The chess club in my area runs quick chess tournaments every week. However, they are not USCF rated. If I were to register as a TD director, would I be able to submit the results of my games with other USCF members at these non-rated tournaments for rating?
I’m probably speaking out of turn ahead of more experienced directors, but I think the USCF actively discourages and may actually have rules (anyone know the chapter and verse?) against a hybrid tournament of USCF-sanctioned games and other games which are ignored because they include non-members. We don’t want to be exclusionary against other chess enthusiasts, but every participant of a tournament should be a member in order for that tournament to be officially sanctioned and therefore eligible for official USCF rating.
Why don’t you formalize your tournament structure a little more? You could have two simultaneous tournaments, one for USCF members who want their games rated, and one for non-members or those who don’t want them rated. Then just submit the former.
I’m assuming the tournament is structured at least slightly, i.e. that pairings are determined in some algorithmic way (e.g. Swiss or round robin) rather than just “play anybody you want, and report the result”.
Bill Smythe
Bill’s suggestion is the one that the rulebook endorses. Have all the games to be rated games in one section, all the non-rated games in another section.
Basically, all games in a section must be rated for any of them to be rated.
The reason for this is fairly simple, allowing TDs or players to decide which games to rate during an event or after the event is over would distort the resulting ratings.
I can’t cite chapter and verse, my copy of the rulebook is in Nebraska.
If the club has a large pool of USCF members, and non-USCF members to have two simultaneous tournaments. Just because you have USCF members, does not mean they want to risk their USCF rating over a small privite tournament. Only know the Marshall Chess Club able to have a in house USCF rated tournament every week. It might be best to have a chess club have a USCF quick at most twice a month, with one or a special month with two regular tournaments. Having more then that will burn out the players, and they will be seeing and playing with each other all the time.