Beat: the Russian Chess Federation has rolled out a poorly designed national rating system.
An untitled player who enters their first RCF rated tourney gets an initial RCF rating equal to their FIDE rating if the former exists.
However, if they haven't got any FIDE rating or national title prior, their RCF rating is set to 1000
As a result, they'll get a much lower RCF rating than the FIDE one at the same first tourney, unless they travel abroad (e.g. to Belarus) to play their first 5 FIDE rated games and initialise the FIDE rating prior to the RCF one.
All the other formulas of RCF rating adjustment mirror the FIDE ones.
This is going to result in a huge deflation of RCF ratings (as properly rated players will be losing points to strong opponents who're underrated because of being assigned an initial rating of 1000) and them being meaningless numbers as opposed to the FIDE ones.
National titles will be awarded on the basis on the national rating starting from year 2018, however, they don't give any social benefits since the dissolution of the USSR (except for very strong sportsmen like European Championship medalists), so the beat is tiny
Last edited by coon74; 01-11-2017 at 01:50 PM.