The USCF Website: Tournament History
I’ve just spent about an hour going back through all of my old tournament crosstables, remembering the chess tournaments I played in years ago. That was back when I was 16 years old and I was obsessed with chess. I would spend the week waiting for Friday because Friday night was chess club. At school I would bring chess books and read them during class. Sometimes I would bring my magnetic set and go over games. I was able to hide all of it well - not only so the teachers wouldn’t know what I was doing, but so the other kids wouldn’t see it and harass me.
This is the first I’ve noticed that the USCF has updated their ratings data on the website. Now you can search for a player and view all of their tournament history. It’s great because you can see the actual crosstables of the tournaments - and each player is clickable, so you can see what they’ve been up to. For example, here is Hikaru Nakamura’s tournament history, which shows all of the crosstables from all of the tournaments he has played in since 1995, back when he was rated 684! He’s now rated 2736 - the second highest rating in the USA. Here’s a link to the crosstable of the first rated tournament he played in.
