Members’ ECF Grades | Comparing grades with ratings
| Here are our members’ English Chess Federation longplay (or standard play) and rapidplay grades, listed according to the highest, latest available grade. An asterisk (*) indicates that no grade was published for that player for that season or period; however, do note that the ECF does occasionally change grades retrospectively. The lists below include (some) former as well as current and prospective members. | |
ECF Longplay Grades
Member Jul/07 Aug/06 Aug/05 Jul/04 Jul/03 Aug/02
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Tristan COX 186 169 169 151 161 144
Keith ESCOTT 181 163 171 168 182 171
Mark ADDIS 168 162 150 153 155 *
Tony BROWN * * * 155 156 168
Joseph STEWART 151 154 144 124 123 112
Sola FOLAYAN 149 155 163 158 147 *
Edward NG * * * * * 148
John BROADMORE 144 * * * * *
Iqbal DHESI 139 128 125 115 109 111
Russell JONES * 138 133 136 144 146
Brian BRISCOE * * * 137 141 139
David GARDINER 134 144 120 99 91 88
Henrik STEPANYAN 134 115 * * * *
Arthur KENT 131 126 117 113 116 126
Marek SOSZYNSKI 127 130 129 140 149 137
Roy LAWRENCE 127 114 119 114 117 116
Glenn WINDOWS 126 130 129 126 121 121
Joe HIDER 126 124 113 * * *
Clive DENT * * 125 133 124 121
Kamiran SALIH * * * 125 * *
Thomas BURGESS 124 117 114 124 126 125
Larry HAYDEN 115 129 129 132 132 130
Derek GREEN 114 116 100 * * *
Adrian HUSSAIN 114 109 102 81 * *
George WINTER * * 113 107 101 103
Andrew TUNKS 110 102 99 91 * *
Stephen GARDINER 110 100 97 103 90 81
Chris EAST 108 111 109 107 119 114
Shailesh JOBANPUTRA 103 * * * * *
Astghik STEPANYAN 99 * * * * *
Collin DANDY 96 97 99 92 90 91
Peter THOMPSON 96 95 100 103 *
Neil SHARPLES * * 95 99 *
Harinder DHESI 94 57
Keith LAWSON * * * * 88
Riccardo PAZZAGLIA * * * * 87 85
John WASSELL * 84 * 89 95 *
Shaun UNDERWOOD * * 80 *
David TUNKS * 73 78 *
Ian MCLAUGHLIN 70 70 85 86 86 76
Michael EDWARDS * 65
Russell TRICKER * 60 59 44 47 50
Kelvin GARDINER * * 50 52 *
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ECF Rapidplay Grades
Member Jan/08 Jul/07 Jan/07 Aug/06 Aug/05 Jul/04 Jul/03 Aug/02
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Tristan COX 159 149 149 152 154 144 143 153
Sola FOLAYAN 150 * 151 154 * 153 153 *
Joseph STEWART 148 * 142 140 135 134 136
Henrik STEPANYAN 143 144 142 *
Marek SOSZYNSKI 137 132 132 133 127 * 117 129
Tony BROWN * 137 137 * 133 *
Thomas BURGESS 118
Larry HAYDEN * 115 115 *
Roy LAWRENCE * * 113 113
Iqbal DHESI 103 114 115 114 111 *
Joe HIDER * * 102 102
Collin DANDY 101 96 95 93 98 95 84 80
David GARDINER * 98 98 *
Adrian HUSSAIN 87 83 82 81 78 *
Peter THOMPSON * 86 * * * * *
Astghik STEPANYAN 83 78 77 *
Harinder DHESI 81 75 61 53
Keith LAWSON * * * * * 78 79
Arron DHESI * 27 28 21
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A few more members have been relatively inactive in the last few years, or are just starting out, and have yet to play enough recent games for an official grade.
An official ECF grade and an official FIDE Elo rating are worked out very differently; hence a direct, "accurate" conversion is not possible. However, a formula was published in the BCF Grading List 2002-2003, and that is what the calculations here are based on.
To see how a particular grade or rating (such as your own) compares according to various formulas, click the buttons below - if supported/enabled by your browser.
NB These conversions are for ECF purposes, and apply to official FIDE ratings only. A minimum FIDE rating of 2000 is assumed (a grade of 150 ECF). For further information visit the ECF website.
When JP Wilkinson carried out an empirical survey (admittedly a few years ago now) on players with both a BCF grade and an Elo rating, he came up with the conversion ratios below.
The final buttons convert USCF (United States Chess Federation) ratings to standard Elo ratings. Usually just a hundred (or more) points are deducted from the USCF figure, but that is not strictly accurate according to a formula posted by Jeroen van Dorp, which is the one used here.
