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NOR · 21 yrs · K=10 · Peak 2600 (Jul 2025)

Best performance: 2745 at Internationales Pfingst-Open 2025 A im 3. Muenchner Schachfestival(Best of 2025)

World #277 live, up 15#292 publishedNorway #5Europe #158among active players

NOV26 Rating

2552

Live Rating

2555.1

Change

+3.1

Games Played

19

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Classical

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Classical rating 2591 to 2552 over the last 12 months; peak 2600 in July 2025.

Official rating by month

Each month: the rating, its change from the list before, and the rated games FIDE counted.

ListClassicalRapidBlitz
Nov 20262552, -15, 16 games2521, 0, 0 games2566, -13, 9 games
Oct 20262567, -10, 10 games2521, 0, 0 games2579, -2, 11 games
Sep 20262577, -10, 14 games2521, 0, 0 games2581, 0, 0 games
Aug 20262587, +6, 27 games2521, 0, 0 games2581, +21, 15 games
Jul 20262581, -3, 18 games2521, 0, 0 games2560, 0, 0 games
Jun 20262584, +8, 18 games2521, 0, 0 games2560, +5, 30 games
May 20262576, -10, 34 games2521, 0, 0 games2555, 0, 0 games
Apr 20262586, +5, 5 games2521, 0, 0 games2555, 0, 0 games
Mar 20262581, 0, 0 games2521, 0, 0 games2555, -6, 25 games
Feb 20262581, 0, 0 games2521, 0, 0 games2561, 0, 0 games
Jan 20262581, -11, 2 games2521, +39, 24 games2561, -49, 47 games
Dec 20252592, +1, 1 game2482, 0, 0 games2610, +6, 7 games

Form · Classical

oldest → latest

Unbeaten in the last 6 games (4 wins, 2 draws), since Nov 3. Longest unbeaten run in 2026: 24 games, Jul 7 – Aug 9.

From 1,219 classical games on record, the latest on Nov 8.

Classical games since the November list

Show gamesTournamentScoreChange
11th GM tournament "Hotel Stockholm North by First hotels young talents" - II (26-31 OF OCTOBER)Oct 26 – Oct 31TPR 25897/9+2.2
Norwegian Team League Eliteserien 2026/27Oct 30 – Mar 7, 2027TPR 31171/1+1.9
29. Offene Internationale Bayerische SchachmeisterschaftOct 31 – Nov 8TPR 25327/9-1.0

Best wins · Classical

From 1,215 rated classical games against rated opponents, 2016–2026

#OpponentRating
1, GM Nikita Vitiugov, Sep 2025 · BL 2025/26, 2666
2, GM Daniel Dardha, Mar 2025 · European Individual Chess Championship 2025, 2665
3, GM Kirill Alekseenko, Jun 2025 · Internationales Pfingst-Open 2025 A im 3. Muenchner Schachfestival, 2655

Openings · Classical

From the moves of 458 of 1,219 classical games on record.

As WhiteOpens 1.e4 in 224 of 236 games, 1.d4 in 5, 1.Nf3 in 4.

As BlackMeets 1.e4 with 1...c5 or 1...c6, and 1.d4 with 1...Nf6.

All openings (10 as White, 16 as Black)
Openings in White gamesGamesScore
Sicilian Defense9973%
Ruy Lopez5866%
French Defense2176%
Caro-Kann Defense1678%
Petrov's Defense967%

13 more games in openings played fewer than 3 times.

Event timeline · Classical

50 of 222 events

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 year

YearGamesScoreAvg oppTPR
202616211224012542
2025155115½23062499
202416111922892473
2023158108½23792520
2022150110½22932477
2021412622052300
20206443½21732306
201912179½20992216
20181055720502079
2017774618981970
2016218½16281556

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

Recent opponents · Classical

GM Gopal G.N.GM Marco BaldaufGM Oleg KorneevGM Normunds MiezisFM Joar OlundIM Kim Yew ChanIM Yevhenii YelisieievFM Timo KueppersFM Sargis A. ManukyanFM Bhuvan Krishna PrasanthFM Timur KocharinFM Hugo WernbergFM Stanislaw KorszanskiIM Dieter MorawietzFM Sergey EliseevIM Alexander Van BeekFM Gunter SandnerCM Tobias WennerFM Bernd Daverkausen

Rated near Elham Amar · Classical

World

  1. #=274GM Haowen Xue2556.0
  2. #276GM Mateusz Bartel2555.5
  3. #277GM Elham Amar2555.1
  4. #=278GM Andrew Tang2555.0
  5. #=278GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista2555.0

Norway

  1. #3GM Johan-Sebastian Christiansen2633.0
  2. #4GM Jon Ludvig Hammer2567.4
  3. #5GM Elham Amar2555.1
  4. #6GM Frode Olav Olsen Urkedal2547.8
  5. #7GM Simen Agdestein2516.0

Live rating: FIDE’s November list plus every rated game played since. Not affiliated with FIDE.