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Bill Smythe writes in the USCF Forum: by Smythe Dakota on Sun Sep 23,
2007 9:43 pm #70745
Jude Acers was given a 2399 ceiling by then-ED Edmund Edmondson. I
remember, because I worked at the USCF office in Newburgh in the
summer of 1972, helping to catch up on ratings. I saw the notation on
Acers' rating card. Bill Smythe. [[User:Sam Sloan|Sam Sloan]] 09:39,
24 September 2007 (UTC)
:That's first-person anecdotal, and doesn't met the citation
guidelines. Note that I think it's probably true, but it's not
provably true from a reliable secondary source. [[User:Eddore|Eddore]]
22:18, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
::This is a problem in general with Wikipedia. Bill Smythe was
employed as a rating statistician with the [[USCF]] and he would know
the ultimate truth of the matter. Moreover, it was well known
throughout the USCF that there was a "Jude Acers Rule" which provided
that your rating could not go over 2399 by playing matches. Take a
look at the tournament where the rating of Acers finally gained one
point to reach 2400 ref http://main.uschess.org/assets/msa_j...258240-1047367
/ref. Now, take a look at his opponents. All of them played only in
Jude Acers tournaments. Now look at their USCF membership dates which
is usually the same date as the tournament. This shows that Jude Acers
signed them up for a "tournament membership" which existed at that
time and was recently reinstated in one of the foolish moves by Billy
G., where you could buy a tournament membership for as little as one
dollar per game.
::The main point here is that this "Jude Acers Rule" was very well
known to tournament chess players but it was, of course, never
published officially in Chess Life, so it will never meet the
standards of Wikipedia. ~~~~