This doesn't need to be so difficult.

[wzim]

Do we truely expect our TDs to be 100 percent right 100 percent of the time? If so then perhaps in order to become a TD one should have to pass the tests with a score of 100 percent.

[kevin_bachler]

@jwiewel

You also didn’t mention sending in rating reports and new memberships in a single envelope (eventually the reports were on diskette) and waiting one to three months for the tournament to finally be rated, with it showing up in supplements that wouldn’t be used until a couple of months after that. Playing in a December tournament and finding out in March how it affected your rating for April tournaments was considered by some to be lightning fast.

Part of the reason why so many scholastic groups started their own rating systems was that the scholastic championships would be coming up and players new to chess didn’t have ratings yet. In scholastic chess, that’s a problem!