5.1 The Current Ratings

The data are stored in the file rating.zip. You will need a `PKUNZIP'-compatible program to unpack. The archive contains two files: `byname.txt' and `byrating.txt'. These text files are compact and can easily be imported to any spreadsheet program. The field separator is `,' and the records end with a new-line. The records of both files contain seven fields:

1. International Ranking. If the player has no ranking, the fields is empty.

2. National Ranking. If the player has no ranking, the fields is empty.

3. Nationality. The two-character ISO-3166 country codes as of 1997-08-07 17:59:51 are used.

4. Games Factor.

5. Surname. ISO-8859-1 character encoding is used.

6. Prename. ISO-8859-1 character encoding is used.

7. Rating.