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ENG · 24 yrs · K=20 · Peak 2394 (Nov 2026)

Best performance: 2530 at The New year Blitz Championship 2025(Best of 2025)

World #980 live, up 129#1,109 publishedEngland #15

NOV26 Rating

2394

Live Rating

2407.2

Change

+13.2

Games Played

15

How live ratings are calculated

Rating History · Blitz

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Official blitz rating by month
ListRatingChange
Nov 20262394+3
Oct 20262391+23
Sep 202623680
Aug 202623680
Jul 202623680
Jun 202623680
May 202623680
Apr 202623680
Mar 202623680
Feb 202623680
Jan 202623680
Dec 202523680
Working toward the Grandmaster title1 tracked norm · 9/27 gamesrating 2480 of 2500, live 2442composition opendetails ↓

Form · Blitz

oldest → latest

Longest unbeaten run in 2026: 15 games, Sep 6 – Sep 26.

From 369 blitz games on record, the latest on Nov 1.

Blitz games since the November list

TournamentScoreChange
2026 English Blitz ChampionshipNov 1TPR 240110/15+13.2

Title Progress

GM title progress

Working toward the Grandmaster title

Tracked norms: 1 · 9 of 27 games credit

Rating: peak 2480, needs 2500

Composition: next norm must come from an event played at one round a day for at least 3 days

Fagernes International Autumn 2024 GMOct 20247/9Rp 2635

Based on events we cover plus the FIDE norm registers of all federations. Norms filed elsewhere may not show up here yet.

Best wins · Blitz

From 341 rated blitz games against rated opponents, 2015–2026

#OpponentRating
1, GM Nikita Vitiugov, Jun 2025 · 2025 FIDE World Blitz Team Championship Pool B, 2612
2, GM Ameet K Ghasi, Nov 2019 · UK Blitz Final Solihull Mens Section, 2582
3, GM Daniel W Gormally, Dec 2022 · 2022 UK Open Blitz - Final, 2553

Openings · Blitz

From the moves of 86 of 369 blitz games on record.

As WhiteOpens 1.e4 in 42 of 43 games.

As BlackMeets 1.e4 with 1...c5 or 1...e6, and 1.d4 with 1...Nf6.

All openings (6 as White, 7 as Black)
Openings in White gamesGamesScore
Sicilian Defense1464%
Caro-Kann Defense721%
Four Knights Game560%
Ruy Lopez570%
French Defense3100%

6 more games in openings played fewer than 3 times.

Event timeline · Blitz

5 of 31 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: 2338 over 56 rated games

MonthGamesScoreAvg oppTPR
Nov151022762401
Oct212445—
Sep3025½20262322
Jul9622012326

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

Recent opponents · Blitz

GM Gawain C B Maroroa JonesGM Daniel W GormallyGM Ameet K GhasiIM Brandon G I ClarkeIM Marcus R HarveyIM Aaravamudhan BalajiIM Supratit BanerjeeLivio Cancedda-DupuisFM Qixiang HanFM Theo KhouryCM Kushal JakhriaRichard ZhuSebastian Mokhber-GarciaCM Peter FinnAndrew Brocklehurst

Rated near Jonah B Willow · Blitz

World

  1. #=975Konstantin L. Kodinets2408.0
  2. #979GM Ilia Iljiushenok2407.7
  3. #980IM Jonah B Willow2407.2
  4. #=981IM Ranko Szuhanek2407.0
  5. #=981GM Huynh Minh Huy Nguyen2407.0

England

  1. #13GM Daniel Howard Fernandez2416.0
  2. #14IM Thomas E Rendle2415.0
  3. #15IM Jonah B Willow2407.2
  4. #16FM Stanley Badacsonyi2407.0
  5. #17IM Supratit Banerjee2406.2

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