On the 1st September, OTB Blitz ratings will go live on the ECF rating website.
Blitz chess for ECF purposes are games where each player has between 3 and 10 minutes for the whole game. Increments counting on the usual 60 move assumption.
The ECF is grateful to those organisations who have submitted results since 1st November 2021. These results have been included the inaugural ratings that have been backdated to the relevant month.
For the technically minded, all players’ ratings have started using the new player p-rating method, with one modification. Where a player has an OTB rapid chess rating, that rating is used for the dummy rating. Such rating must be category A-K. If there is no qualifying rapid chess rating, then we look for an equivalent standard play rating. If neither are available, then the usual rapid chess dummy is used. When there is a reasonable number of listed players this formula will revert to the full rapid chess approach. That date is tentatively the end of the year following the UK Blitz event.
— Brian Valentine, Manager ECF rating