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Hector Hu1,514+99·
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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

Simba Foluke

Harambee · 1154 standard · 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

RATING JOURNEY

Your year in rating

STARTED 1168
NOW 1154
CHANGE -14
PEAK 1168
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1168 · low 1132

SEASON SCOREBOARD

How the season went

26.7% 4 / 15
3WON
2DREW
10LOST

15 league games · Division 6, Division 7

WHERE YOU STAND

Against the country

11.8%

Your 1154 puts you above 2,794 of the 23,675 rated players in England.

Lowest ratedHighest rated
THE ROAD AHEAD

Your next rung

96 rating points to Club standard

  1. 1000 Club player
  2. 1250 Club standard +96
  3. 1500 Strong club player
  4. 1750 County standard
  5. 2000 Candidate Master
  6. 2200 FIDE Master
  7. 2400 International Master
  8. 2500 Grandmaster
GIANT KILLING

Your biggest scalp

Alun Evans

THEIR RATING 1657
YOURS 1149
GAP +508

Division 7

TOUGHEST OPPONENT

The hardest game

David Yuan

Rated 1722 and they won.

THEIR RATING 1722
YOURS 1163
RESULT LOSS

Division 7

WHITE & BLACK

Does colour suit you?

WHITE 31.8% 3W · 1D · 7L
11 games
BLACK 12.5% 0W · 1D · 3L
4 games
FIGHTER OR DIPLOMAT

Middle of the road

You draw at about the rate the league does.

YOU
13.3%
LEAGUE
23.7%

2 draws in 15 league games

GM COMPARISON

Drawish company

Your 13.3% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

  1. Simba Foluke
    13.3%
  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

5 games from the top board

A chain of 5 league games links you to Zack Norris (2412), the strongest player in the league.

  1. Simba Foluke YOU
  2. Roger Coles
  3. Sean Hubble
  4. Alan Papier
  5. Spencer Lawrence
  6. Zack Norris TOP BOARD

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

YOUR PEOPLE

Who you played

14 different opponents · 1 met more than once

  • James Mendelsohn 0W · 1D · 1L ×2
  • Adrian Catchpole 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Alessandro Coppola 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Alexandra Bicknell 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Alun Evans 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Ben Knox 0W · 0D · 1L
  • David Yuan 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Doug May 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Hugh Chalmers 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Jack Morgan 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Jane Hewer 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Roger Coles 0W · 0D · 1L

and 2 more