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

Chris Connell

Yate & Sodbury · 1537 standard · 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

RATING JOURNEY

Your year in rating

STARTED 1475
NOW 1537
CHANGE +62
PEAK 1559
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1559 · low 1452

SEASON SCOREBOARD

How the season went

64.3% 18 / 28
17WON
2DREW
9LOST

28 league games · Division 3, Division 5, Division 6

WHERE YOU STAND

Against the country

49.4%

Your 1537 puts you above 11,695 of the 23,675 rated players in England.

Lowest ratedHighest rated
THE ROAD AHEAD

Your next rung

213 rating points to County standard

  1. 1000 Club player
  2. 1250 Club standard
  3. 1500 Strong club player
  4. 1750 County standard +213
  5. 2000 Candidate Master
  6. 2200 FIDE Master
  7. 2400 International Master
  8. 2500 Grandmaster
GIANT KILLING

Your biggest scalp

Lynsey N Savery

THEIR RATING 1730
YOURS 1500
GAP +230

Division 5

TOUGHEST OPPONENT

The hardest game

Leo Yung

Rated 1762 and they won.

THEIR RATING 1762
YOURS 1554
RESULT LOSS

Division 6

WHITE & BLACK

Does colour suit you?

WHITE 70.8% 8W · 1D · 3L
12 games
BLACK 59.4% 9W · 1D · 6L
16 games
FIGHTER OR DIPLOMAT

Fighter

You draw a good deal less than the league does.

YOU
7.1%
LEAGUE
23.7%

2 draws in 28 league games

GM COMPARISON

Drawish company

Your 7.1% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

  1. Chris Connell
    7.1%
  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. Chris Connell YOU
  2. Duncan M Macarthur
  3. Chris J Edwards
  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

27 different opponents · 1 met more than once

  • Leo Yung 0W · 0D · 2L ×2
  • Alastair Drummond 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Alex Jones 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Brandon Curtis 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Chris P Smith 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Danny Wilkins 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Duncan M Macarthur 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Gregory Sumner 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Hugo Surendranath 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Ibrahim Damghani 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Jack Lintern 0W · 0D · 1L
  • James Wotherspoon 1W · 0D · 0L

and 15 more