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Had this “conversation” in the shoutbox with Malaysian and I am of the opinion that the National Rating is not that important. At least not the speed of updates anyway. I just don’t understand the commotion made about how “late” the updates are.
To be fair, most of the updates match the time FIDE rating list itself comes out. Sure it’s a little late but only by 2 weeks or so. Why the fuss on fast updates? Most other countries have their national rating updated only once or twice a year! In fact I’m quite surprised that my recent results in the Royal Selangor was submitted so quickly to FIDE by Tse Pin.
If you remember, I tried to create an online version of the rating list so that you can compare your present rating with your previous ones but I’ve since given up on that. It was too much trouble matching a person’s record from the past lists. The only common identifier I had was the player’s name. However there are several names spelled differently for the same person and there was no unique identifier like the FIDE reference number. If there was a standard way for tournament organisers to enter player’s name (eg: using player reference number instead of name) then probably rating automation can be possible. However, I don’t think that can happen anytime soon.
Ask the Dust trailer Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas buy Also, I’m fully behind IA Lim Tse Pin in maintaining this list. Believe me I do not envy the person maintaining it. It’s not easy dealing with the different tournament organisers and ensuring the names, results etc are in the proper format. The manual work in making the corrections is a big pain in the ***, IMHO. Also, when it’s late you “kena tembak” left and right 
It comes out when it comes out. Just my 2 cents…
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