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FIDE IDs - August 2013 - Douglas Bryson - 14-08-2013
FIDE sent this information to federations on August 12 2013 with regard to FIDE IDs - the equivalent of our domestic pnums.
"FIDE receives a big number of mainly open tournaments where organizers welcome participants from their country or foreigners who have never played in FIDE rated tournaments before; that is players without a FIDE ID number. National rating officers create ID numbers for their own Nationals but the foreigners are submitted without IDs.
QC believes that FIDE should not take responsibility to register new players as it is not possible to confirm the players' details provided by organisers. It is also not possible for FIDE to contact all Federations and request them to confirm details and create ID numbers.
QC has instructed the Elista Office to reject tournaments which are submitted without ID numbers.
We kindly request the national rating officers who cannot submit their tournaments for the reason mention above, to contact the Federations and request that they create ID numbers for the players who do not have one.
It should be noted that if a player is declared with a wrong Federation and wishes to change Federation, the Registration, Transfer & Rules of Eligibility for Player will be applied."
The key point here is that a national federation can only create IDs for their own nationals ie SCO.
Previously you could generate IDs and request the player was changed from SCO to their requested federation - now the intention is that will no longer be possible.
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For several years CS has suggested that anyone who does not possess a FIDE ID and is about to play in a FIDE rated tournament outside Scotland supply their year of birth to <!-- e --><a href="mailto:grading@chessscotland.com">grading@chessscotland.com</a><!-- e --> and a FIDE ID will be created. Now it looks possible that if you dont already have an ID your entry to an event abroad could be declined until such time as CS generate your FIDE ID.
You can check FIDE IDs of all SCO registered players - both rated and unrated at this link.
<!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://ratings.fide.com/advaction.phtml?idcode=&name=&title=&other_title=&country=SCO&sex=&srating=0&erating=3000&birthday=&radio=name&line=asc">http://ratings.fide.com/advaction.phtml ... e&line=asc</a><!-- m -->
Check if the name appears under any nationality code by consulting the main database here <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://ratings.fide.com/">http://ratings.fide.com/</a><!-- m -->
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There are now implications for the Scottish Championships and any other domestic event which is FIDE rated.
FIDE state that a rating officer should request foreign players get an ID but will all federations answer this request instantly - probably not. And if not it would mean transfer fees would be imposed.
Therefore any event which intends to be FIDE rated by CS should defer the acceptance of any entrant who does not currently have a FIDE ID. The player would be asked to get an ID from his national federation and only then when the player was visible in the online FIDE system could the entry be approved.