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SCO · 40 yrs · K=20 · Peak 2096 (By Oct 2024)

Best performance: 2113 at European Rapid Chess Championship 2025(Best of 2025)

World #=9569 live, down 159#9,410 publishedScotland #16Europe #=5957among active players

Rapid rating

2096

FIDE’s November 2026 list. No rated games since, so the live rating is the same.

On FIDE’s list since Oct 2024

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Rapid

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Rapid rating 2080 to 2096 over the last 12 months; peak 2096 by October 2024.

Official rating by month

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

ListClassicalRapidBlitz
Nov 20262127, +10, 1 game2096, 0, 0 games2166, 0, 0 games
Oct 20262117, 0, 0 games2096, 0, 0 games2166, 0, 0 games
Sep 20262117, 0, 0 games2096, 0, 0 games2166, 0, 0 games
Aug 20262117, 0, 0 games2096, 0, 0 games2166, 0, 0 games
Jul 20262117, 0, 0 games2096, +5, 9 games2166, 0, 0 games
Jun 20262117, 0, 0 games2091, 0, 0 games2166, 0, 0 games
May 20262117, 0, 0 games2091, 0, 0 games2166, +65, 12 games
Apr 20262117, -3, 3 games2091, 0, 0 games2101, 0, 0 games
Mar 20262120, +8, 1 game2091, 0, 0 games2101, 0, 0 games
Feb 20262112, +9, 1 game2091, 0, 0 games2101, 0, 0 games
Jan 20262103, 0, 0 games2091, +11, 11 games2101, -16, 13 games
Dec 20252103, 0, 0 games2080, 0, 0 games2117, 0, 0 games

Form · Rapid

oldest → latest

Unbeaten in the last 4 games (3 wins, 1 draw), since Jun 21. That is the longest unbeaten run of 2026.

From 49 rapid games on record, the latest on Jun 21.

Rapid games since the November list

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

Last playedScore
25. Offenes Schnellturnier der Schachfreunde Berlin 1903Jun 21TPR 21016½/9

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

Best wins · Rapid

From 49 rated rapid games against rated opponents, 2024–2026

#OpponentRating
1, Jordi Olcina Monells, Dec 2024 · European Rapid Chess Championship 2024, 1990
2, Nils Werthmann, Jun 2026 · 25. Offenes Schnellturnier der Schachfreunde Berlin 1903, 1980
3, Silvio Brandt, Jun 2025 · 24. Offenes Schnellturnier der Schachfreunde Berlin 1903, 1968

Event timeline · Rapid

5 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
202696½19352101
2025201120502086
2024201219822054

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

Rated near Daniel Mcgowan · Rapid

World

  1. #=9569CM Enrique Nava Baro2096.0
  2. #=9569Aaron Rodriguez Adell2096.0
  3. #=9569Daniel Mcgowan2096.0
  4. #=9569Andree Schlosser2096.0
  5. #=9569Traian Demais2096.0

Scotland

  1. #14Daniel Maxwell2101.0
  2. #15Declan Shafi2099.0
  3. #16Daniel Mcgowan2096.0
  4. #17Julius Schwartz2091.0
  5. #18Alan Minnican2073.0

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