How to look up your US Chess rating

Congratulations on joining US Chess! Once you or your child plays in a US Chess rated tournament, you will earn an official US chess rating.

I will explain how to look up your US Chess member ID number and your rating using 2022 US Women’s Chess Champion, Jennifer Yu as an example.

On uschess.org, hover over “Ratings” and then click on “Player/Ratings Look-up”. Then enter your name in the search field. For our example, I entered “Jennifer Yu” and received this result which includes the member ID numbers for each member whose name matched my search criteria:

If you have a common name, you could narrow the search by selecting your state first or by including your middle name (if you provided that in your US Chess profile).

Then click on your line in the results list to display your USCF summary page. Clicking on the Jennifer Yu from Virginia will display this page:

The summary page shows a player’s current monthly supplement ratings for each of the six types of US Chess ratings (Regular, Quick, Blitz, Online Regular, Online Quick, and Online Blitz). These are the same ratings as are shown on the search result above.

These official supplement ratings are only updated once a month on the 3rd Wednesday of each month and become official on the 1st day of the next month.

To see your most recent rating, click on the “Tnmt. Hst” or Tournament History tab. This will display all the tournaments you have played in with the most recent tournament at the top. For each event, it will show your rating before and after the event, so your current rating is the one after your most recent event.

If one of your recent event has a double asterisk (**) beside it, that means that it has not yet been rerated into chronological order, so your rating from this event is subject to change.

If you click on one of the events in your tournament history, you can see the rating report for that event. Please see my earlier article, “Reading a US Chess Rating Report,” to learn how to interpret these reports.

For more information on this, please see US Chess’ Frequently Asked Questions: Member Services Area.”

Congratulations on earning an official US Chess rating!

If you have any questions about looking up your rating, please ask by submitting a comment below.