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

Matt Walker

Portishead · 1442 standard · 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

RATING JOURNEY

Your year in rating

STARTED 1395
NOW 1442
CHANGE +47
PEAK 1501
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1501 · low 1376

SEASON SCOREBOARD

How the season went

33.3% 7 / 21
7WON
0DREW
14LOST

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

WHERE YOU STAND

Against the country

36.9%

Your 1442 puts you above 8,736 of the 23,675 rated players in England.

Lowest ratedHighest rated
THE ROAD AHEAD

Your next rung

58 rating points to Strong club player

  1. 1000 Club player
  2. 1250 Club standard
  3. 1500 Strong club player +58
  4. 1750 County standard
  5. 2000 Candidate Master
  6. 2200 FIDE Master
  7. 2400 International Master
  8. 2500 Grandmaster
GIANT KILLING

Your biggest scalp

Ilamaaran Sivakumar

THEIR RATING 1793
YOURS 1441
GAP +352

Division 5

TOUGHEST OPPONENT

The hardest game

Jan Rahlf

Rated 1804 and they won.

THEIR RATING 1804
YOURS 1484
RESULT LOSS

Division 6

WHITE & BLACK

Does colour suit you?

WHITE 33.3% 2W · 0D · 4L
6 games
BLACK 33.3% 5W · 0D · 10L
15 games
FIGHTER OR DIPLOMAT

Fighter

You draw a good deal less than the league does.

YOU
0%
LEAGUE
23.7%

0 draws in 21 league games

GM COMPARISON

Drawish company

Your 0% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

  1. Matt Walker
    0%
  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

3 games from the top board

A chain of 3 league games links you to Zack Norris (2412), the strongest player in the league.

  1. Matt Walker YOU
  2. Chris J Edwards
  3. Spencer Lawrence
  4. Zack Norris TOP BOARD

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

YOUR PEOPLE

Who you played

20 different opponents · 1 met more than once

  • Alastair JD Marston 1W · 0D · 1L ×2
  • Ben Mumford 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Charlie Papworth 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Chris J Edwards 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Dave Stanton 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Hugh Chalmers 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Hugo Delestre 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Ilamaaran Sivakumar 1W · 0D · 0L
  • James Picton 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Jan Rahlf 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Jeremy Gardner 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Lester M Moon 1W · 0D · 0L

and 8 more