Is it legal?

Hello everyone. I'm wondering is it legal to download rating list from FIDE which they are offering to download and use it on your web site?

If you mean one of these lists then it is legal.
http://ratings.fide.com/download.phtml

It would be polite to state where you got the list but I don't think that's a requirement. They're just listings of factual data similar to sports teams rankings or the stock market index. Just remember that those lists are going to change all the time so they may be obsolete tomorrow.

If you are just going to put a link to one of the lists on your web site then you should definitely tell folks where that link is going to take them.

Grabbed this from Wikipedia: "Copyright in a list may exist in the content of the list or in the way that the content was selected and arranged. Copyright does not protect facts, but it does protect opinion. If a source is based on "value judgments", it may be protected by copyright, even if it looks very similar to fact. And even if the source is fact, copyright may still protect its selection and arrangement if these are creative" (http://goo.gl/fzndVn). 

So I guess it depends on whether you view the FIDE ratings as factual or subjective. I think legally, you'd probably be fine under fair use -- problem is a lot of corporations don't care about fair use and send takedown notices on any content they feel they own.

TLDR: Sure, just be sure to include a link to the FIDE list page.

Thank you for your answers. My page is just finished. I included a link in the bottom of the page. http://www.chessrating.info/

Do you think that it is ok now when I added link to FIDE? And by the way what do you think of the page?

barely legal