kylemeister wrote on 04/29/06 at 05:44:34:

I believe the reason why BCF ratings weren't published was that they wanted to make money by selling printed rating lists. But shortly before I finished university in the UK they were talking about changing that and it actually seems to have happened now: http://grading.bcfservices.org.uk/.

You can look up a certain player at http://www.schackcentralen.com/ There are four columns. On the third from the left there are fields called "efternamn eller förnamn" and "klubb (fritext)". Type the name in the first field. Not full namne.

Typing "agrest" gives:

namn: agrest 
klubb: 
distrikt: 
rating: 700 - 2850
 
SPELARE RATING PARTIER KLUBB 
  Evgenij Agrest    2684 download Sollentuna SK 
  Svetlana Agrest   2289  Sollentuna SK 
  Roman Agrest    2060  Sollentuna SK 
  Inna Agrest    1967  Sollentuna SK 
  Anton Agrest    1304  Sollentuna SK 

Typing "Evgenij" gives

namn: Evgenij 
klubb: 
distrikt: 
rating: 700 - 2850
 
SPELARE RATING PARTIER KLUBB 
  Evgenij Agrest    2684 download Sollentuna SK 
  Jevgenij Kravtsenko    1410  Sollentuna SK 

kylemeister wrote on 04/28/06 at 19:40:37:



LASK stands for Lunds Akademiska Schack Klubb, which is the club that started the swedish rating system. Simply put, the system has three columns wins / draws / losses and the rating difference to the left of each e.g: if you draw with someone who has 0-10 points more or less you get 0 rating points and win/loss is +/- 16 ; diff 11-33 you get 15 points for beating a worse player and 17 for beating a better and +/- 1 point for drawing etc etc down to 500 points difference when you 31 for beating an heffalump and 1 for picking a blueberry,  +/- 15  for a draw.