I had the chance to briefly see Patrick Byrom, the CAQ Ratings Officer, a few weeks ago. I asked him if he thought that the ACF should release everyone's RD's so that people can do their own rating calculations without waiting a quarter for the ACF to do it. Currently only an estimate of one's RD is released.

Patrick told me that he agreed with me that RD's should be common knowledge and released.

This just goes to show how out of step Bill Gletsos, the National Ratings Officer and ACF Deputy President, is with at least some of his state counterparts - and perhaps with a sizable majority of Australian chess players.

AO