Is it the responsibility of the players to make sure results are reported correctly? If at a later point after a tournament has been submitted a player says the results are incorrect, but the msa results match up with results that were written down, what should happen?
Yes. However, since the players clearly can’t benefit from the incorrectly reported results for prize purposes at this point, I see nothing to be lost from correcting it after the tournament is submitted. I think that accuracy is the most important thing.
Alex Relyea
- Yes. 2) If it is certain that the reported result was wrong, the TD should ask the USCF to change it. Getting the ratings right is more important than punishing the player. Give him a tongue-lashing next tournament.
If the correct result is reported in a Swiss tournament during the tournament then you have to look at how many rounds are left and whether or not to change the result for both ratings and prize purposes or only for ratings. Even in a round robin it may be questionable to correct results for prize purposes, as some of the draw offer decisions made by other players may have been influenced by the incorrectly reported results.
An obvious example is an incorrect round one resulted reported correctly in the middle of the final round. That result should not be changed for prize purposes, but can be corrected for rating purposes. If the same result was reported correctly in the middle of round two then it should be changed for both rating and prize purposes (if you are running a two-round tournament then you deserve the headache that this causes 
).
From the standpoint of the running of the tournament, it is both players’ responsibility to make sure results are reported correctly for every game.
From the standpoint of reporting the results afterwards, it is the TD’s responsibility to report the results for all games correctly based on the information the TD has about the games. The USCF will usually only accept reports of corrections to the results of rated events from the TD. Thus, when a player contacts the USCF to say that his or her results are reported incorrectly on MSA, we tell the player to contact the TD for the event and have the TD submit a correction.
There are occasional exceptions, such as if the TD has passed away. I can also recall one game between top players (at least one was a GM) where the game was printed in Chess Life but MSA had a different player listed. For that one we accepted the report from the player because we could verify the correction by looking in Chess Life.