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

Oliver Branch

South Bristol · 1374 standard · 1226 rapid · 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

RATING JOURNEY

Your year in rating

STARTED 1350
NOW 1374
CHANGE +24
PEAK 1374
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1374 · low 1347

RAPID RATING JOURNEY

Your year at rapid

STARTED 1092
NOW 1226
CHANGE +134
PEAK 1226
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1226 · low 1092

SEASON SCOREBOARD

How the season went

33.3% 3 / 9
2WON
2DREW
5LOST

9 league games · Division 4, Division 7

WHERE YOU STAND

Against the country

29.2%

Your 1374 puts you above 6,913 of the 23,675 rated players in England.

Lowest ratedHighest rated
THE ROAD AHEAD

Your next rung

126 rating points to Strong club player

  1. 1000 Club player
  2. 1250 Club standard
  3. 1500 Strong club player +126
  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

Lloyd Beckford

Rated 1735 and they won.

THEIR RATING 1735
YOURS 1366
RESULT LOSS

Division 7

WHITE & BLACK

Does colour suit you?

WHITE 40% 1W · 2D · 2L
5 games
BLACK 25% 1W · 0D · 3L
4 games
FIGHTER OR DIPLOMAT

Middle of the road

You draw at about the rate the league does.

YOU
22.2%
LEAGUE
23.7%

2 draws in 9 league games

GM COMPARISON

Drawish company

Your 22.2% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

  1. Oliver Branch
    22.2%
  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. Oliver Branch YOU
  2. Adam Mussa
  3. Grant Daly
  4. Barry Raynes
  5. Reinhold H Heinlein
  6. Zack Norris TOP BOARD

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

YOUR PEOPLE

Who you played

9 different opponents

  • Adam Mussa 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Beth Gillman 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Guy Roper 0W · 1D · 0L
  • James Mendelsohn 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Lloyd Beckford 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Michael Jennings 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Minh Bui 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Parthib Mojumder 0W · 1D · 0L
  • Theo Pritchard 0W · 0D · 1L