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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·
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Graham Strickland

Horfield & Redland · 1442 standard · 1367 rapid · 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

RATING JOURNEY

Your year in rating

STARTED 1516
NOW 1442
CHANGE -74
PEAK 1522
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1522 · low 1442

RAPID RATING JOURNEY

Your year at rapid

STARTED 1367
NOW 1367
CHANGE 0
PEAK 1367
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1367 · low 1367

SEASON SCOREBOARD

How the season went

28.3% 6.5 / 23
4WON
5DREW
14LOST

23 league games · Division 3, Division 4, Division 5, Division 7

WHERE YOU STAND

Against the country

36.9%

Your 1442 puts you above 8,736 of the 23,675 rated players in England.

Lowest ratedHighest rated
THE ROAD AHEAD

Your next rung

58 rating points to Strong club player

  1. 1000 Club player
  2. 1250 Club standard
  3. 1500 Strong club player +58
  4. 1750 County standard
  5. 2000 Candidate Master
  6. 2200 FIDE Master
  7. 2400 International Master
  8. 2500 Grandmaster
GIANT KILLING

Your biggest scalp

Liam Wheen

THEIR RATING 1653
YOURS 1514
GAP +139

Division 4

TOUGHEST OPPONENT

The hardest game

Timothy M Jones

Rated 1720 and they won.

THEIR RATING 1720
YOURS 1512
RESULT LOSS

Division 5

WHITE & BLACK

Does colour suit you?

WHITE 56.3% 3W · 3D · 2L
8 games
BLACK 13.3% 1W · 2D · 12L
15 games
FIGHTER OR DIPLOMAT

Middle of the road

You draw at about the rate the league does.

YOU
21.7%
LEAGUE
23.7%

5 draws in 23 league games

GM COMPARISON

Drawish company

Your 21.7% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

  1. Graham Strickland
    21.7%
  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

3 games from the top board

A chain of 3 league games links you to Zack Norris (2412), the strongest player in the league.

  1. Graham Strickland YOU
  2. Barry Raynes
  3. Reinhold H Heinlein
  4. Zack Norris TOP BOARD

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

YOUR PEOPLE

Who you played

21 different opponents · 2 met more than once

  • Charles Higenbottam 0W · 1D · 1L ×2
  • Sean Hubble 1W · 0D · 1L ×2
  • Barry Raynes 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Ben Mumford 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Cassian Powell 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Christopher D Johnson 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Dave Stanton 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Ed Swann 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Frank De Vocht 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Guy Roper 0W · 0D · 1L
  • James Cruickshank 0W · 0D · 1L
  • John L Paines 0W · 1D · 0L

and 9 more