Mark Thwaites

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1481 · low 1455

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1258 · low 1245

15 league games · Division 4, Division 5

43 rating points to Strong club player

1. 1000 Club player ✓
2. 1250 Club standard ✓
3. 1500 Strong club player +43
4. 1750 County standard
5. 2000 Candidate Master
6. 2200 FIDE Master
7. 2400 International Master
8. 2500 Grandmaster

Alastair Drummond

Division 5

Will Austin

Rated 1880 and they won.

Division 5

You draw a good deal less than the league does.

1 draw in 15 league games

Your 6.7% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

1. Mark Thwaites
   6.7%
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.

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

1. Mark Thwaites 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.

14 different opponents · 1 met more than once

• Ben Mumford 0W · 1D · 1L ×2
• Alastair Drummond 1W · 0D · 0L
• Aseem Kulkarni 0W · 0D · 1L
• Dan German 1W · 0D · 0L
• Dave Stanton 0W · 0D · 1L
• Gregory Sumner 0W · 0D · 1L
• Hugo Delestre 1W · 0D · 0L
• Ibrahim Damghani 1W · 0D · 0L
• Jim Rowlands 1W · 0D · 0L
• John L Paines 0W · 0D · 1L
• Joseph Newland 0W · 0D · 1L
• Oleksii Novakov 0W · 0D · 1L

and 2 more