| Sam Sloan 2004-12-28, 12:45 am |
| On 28 Dec 2004 04:13:43 GMT, rmille9601@aol.com (RMille9601) wrote:
quote:
>Washington and Oregon use to have a rating system started in the 1950 or 60's
>by Robert Karch and ended in 1980's I think when a rating director died and the
>officers of Oregon and Washington Chess Federations decided to no longer have a
>rating service. Believe I have written about this before.
The Virginia State Chess Association had a rating system in the 1950s.
The rating statistician was none other than Claude Bloodgood. The
ratings stopped coming out when he went to prison.
Chess Friends of Northern California also had a rating system.
These altenative rating systems all failed and eventually everyone
adopted USCF ratings.
Sam Sloan
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