A few statistics from the USCF database - Chess Forums

At the USCF website, in the Member's Section, the "Golden Database" is available for download. This database contains the member name, USCF ID, member expiration date, member state, and rating of all current (and non current) members.Not that anyone cares, but here are a few statistics from that database

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