20 June 2010: Have you a grading double?
Richard Haddrell, the Grading Administrator at the English Chess Federation has been doing a bit of tidying up of gradings. He asked for some assistance with this exercise:
I am doing a trawl for players with more than one entry in the ECF grading database. Not the published online list, but the larger central database. Some people have duplicate entries for years without ever knowing it, because one entry is unpublished. Here is a list of possible duplicates including unpublished players. Are you in it?
You may well be there with the same code more than once. That doesn’t matter. But if you appear with two or more different codes, let me know and I will merge your records into one. You could reply here, but it would suit me best if you email me directly. Don’t PM me, I wouldn’t even know how to pick up a PM.
Most of the “duplicates” in the list will be genuinely different people, and it’s perfectly obvious that some are. Don’t write to say a namesake is NOT you. But do write if you’re not sure, giving some indication of the events you’ve played in in the last three years or so.