Incalculable thanks to OlimpBase for preserving the record (a job FIDE really should do, but unfortunately does not). Here are the historical ratings of Tony Miles, well known British GM who sometimes played for federations other than England: ;Miles, Anthony J.;Miles, Anthony J.;197207;;1955.04.25;;ENG;2285;;;;;ENG; ;Miles, Anthony J.;Miles, Anthony J.;197307;;1955.04.25;;ENG;2375;90;;;;ENG; ;Miles, Anthony J.;Miles, Anthony J.;197405;;1955.04.25;;ENG;2410;35;;;;ENG; ;Miles, Anthony…

TWIC (The Week in Chess), is a wonderful site which sets a high standard for collection and publishing chess tournaments in PGN form. It does a great job of normalizing the data – rationalizing the names, including FIDE id’s and countries for teams (in the Olympiad), etc.  As my recent explorations of the FIDE version…

From the 1877 Scientific American comes this portrait of Dr. C. C. Moore, noted problemist and publisher of The American Chess Journal (1879-1881 according to wiki):

Here is the output (sightly edited) from my pgn_compare program for TWIC vs FIDE of the Tromso Women’s Olympiad 2014: TWIC missing names: None. FIDE missing names (not found in TWIC):    Ramirez M. Eugenia              (3301680 vs Maria Eugenia Ramirez 3301133)    Sotomayor Villatoro, Silvi      (7301057 vs Silvia Sotomayor 7300611) TWIC missing games (not found…