards boost your club's prestige
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Every week, just before we meet on
Saturdays, I go ahead and print out our club's roster (by rating, although
you can get that roster about 18 different ways) to post on our bulletin
board. We can check out all kinds of stuff. Say you have a
brother in another state who is part of CXR, you can
bring up his club roster to see how he's doing - not that he would ever
lie, or exaggerate! You may just want to see how many members are in
that club, or how strong their club is:
CHESS EXPRESS RATINGS
CLUB ROSTER for Knights
Corner Chess Club of Gastonia
For Active and Inactive Players
For Rated and Provisional Players
Shown by Rating
As of 11/08/03 at 16:14:51
|
Player
ID |
First Name |
Last Name |
Club
ID |
Status |
Official
CXR
Rating |
Unofficial
Current
CXR Rating |
Rating
Status |
GvsR |
exp.
pts. |
White
rating |
Black
rating |
Uphill
rating |
Down-
hill
rating |
Speed
rating |
Quick
rating |
|
1709 |
Melvin |
Lyles |
KCCCG |
I |
1512 |
1512 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1532 |
1512 |
1571 |
1531 |
0 |
0 |
|
1708 |
Scott |
gruBell |
KCCCG |
A |
1487 |
1487 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1594 |
1454 |
1562 |
1471 |
0 |
0 |
|
1701 |
Peter |
Blanchette |
KCCCG |
A |
1375 |
1377 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1300 |
1250 |
1206 |
1226 |
0 |
1262 |
|
1707 |
Austin |
Glover |
KCCCG |
A |
1272 |
1272 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1127 |
1250 |
1212 |
1089 |
0 |
0 |
|
1722 |
Emmett |
Smith |
KCCCG |
A |
1265 |
1260 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1289 |
1296 |
1458 |
1338 |
0 |
0 |
|
1713 |
Curtis |
Morrison |
KCCCG |
I |
1206 |
1206 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1201 |
1206 |
1230 |
1195 |
0 |
0 |
|
1712 |
John |
Turlington |
KCCCG |
I |
1200 |
1200 |
P |
0 |
0 |
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
1714 |
Chris |
Willis |
KCCCG |
I |
1169 |
1169 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1149 |
1169 |
1134 |
1170 |
0 |
0 |
|
1715 |
Derek |
Stadther |
KCCCG |
I |
1139 |
1139 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1100 |
1198 |
1185 |
1165 |
0 |
0 |
|
1704 |
Franklin |
Hatcher |
KCCCG |
A |
1133 |
1133 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1142 |
1112 |
1107 |
1076 |
0 |
1090 |
|
1718 |
Dusan |
Krivosik |
KCCCG |
I |
1085 |
1085 |
P |
1 |
24 |
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
1719 |
Martin |
Inman |
KCCCG |
A |
1083 |
1083 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
985 |
1076 |
1047 |
1011 |
0 |
962 |
|
1710 |
Brian |
Ruff |
KCCCG |
I |
1045 |
1045 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
990 |
1026 |
994 |
1000 |
0 |
1025 |
|
1717 |
Jerome |
Wells |
KCCCG |
A |
1042 |
1042 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
1068 |
1067 |
1085 |
1095 |
0 |
0 |
|
1706 |
Charles |
Ruff |
KCCCG |
A |
1010 |
1002 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
985 |
997 |
986 |
1045 |
0 |
941 |
|
1720 |
Rick |
Hooker |
KCCCG |
I |
1000 |
1000 |
P |
0 |
0 |
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
1711 |
Doris |
Goodson |
KCCCG |
I |
981 |
981 |
P |
2 |
48 |
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
1702 |
Kenneth |
McCarver |
KCCCG |
A |
962 |
973 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
904 |
953 |
833 |
914 |
0 |
975 |
|
1716 |
Lee |
Stadther |
KCCCG |
I |
900 |
900 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
0 |
900 |
920 |
920 |
0 |
0 |
|
1721 |
Scott |
Strickland |
KCCCG |
I |
833 |
833 |
P |
1 |
24 |
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
n/a
|
|
1705 |
Dan |
Ruff |
KCCCG |
A |
753 |
753 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
788 |
794 |
772 |
870 |
0 |
792 |
|
1703 |
Carl |
Hanna |
KCCCG |
A |
683 |
683 |
R |
n/a
|
n/a
|
723 |
734 |
730 |
822 |
0 |
728 |
OK, OK, I'm getting carried away here,
but certainly you must see that this is great stuff. And for only $5 a
year! Wow!! That's right, I can save $44 a year!
Here's an area I really like - these
guys listen to what you say, seriously consider your ideas, then act on
it. In most cases really quick. You know how hard it is to get
somebody to listen nowadays? Man, I wish my kids would listen that
good! Here's a few examples:
7/13/03: I suggested there be a
way each club can communicate with each other and share ideas. The
same day we get an Affiliate Directory! Everyone's email address is
now available to all, and boy do we use it!
7/31/03: I suggested a list of
good chess links for all clubs and their members to access. That
one's still pending on some to-do list. Hey, at least they'll try!
7/30/03: I asked them to explain
some of the abbreviations and how they effected our ratings. The
next day I received an explanation and it was handled with great patience
and respect.
8/16/03: I asked for some graphs.
That one is still being worked on.
8/29/03: I asked them to split up
their "Hot List" to separate Provisional players from established players.
A month and a half later we have two separate lists!
Hey, don't
take my word for it. Check them out for yourself at CXR. If
for any reason you don't like what you see there, or if you have any
questions and want some straight answers, contact me (Pete
Blanchette) personally. There's even more great stuff,
but come on man - you gotta do some of the work. So go ahead and
make your day. Spark some life into your chess club!!
PETE (KNIGHTSTALKER)
Here are
screenshots of more of the great stuff you'll find at
Chess eXpress
Ratings:
Hot Streaks Report
This Report Reflects Official CXR Record as of 11/08/03.
LONGEST CURRENT WINNING STREAK
|
Player
ID |
Name |
Club
ID |
Official
CXR
Rating |
unofficial
current
X-rating |
current
Winning
Streak |
|
1522
|
Tyler Cundiff |
LJACC |
1545 |
1572 |
8
|
LONGEST CURRENT UNDEFEATED STREAK
|
Player
ID |
Name |
Club
ID |
Official
CXR
Rating |
unofficial
current
X-rating |
current
Undefeated
Streak |
|
63
|
Julio Becerra |
NYMAS |
2669 |
2702 |
10 |
CHESS EXPRESS RATINGS
National Top 50 Active*
Players by Rating
As of
11/08/03 at 16:21:04
|
Rank |
CXR Rating |
Player Name |
Club ID |
Player ID |
|
1
|
2709
|
Leonid Yudasin |
NYMAS |
39
|
|
2
|
2702
|
Alek
Wojtkiewicz |
NYMAS |
41
|
|
3
|
2691
|
Joel
Benjamin |
NYMAS |
38
|
|
4
|
2688
|
Jaan
Ehlvest |
NYMAS |
33
|
|
5
|
2669
|
Julio Becerra |
NYMAS |
63
|
|
6
|
2651
|
Hikaru Nakamura |
NYMAS |
61
|
|
7
|
2642
|
Alex
Stripunsky |
NYMAS |
37
|
|
8
|
2611
|
Yury
Shulman |
NYMAS |
64
|
|
9
|
2578
|
Pavel Blatny |
NYMAS |
49
|
|
10
|
2571
|
Victor Mikhalevski |
NYMAS |
53
|
|
11
|
2561
|
Yury
Lapshun |
NYMAS |
50
|
|
12
|
2449
|
Dean
Ippolito |
NYMAS |
40
|
|
13
|
2449
|
Irina Krush |
NYMAS |
35
|
|
14
|
2445
|
Christian Maier |
NYMAS |
54
|
|
15
|
2445
|
Greg
Shahade |
NYMAS |
32
|
|
16
|
2392
|
Justin Sarkar |
NYMAS |
45
|
|
17
|
2385
|
Greg
Braylovsky |
NYMAS |
46
|
|
18
|
2385
|
Jay
Bonin |
NYMAS |
34
|
|
19
|
2376
|
Jayson Gonzalez |
NYMAS |
51
|
|
20
|
2367
|
Yevgeny Margulis |
NYMAS |
159
|
|
21
|
2352
|
Jennifer Shahade |
NYMAS |
31
|
|
22
|
2350
|
Asa
Hoffmann |
NYMAS |
60
|
|
23
|
2349
|
Boris Privman |
NYMAS |
42
|
|
24
|
2342
|
David Pruess |
NYMAS |
62
|
|
25
|
2339
|
Erez
Klein |
NYMAS |
67
|
|
26
|
2335
|
Daniel Meinking |
NYMAS |
68
|
|
27
|
2318
|
Yevgeniy Gershov |
NYMAS |
75
|
|
28
|
2303
|
Ilye
Figler |
NYMAS |
52
|
|
29
|
2295
|
Martha Fierro |
NYMAS |
66
|
|
30
|
2290
|
Ruben Reyes |
WMCHI |
1535
|
|
31
|
2279
|
Denis Marrero |
GREEN |
132
|
|
32
|
2265
|
Negash Bezaleel |
MICHA |
1824
|
|
33
|
2240
|
Marc
Esserman |
NYMAS |
59
|
|
34
|
2215
|
Laura Ross |
NYMAS |
161
|
|
35
|
2204
|
Stan
Vaughan |
GREEN |
130
|
|
36
|
2188
|
Adam
Maltese |
NYMAS |
165
|
|
37
|
2186
|
Ervin Matthew |
NYMAS |
47
|
|
38
|
2180
|
Rafal Furdzik |
NYMAS |
43
|
|
39
|
2179
|
Teddy Coleman |
NYMAS |
44
|
|
40
|
2173
|
John
A Blackstone |
GREEN |
127
|
|
41
|
2169
|
Cornelius Rubsamen |
WMCHI |
1555
|
|
42
|
2154
|
Jorge Barrios |
GREEN |
133
|
|
43
|
2149
|
Edward Gaillard |
NYMAS |
160
|
|
44
|
2130
|
John
Fernandez |
NYMAS |
80
|
|
45
|
2128
|
Leonid Zakinov |
NYMAS |
36
|
|
46
|
2113
|
Ben
Johnson |
NYMAS |
167
|
|
47
|
2109
|
David Franklin |
NYMAS |
74
|
|
48
|
2104
|
Philip Ross |
NYMAS |
162
|
|
49
|
2092
|
Jeff
Mitchell |
NYMAS |
71
|
|
50
|
2052
|
Jonathan Corbblah |
NYMAS |
72
|
Adding new players to the
system is simple, and is done right on the
CXR website:
Visit
CXR
today, and learn more about this great tool!
* A very small contribution to this review was provided
by your humble
Publisher. Any errors are therefore his.
