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The US Chess menu includes operations for uploading and downloading information for use in US Chess rated tournaments.
US Chess Directory
Specifies the directory where your US Chess database files are located. WinTD will look for the US Chess files in this directory whenever you do an operation which requires them.
Download US Chess Database...
This downloads a complete new copy of the US Chess "Golden Database". See US Chess database for a description of this operation.
This installs a manually downloaded (and unzipped) Tab-Separated Values text file with the US Chess database. This is made available in case the automatic download in the Download US Chess Database... operation is no longer functioning.
Update from Database
For the players in a Player or Master Player window, this checks the US Chess database and uses that information to update the players' ratings and expiration dates for any player with a US Chess ID.
For the players in a Player or Master Player window with US Chess ID's, this will access the US Chess web site and update the expiration date and membership status for any players for which those have changed. This does not update ratings—the official ratings for the month are on the database. See US Chess Web Access for more on how to use this. Note that the use of this is subject to a "throttle" (to prevent overuse) so you will be warned if you try to do this for too many players.
For the players in a Player or Master Player window, this will scan your copy of the US Chess database, looking for US Chess ID numbers for any players who do not have a valid US Chess ID. ID's will only be copied to the player record if just a single close match is found (that is, if the player can fairly safely be uniquely identified). For cases where multiple possible matches are found, WinTD will not make any attempt to assign an ID number. This operation can take two to three seconds per player—only do this on a large file if you do not need to do anything else with WinTD for a significant period of time. If you include State codes for the players (you can use Edit>Change Common Info... to do large-scale changes), WinTD can limit the search to matching state codes, which greatly reduces the time required.
Make Membership Current
For the players selected in a Player window, this sets the expiration date as being one year from the current month. For example, if you do this operation in December 2021, the expiration date will be set to December 2022. This can be useful for quickly updating players who join US Chess or renew their memberships at the tournament. Players without a US Chess ID number will be assigned a "dummy" ID number, which should be replaced with the actual ID number when available.
Produces a report of the tournament results for submission to the US Chess.
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