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 official 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. | |
NB Aug/2009 and subsequent grades are "new," specially adjusted grades with raised values.
ECF Longplay Grades
Member Aug/09 Aug/08 Jul/07 Aug/06 Aug/05 Jul/04
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Keith ESCOTT 186 168 181 163 171 168
Tristan COX 183 181 186 169 169 151
Colin ECKLOFF 169 152 148 139 110 100
Henrik STEPANYAN 169 145 134 115 * *
Joseph STEWART 168 149 151 154 144 124
Mark ADDIS * 167 168 162 150 153
David GARDINER 164 137 134 144 120 99
Neil OWEN 157 *
Marek SOSZYNSKI 156 126 127 130 129 140
Tony BROWN * * * * * 155
Astghik STEPANYAN 152 105 99 * * *
Sola FOLAYAN 151 139 149 155 163 158
Andrew TUNKS 151 119 110 102 99 91
Roy LAWRENCE 151 116 127 114 119 114
Glenn WINDOWS 150 120 126 130 129 126
Shailesh JOBANPUTRA 149 110 103 * * *
John BROADMORE * * 144 * * *
Harinder DHESI 143 100 94 57
Iqbal DHESI 141 131 139 128 125 115
Larry HAYDEN 138 125 115 129 129 132
Russell JONES * * * 138 133 136
Brian BRISCOE * * * * * 137
Peter THOMPSON 132 90 96 95 100 103
Arthur KENT 130 119 131 126 117 113
Stephen GARDINER 130 113 110 100 97 103
Chris EAST 129 116 108 111 109 107
Adrian HUSSAIN 128 109 114 109 102 81
Clive DENT * * * * 125 133
Kamiran SALIH * * * * * 125
Joe HIDER * 123 126 124 113 *
Derek GREEN 122 105 114 116 100 *
Thomas BURGESS * 119 124 117 114 124
Bob GREATREX * 114 *
George WINTER * * * * 113 107
Arron DHESI 110 71 *
Ian MCLAUGHLIN 98 69 70 70 85 86
Collin DANDY * * 96 97 99 92
Neil SHARPLES * * * * 95 99
Eddie BROWN 93 66 *
Barry FRENCH 88 *
John WASSELL * * * 84 * 89
Shaun UNDERWOOD * * * * 80 *
Mike BROWN 77 *
Grant CARPENTER 64 *
David TUNKS * 64 * 73 78 *
Russell TRICKER * * * 60 59 44
Kelvin GARDINER * * * * 50 52
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ECF Rapidplay Grades
Member Aug/09 Jan/09 Aug/08 Jan/08 Jul/07 Jan/07 Aug/06
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Tristan COX 188 167 156 159 149 149 152
Henrik STEPANYAN 185 160 143 143 144 142 *
Joseph STEWART 182 * 148 148 * 142 140
Marek SOSZYNSKI 163 137 137 137 132 132 133
Colin ECKLOFF 162 * 133 133 134 132
Larry HAYDEN 154 135 120 * 115 115 *
Astghik STEPANYAN 152 118 83 83 78 77 *
Tony BROWN 150 129 * 137 137 * 133
Sola FOLAYAN * * 150 150 * 151 154
Iqbal DHESI 147 113 111 103 114 115 114
Adrian HUSSAIN 130 93 88 88 83 82 81
Roy LAWRENCE * 126 126 * * 113 113
Thomas BURGESS * * 118 118
Peter THOMPSON 103 64 * * 86 * *
Joe HIDER * * * * 102 102
Collin DANDY * * 101 101 96 95 93
David GARDINER * * * * 98 98 *
Harinder DHESI * 92 92 81 75 61 53
Arron DHESI 77 38 32 * 27 28 21
Grant CARPENTER * 14 14 *
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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.
