Sunday 20 July 2008

New 2008 Grades Published

The ECF have today published the new 2008 grades. Click here to see what your new (or first) grade is.

The new list needs a little explanation. Firstly there are [as usual] 2 cateories of grade, standardplay and rapidplay (shown as R_Grade). But each player now has 2 grades in each category!

Why? Well, there has been deflation in the grading system for a number of years and the ECF have sought to fix that this year. The 2008 Grade coloumn shows your new grade calculated in the normal way - this is your official grade and will be used for County matches, congresses etc. The New Style grade is the deflation fixing grade. It will become the official grade next year 2009 and in advance of that the Leicestershire League has decided to use this grade for league games in 2008-9.

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