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Remarks
from the Ratings Commissioner
The ratings before you are based on the rateable results that were reported in the first half of the year 2005. Altogether 17,568 games from 5,265 players in 1,196 tournaments and 87 country matches were evaluated. Amongst them are 2,215 games played on the ICCF-Webserver whose results could be transfered automatically into the rating calculation. This are only 12,6% of course, but the first step is done! And development is going on. If the ICCF Congress will agree from 2006 onwards step by step all rated tournaments shall be administrated on the webserver directly by the TDs. Then the time consuming manual input of the results is no longer necessary and a new ratinglist may be produced much quicker. The main list now contains 9,745 players, 6,609 of them with fixed ratings and 1,401 title holders. In the Ladies' list there are 241 players, 143 of them with fixed ratings. Compared to the last list, we have 310 new players. In the database there are now 33,446 players, 1,274 of them ladies. 16.509 players are considered as “active” what means that they are currently playing or at least have results from the past five years. The total number contains also 1,280 deceased players who remain in the database for consistency reasons but are not counted for the Country Statistics on page 79. New titles to be awarded this year are not yet shown, because the official award has to wait for the ICCF-Congress in November. Those titles will be shown on the next list in March 2006. As in previous years the list is available in downloadable Adobe format on the ICCF Internet site. The Eloquery program with all information about the ratings is also available for download. Finally, I must thank the
Tournament Offices and the delegates of the national federations for
their collaboration. Many helpers are now working on the results to
make my work easier. My heartfelt thanks for that especially go to
Marco Caressa, who has processed nearly half the results, so that my
computer had no problem with them. This tremendous work cannot be
regarded as a matter of course and has to be distributed among a larger
group of people. With the administration of postal and email tournaments
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