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BOT · 33 yrs · K=20 · Peak 1741 (Mar 2024)

Best performance: 1737 at 2025 Metropolitan National Chess Championships 1st Qualifiers- Open section(Best of 2025)

World #=112531 live, down 1224#111,307 publishedBotswana #102

NOV26 Rating

1700

Live Rating

1700.0

Change

0.0

Games Played

0

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Classical

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Official classical rating by month
ListRatingChange
Nov 202617000
Oct 202617000
Sep 202617000
Aug 20261700-40
Jul 202617400
Jun 202617400
May 202617400
Apr 202617400
Mar 202617400
Feb 202617400
Jan 202617400
Dec 202517400

Form · Classical

oldest → latest

Longest unbeaten run in 2026: 2 games, Jul 19.

From 56 classical games on record, the latest on Jul 21.

Classical games since the November list

No rated standard games this rating periodsince the NOV26 list (Nov 1, 2026)

Last playedScore
2026 BetXplosion National Chess Championship-Open SectionJul 17 – Jul 21TPR 15854½/9

The live rating moves only when new rated games are played. Until then it matches the published rating.

Best wins · Classical

From 32 rated classical games against rated opponents, 2018–2026

#OpponentRating
1, Majuta Tsaone, 2018 DEBSWANA BOTSWANA INTERNATIONAL OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP-OPEN, Oct 2018, 1818
2, Oteng Kalake, 2025 Metropolitan National Chess Championships 1st Qualifiers- Open section, Mar 2025, 1797
3, CM Elias Thabo, 2023 Metropolitan National Chess Championships 1st Qualifiers- Open section, Mar 2023, 1775

Event timeline · Classical

1 of 9 events · All years

Events before the current rating period show the performance, not a rating change.

Live events show the rating change; earlier events show the performance rating.

Performance rating by month

2026: 1585 over 5 rated games

MonthGamesScoreAvg oppTPR
Jul51½17341585

Games count in the month they were played. Each month and year is one performance rating over all of its rated games.

Rated near Ishmael Kobe · Classical

World

  1. #=112531Joris Stok1700.0
  2. #=112531Wiktor Szydlowski1700.0
  3. #=112531Ishmael Kobe1700.0
  4. #=112531Michal Kierzkowski1700.0
  5. #=112531Xuan Quynh Ngo1700.0

Botswana

  1. #100Tsheko Simon1703.0
  2. #101Bartlett Ezra1701.0
  3. #102Ishmael Kobe1700.0
  4. #103Mananga Moses1699.0
  5. #104Nophaus Sole1697.0

Live ratings projected from the NOV26 published list · Not affiliated with FIDE