If you didn’t know this player’s ID number, how would you find him in the MSA search function below:
uschess.org/msa/MbrDtlMain.php?14835271
If you use the NEW Player-Rating lookup page, and look him up just using his last name, Prem, then you are basically out of luck. There are hundreds of matches, with no clue as to which might be which.
But if you use the OLD Player-Rating lookup page – which I find vastly superior, anyway – and look him up just using his last name, Prem, then the situation is much less hopeless. Those where Prem is the entire name are bunched together somewhere in the middle of the list, and there are only a few dozen in the bunch. And states and first names are listed too, so it’s much less of a chore.
If the point you are trying to make is that the old Player-Rating lookup is better than the new one, then I agree wholeheartedly, and I have felt this way for a long time.
Bill Smythe
The last name field is apparently ‘S PREM’. I don’t know if that is a mistake, what it was intended to be or if there’s some language conversion issue going on here.
Using ‘PRANAV’ in the first name field and ‘PREM’ in the last name field on the new lookup finds 3 member records, which hardly seems like a problem to sort through.
With over a million records in the database, searching just by a few characters in the last name field is often challenging. JONES and SMITH both produce lots of hits.
I passed this ID along to the membership @ uschess dot org group address, hopefully they’ll be able to sort it out.
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