FIDE no longer allows public viewing of player’s rating history. If you view a player’s profile and click on the ratings progress link, you are taken to a login page, and told:
“According to Regulations on Registration & Licensing of Players archives and statistics data on FIDE Ratings website is available for registered users. Please use your FIDE Arena account, FIDE Ratings server account or create a new account at arena.myfide.net/register”.
It also says “More information can be found at:” and then gives a link…to the advanced search page instead of to anything with more information on this change.
Anyone know what’s behind this change? Are they having trouble getting people to sign up for FIDE Arena so need to provide more incentive?