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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·
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Hector Hu1,514+99·
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← All players YOUR CHESS YEAR

Michael Stephens

North Bristol · 1680 standard · 1623 rapid · 2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01

RATING JOURNEY

Your year in rating

STARTED 1556
NOW 1680
CHANGE +124
PEAK 1680
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1680 · low 1556

RAPID RATING JOURNEY

Your year at rapid

STARTED 1540
NOW 1623
CHANGE +83
PEAK 1659
AugSepOctNovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJul

2025-08-01 to 2026-07-01 · high 1659 · low 1540

SEASON SCOREBOARD

How the season went

75% 4.5 / 6
4WON
1DREW
1LOST

6 league games · Division 4

WHERE YOU STAND

Against the country

67.7%

Your 1680 puts you above 16,028 of the 23,675 rated players in England.

Lowest ratedHighest rated
THE ROAD AHEAD

Your next rung

70 rating points to County standard

  1. 1000 Club player
  2. 1250 Club standard
  3. 1500 Strong club player
  4. 1750 County standard +70
  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

Christopher D Johnson

Rated 1670 and they won.

THEIR RATING 1670
YOURS 1647
RESULT LOSS

Division 4

WHITE & BLACK

Does colour suit you?

WHITE 25% 0W · 1D · 1L
2 games
BLACK 100% 4W · 0D · 0L
4 games
FIGHTER OR DIPLOMAT

Middle of the road

You draw at about the rate the league does.

YOU
16.7%
LEAGUE
23.7%

1 draw in 6 league games

GM COMPARISON

Drawish company

Your 16.7% is closest to Bobby Fischer on 29%.

  1. Michael Stephens
    16.7%
  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.

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. Michael Stephens YOU
  2. Richard Barnes
  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

6 different opponents

  • Antony J Sage 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Christopher D Johnson 0W · 0D · 1L
  • Piotr Kwiatowski 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Richard Barnes 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Ryan Lailvaux 1W · 0D · 0L
  • Shaun Walsh 0W · 1D · 0L