10.5.2012
The Finnish version of the performance calculator can now also calculate
Finnish national ratings.
16.4.2012
A new page:
Performance calculator for all your performance calculating needs.
9.1.2012
Best Finnish results annually are now sorted according to "modified
performance" and the game count requirement has been lifted. See the bottom
of the page for further information.
17.8.2011
A new page,
Future national masters lists the strongest Finnish players who haven't
obtained the national master title yet.
3.8.2011
Since it seems I rarely remember to update this page, I figured I'd try out Twitter
for short notifications on things related to the chess pages. The tweets are mostly
about Finnish chess players and in Finnish. Feel free to
have a look, though.
13.1.2011
FIDE has again removed a bunch of federations from its rating list,
probably due to unpaid membership fees. I really don't regard that as a good
move, but then again, if the rating system is the only thing FIDE has to
offer, maybe they don't have a choice. Anyway, due to the removal, many
players were left without a FIDE rating in the
highest ICC ratings list. After today's update, the latest published
rating is shown.
30.9.2010
The
Chess Olympiad performance ratings
stopped working since chess-results.com started returning a
System.OutOfMemoryException error instead of results.
Made a workaround that seems to work.
22.9.2010
Once again, the
Chess Olympiad performance ratings.
21.9.2010
Finally finished updating the
Highest FIDE ratings
list. I've also rechecked all the names - they should be considerably more
accurate now. The language of the names is now given as well. Plenty of
second names and patronymics are probably still missing and I wouldn't be
surprised if there were mistakes in the romanization of e.g. Indian scripts.
Let me know if you know any better.
The list should remain up to date from now on, since the rating information
is automatically updated.
Furthermore, I changed the style somewhat and might consider going with those
fonts on the other pages as well. Feel free to voice your opinion.
27.6.2010
Updated the
Best Finnish players yearly lists.
25.6.2010
Fixed the handling of mixed time control tournaments in
Finnish selection list 2200 index. Now the calculations should be correct
for the players who have played the Påskturneringen in Norrköping.
24.6.2010
Since even the Finnish national championships aren't title tournaments anymore,
I decided to slightly alter the criterion for the
Best Finnish results annually list. Now any result of nine games or
more in a FIDE rated tournament will do. Non-contiguous team events still
aren't considered as tournaments, though. I'm not sure whether I should also
accept results with less than nine games when there's a w.o. in a nine round
tournament or when the result would still be eligible for a title norm (e.g.
European Club Cup). Feel free to share your thoughts.
Furthermore, calculated the
Best Finnish players in 2007-2009.
9.6.2010
Added 3-minute and Chess960 ratings to the
highest ICC ratings list. Shortened Standard and 15-minute lists from
30 to 20 players since they don't seem to attract top players that much.
7.6.2010
Added the new pools (3-minute, 45-minute and Chess960) to the
Best Finnish players in ICC list.
6.11.2009
Added 15-minute ratings to the
highest ICC ratings list.
14.10.2009
Added the
performance ratings of the XXV European Club Cup.
12.8.2009
New page:
Best Finnish players in FICS.
Some people have been wondering whether I've stopped updating the highest
FIDE ratings list. I've figured that since FIDE seems to consider the latest
list as a work in progress, keeping on releasing corrected versions until the
next list is published, there are two practical approaches: either
delay the updates until the next list has been published, thus always
featuring an outdated list, or automate the whole process.
The latter seems to be the way to go, but since I intend to do it properly,
it requires some work.
1.9.2007
ICC lists started working again, after being blocked by ICC for six
months. Don't know whether that's just temporary, though. Since the
player lists haven't been updated, the lists are currently far from
comprehensive. Finding new players has also become trickier because
nowadays guests can use very few commands in ICC (and I'm definitely
not going to purchase an account just for updating the lists).
The methods I used to find automatically new handles for the
highest ICC ratings cannot be used anymore, so I wrote a new
one. I don't think it's as good as the previous ones but I expect
it to perform fairly well. Still, information on handles missing from
the list is always welcome. Things seem gloomier for the
Best Finnish players in ICC list, so input from the readers is
even more valuable.
5.10.2006
Highest FIDE ratings of Finnish
players now contains 100 players instead of 50.
1.8.2005
New page:
Highest FIDE ratings.
20.7.2005
New page:
Finnish selection list 2200
index.
17.5.2005
Added the list of publications.
5.3.2005
Best Finnish players in ICC page:
Now the handles link to ICC's finger output.
23.2.2005
Major revision of the
Best Finnish players in ICC page:
21.2.2005
Finally updated the
Salo weekend tournament statistics
page. Still not available in English, though. Changed the header fonts
of all the chess pages in the process.
7.9.2004
A new page:
Best Finnish players 2003.
24.8.2004
Created this log.
Major revision of the
Highest ICC ratings page: