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Hector Hu1,514+99·
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Chris J Edwards1,800+97·
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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·
← All players YOUR CHESS YEAR

Nicholas Woods

Downend & Fishponds · 1235 standard · 1339 rapid · 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

RATING JOURNEY

Your year in rating

STARTED 1297
NOW 1235
CHANGE -62
PEAK 1297
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1297 · low 1235

RAPID RATING JOURNEY

Your year at rapid

STARTED 1339
NOW 1339
CHANGE 0
PEAK 1339
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1339 · low 1339

SEASON SCOREBOARD

How the season went

12.5% 2 / 16
1WON
2DREW
13LOST

16 league games · Division 3, Division 4, Division 5

WHERE YOU STAND

Against the country

16.8%

Your 1235 puts you above 3,977 of the 23,675 rated players in England.

Lowest ratedHighest rated
THE ROAD AHEAD

Your next rung

15 rating points to Club standard

  1. 1000 Club player
  2. 1250 Club standard +15
  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

No win over a higher-rated opponent this season.

TOUGHEST OPPONENT

The hardest game

Will Driscoll

Rated 1829 and they won.

THEIR RATING 1829
YOURS 1245
RESULT LOSS

Division 5

WHITE & BLACK

Does colour suit you?

WHITE 10% 0W · 1D · 4L
5 games
BLACK 13.6% 1W · 1D · 9L
11 games
FIGHTER OR DIPLOMAT

Middle of the road

You draw at about the rate the league does.

YOU
12.5%
LEAGUE
23.7%

2 draws in 16 league games

GM COMPARISON

Drawish company

Your 12.5% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

  1. Nicholas Woods
    12.5%
  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. Nicholas Woods YOU
  2. Tarun Pamunuwa
  3. Alan Papier
  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

15 different opponents · 1 met more than once

  • Michael Jennings 0W · 1D · 1L ×2
  • Alessandro Coppola 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Chris Connell 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Jason Blaxill 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Jim Rowlands 0W · 0D · 1L
  • John G Paton 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Matt Walker 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Olha Kasperovych 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Oliver Mortimer 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Peter Ackland 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Phevos Stalidis 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Phil Brand 0W · 0D · 1L

and 3 more