More than a year ago we prepared the spreadsheet file with compilation of all available, historical Elo ratings. Today we have something much better - the very special tool for fast and easy browsing of all historical lists and legible, comfortable player cards documenting all past ratings, placings, spellings and other data.

FIDE ratings have been for many years computed and set together manually, which is why they are plenty of bugs, calculating mistakes, dupe entries, nonexistant players, terrible spellings etc. What we provide are the only available lists at the moment, so there is nothing like flawless or ratified lists. We have to live with that. To discover who and why hides behind mailformed names might be tasty challenge as well! The lists are obviously not complete, many players drop out from the list only to appear the following year, or, say, after 15 years. Another example: the 1974 list has no women at all. 1998-1999 lists are particularly thinned out (ca. 25% players are not in there, and FIDE have no idea what happened to them!). FIDE ID's were only introduced in 1998, so for many years there was no anchor to avoid spelling mistakes. (...)


>> Click here to use the tool <<