This page completes the topic on Chess Elo Rating, and it contains the valuable FIDE links which must be useful for you to visit and learn more. There are 3 links on the page:
Link 1. FIDE Handbook
Link 2. FIDE Players' Rating List
Link 3. FIDE Players' Database
Link 1. FIDE Handbook
This page is the Table of Context of Actual Handbook. Please find B. Permanent Commissions (in yellow color), and then just below the following 2 links (in light blue colors): B01. International Title Regulations (Qualification Commission) and B02. FIDE Rating Regulations (Qualification Commission).
• To learn more on the FIDE titles and to find the Table of Performance Change and the lookup Tables for GM, IM, WGM, WIM Norms, click link 01. International Title Regulations (Qualification Commission) and then on the next page the link 1.0. Requirements for the titles designated in 0.31.
• To learn more on the FIDE Elo calculation and to find the Table of Winning Probability, click link 02. FIDE Rating Regulations (Qualification Commission) and then on the next page the link 8.0. The working of the FIDE Rating System.
www.fide.com/fide/handbook
Link 2. FIDE Players' Rating List
Download FIDE Players' Rating List. Find chess players' names, titles, FIDE ratings. Download is 1.6 to 3.5 MB. Before 1 July 2009, the New Rating List was available 4 times a year. From 1 July 2009, the New Rating List is available 6 times a year: on 1 January, 1 March, 1 May, 1 July, 1 September, and 1 November. The lattest New FIDE Rating List for September 2010 has been published. The New FIDE Rating List for September 2010 is 2.35 MB to download - as zipped text file.
ratings.fide.com/download.phtml
Link 3. FIDE Players' Database
You can find here the Elo results for each FIDE player. Recalculated by FIDE for each tournament. Please read explanation before you connect.
ratings.fide.com
