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ID: 343436510

James Phillips

FIDE ratings

1,576Classical
1,562Rapid

Performance

50 games
36% Win
38% Draw
26% Loss

James Phillips's playing style

Strong overall score:55%18W 19D 13L over 50 games
Dominates 1.d4 as White:63%in 19 games
In great form:68%9W 9D 2L in last 20 games
Hard to beat — high draw rate:38%of games are draws

Openings as White

Among the openings shown, Queen's Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation has the largest White sample, with 4 games. Select a row to explore its moves and inspect example games below.

Queen's Pawn Game: Zukertort Variation
100%
4g
Indian Defense: Spielmann-Indian
100%
4g
Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation, Short Variation
100%
2g
Latvian Gambit Accepted
100%
2g
King's Indian Defense: Four Pawns Attack
100%
2g

Openings as Black

Among the openings shown, Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Greco Variation has the largest Black sample, with 4 games. These results describe the available sample, not a prediction of the player’s next choice.

Queen's Gambit Accepted: Central Variation, Greco Variation
100%
4g
Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation, Botvinnik-Carls Defense
100%
4g
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense, Fried Liver Attack
100%
2g
Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense
50%
50%
2g
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Slav Gambit
100%
1g

Repertoire

29 games as white in scope
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Move arrowsfrequency, not engine evaluation

Starting position

29 games in this line · White to move

Results for Phillips, James as white · Wins / Draws / Losses

W / D / L
28%
41%
31%
Move
19 · 66%
37%
53%
11%
5 · 17%
20%
80%
5 · 17%
40%
60%

Game History

(50 games)
DateSourceColorOpponentResultLink
Jul 30, 2026
OTB
Bhushan, Adhiraj(1600)
W—
Jul 29, 2026
OTB
Sarwar, Adam(1544)
W—
Jul 29, 2026
OTB
Moran, Thomas(1793)
L—
Jul 28, 2026
OTB
Coughlan, James(1711)
L—
Jul 28, 2026
OTB
Fletcher, Malcolm(1637)
D—
Jan 25, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Link, Kieran L
D—
Jan 25, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Singh,Jatinder(1542)
W—
Jan 25, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Link, Kieran L
D—
Jan 25, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Singh,Jatinder(1542)
W—
Jan 25, 2026
OTB - TWIC
Singh,Jatinder
W—

Research James Phillips’s games and opening repertoire

James Phillips is rated 1576 in standard, 1562 in rapid by FIDE. James Phillips plays for Scotland.

James Phillips has FIDE ID 343436510.

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