WHAT'S ONRANKINGSCOMMUNITY YOUR CHESS YEAR
LIVEBRISTOL & DISTRICTS · RATING CHANGES · JULY 202620 PLAYERS
Harry LeRoy1,198+311·
Ibrahim Damghani1,623+300·
Carolus Tang1,799+250·
Noah Taylor1,743+204·
Aidan McCarron1,475+187·
Adam Mussa1,588+177·
Alexis Kristoff Malibiran1,902+173·
Michael Fielding1,774+169·
William Mullaney1,722+167·
Yuri Warman1,278+163·
Naveen Daniel George1,722+159·
Nicholas Cunliffe1,712+157·
Benjamin Zhang1,474+135·
Nathaniel Wu1,625+108·
David B McGeeney1,749+107·
Grant Daly1,632+102·
Chris Egitto1,459+101·
Hector Hu1,514+99·
Beth Gillman1,240+99·
Chris J Edwards1,800+97·
Harry LeRoy1,198+311·
Ibrahim Damghani1,623+300·
Carolus Tang1,799+250·
Noah Taylor1,743+204·
Aidan McCarron1,475+187·
Adam Mussa1,588+177·
Alexis Kristoff Malibiran1,902+173·
Michael Fielding1,774+169·
William Mullaney1,722+167·
Yuri Warman1,278+163·
Naveen Daniel George1,722+159·
Nicholas Cunliffe1,712+157·
Benjamin Zhang1,474+135·
Nathaniel Wu1,625+108·
David B McGeeney1,749+107·
Grant Daly1,632+102·
Chris Egitto1,459+101·
Hector Hu1,514+99·
Beth Gillman1,240+99·
Chris J Edwards1,800+97·
← All players YOUR CHESS YEAR

John L Paines

Downend & Fishponds · 1373 standard · 1490 rapid · 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

RATING JOURNEY

Your year in rating

STARTED 1411
NOW 1373
CHANGE -38
PEAK 1411
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1411 · low 1371

RAPID RATING JOURNEY

Your year at rapid

STARTED 1490
NOW 1490
CHANGE 0
PEAK 1490
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1490 · low 1490

SEASON SCOREBOARD

How the season went

16.7% 3 / 18
1WON
4DREW
13LOST

18 league games · Division 2, Division 3, Division 4, Division 5

WHERE YOU STAND

Against the country

29.1%

Your 1373 puts you above 6,889 of the 23,675 rated players in England.

Lowest ratedHighest rated
THE ROAD AHEAD

Your next rung

127 rating points to Strong club player

  1. 1000 Club player
  2. 1250 Club standard
  3. 1500 Strong club player +127
  4. 1750 County standard
  5. 2000 Candidate Master
  6. 2200 FIDE Master
  7. 2400 International Master
  8. 2500 Grandmaster
GIANT KILLING

Your biggest scalp

Mark Thwaites

THEIR RATING 1470
YOURS 1371
GAP +99

Division 4

TOUGHEST OPPONENT

The hardest game

Stephen J Meek

Rated 2073 and they won.

THEIR RATING 2073
YOURS 1398
RESULT LOSS

Division 4

WHITE & BLACK

Does colour suit you?

WHITE 6.3% 0W · 1D · 7L
8 games
BLACK 25% 1W · 3D · 6L
10 games
FIGHTER OR DIPLOMAT

Middle of the road

You draw at about the rate the league does.

YOU
22.2%
LEAGUE
23.7%

4 draws in 18 league games

GM COMPARISON

Drawish company

Your 22.2% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

  1. John L Paines
    22.2%
  2. Fischer
    29%
  3. Alekhine
    30%
  4. Capablanca
    39%
  5. Carlsen
    44%
  6. Tal
    46%
  7. Kasparov
    47%
  8. Karpov
    52%
  9. Petrosian
    55%
  10. Anand
    55%
  11. Kramnik
    57%

For fun, not for comparison. Draws at the top of the game come from two players finding nothing; at club level they usually come from something else entirely.

DEGREES OF SEPARATION

4 games from the top board

A chain of 4 league games links you to Zack Norris (2412), the strongest player in the league.

  1. John L Paines YOU
  2. Hayden Griffiths
  3. Mohit Mohan
  4. Spencer Lawrence
  5. Zack Norris TOP BOARD

Each link is a game actually played in the Bristol & District League this season.

YOUR PEOPLE

Who you played

17 different opponents · 1 met more than once

  • Cash Thom 0W · 0D · 2L ×2
  • Adam Mussa 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Aseem Kulkarni 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Ben Mumford 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Geoffrey D Dring 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Graham Strickland 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Hayden Griffiths 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Jack Giltrap 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Jason Pegg 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Joseph T Fearnhead 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Mark Thwaites 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Patrick Bourne 0W · 0D · 1L

and 5 more