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

Phillip Lawson

Hanham Folk Centre · 1557 standard · 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

RATING JOURNEY

Your year in rating

STARTED 1533
NOW 1557
CHANGE +24
PEAK 1557
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1557 · low 1519

SEASON SCOREBOARD

How the season went

50% 8 / 16
6WON
4DREW
6LOST

16 league games · Division 4, Division 7

WHERE YOU STAND

Against the country

52.1%

Your 1557 puts you above 12,335 of the 23,675 rated players in England.

Lowest ratedHighest rated
THE ROAD AHEAD

Your next rung

193 rating points to County standard

  1. 1000 Club player
  2. 1250 Club standard
  3. 1500 Strong club player
  4. 1750 County standard +193
  5. 2000 Candidate Master
  6. 2200 FIDE Master
  7. 2400 International Master
  8. 2500 Grandmaster
GIANT KILLING

Your biggest scalp

Noah Taylor

THEIR RATING 1712
YOURS 1519
GAP +193

Division 4

TOUGHEST OPPONENT

The hardest game

Jack Wicken

Rated 1985 and you held them.

THEIR RATING 1985
YOURS 1534
RESULT DRAW

Division 7

WHITE & BLACK

Does colour suit you?

WHITE 35% 2W · 3D · 5L
10 games
BLACK 75% 4W · 1D · 1L
6 games
FIGHTER OR DIPLOMAT

Middle of the road

You draw at about the rate the league does.

YOU
25%
LEAGUE
23.7%

4 draws in 16 league games

GM COMPARISON

Drawish company

Your 25% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

  1. Phillip Lawson
    25%
  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. Phillip Lawson YOU
  2. Dan German
  3. Paul Spiller
  4. Reinhold H Heinlein
  5. Zack Norris TOP BOARD

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

YOUR PEOPLE

Who you played

15 different opponents · 1 met more than once

  • Richard Barnes 2W · 0D · 0L ×2
  • Anton Beketov 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Charles Higenbottam 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Christopher D Johnson 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Dan German 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Dmitriy Borodkin 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Jack Wicken 0W · 1D · 0L
  • James Cruickshank 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Jason Pegg 0W · 1D · 0L
  • John L Paines 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Joseph T Fearnhead 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Noah Taylor 1W · 0D · 0L

and 3 more