Top chess players in Wales

The 100 highest-rated active players registered with the Wales chess federation (WLS), ranked by FIDE standard rating out of 241 rated players. Open a profile to see the player's ratings, opening repertoire and available games, or to prepare for a game against them.

Rank	Player	Federation	Standard	Rapid	Blitz	Platform
#01	Jose Camacho Collados IM	WLS	2,350	2,290	2,262	Chess.com
#02	Ioan Rees FM	WLS	2,267	-	2,270	Chess.com
#03	Jonathan L B Blackburn FM	WLS	2,239	2,168	2,178	Chess.com
#04	Carl Strugnell FM	WLS	2,211	2,200	2,159	Chess.com
#05	John G Cooper IM	WLS	2,206	2,201	-	Chess.com
#06	Alexis M Harakis FM	WLS	2,171	2,194	2,172
#07	Sven P. Zeidler FM	WLS	2,169	-	-
#08	Ifan Rathbone-Jones CM	WLS	2,148	1,916	1,867	Chess.com
#09	Peter Varley FM	WLS	2,143	2,116	2,119
#10	Grzegorz Toczek FM	WLS	2,139	2,083	2,110	Chess.com
#11	Iwan Cave	WLS	2,125	1,895	1,819	Chess.com
#12	Tim Kett FM	WLS	2,117	2,087	2,101	Chess.com
#13	Thomas Brown	WLS	2,065	2,068	1,993
#14	Alex Freeland	WLS	2,056	1,984	1,940
#15	Olivia Smith WFM	WLS	2,050	1,953	2,007	Chess.com
#16	Alex Bullen CM	WLS	2,048	1,997	2,042	Chess.com
#17	Paul Atkinson CM	WLS	2,041	-	2,141
#18	Jane Richmond WFM	WLS	2,029	1,987	2,047
#19	James Tapp	WLS	2,018	2,064	1,950
#20	Hugo Fowler	WLS	2,005	1,876	1,902
#21	Gareth Yeo	WLS	2,001	-	1,949
#22	Allan J Pleasants	WLS	1,995	2,092	-
#23	Pete Heaven	WLS	1,989	1,958	2,036
#24	Jason Garcia FM	WLS	1,988	2,067	2,048	Chess.com
#25	Adam J Dalton	WLS	1,986	-	-
#26	Maurice McCarthy	WLS	1,985	1,993	-
#27	Jonathan A. Gilbert	WLS	1,985	2,046	2,003
#28	Francis Rayner	WLS	1,976	-	-
#29	Michael J Lexton	WLS	1,971	-	-
#30	Joe Fathallah	WLS	1,964	2,012	1,967
#31	Andrew Gibbons	WLS	1,963	-	-
#32	Bence Szakmany	WLS	1,961	1,712	1,744
#33	Nasir Rizvi	WLS	1,961	1,898	1,980
#34	Richard Miles	WLS	1,960	-	-
#35	John Fletcher CM	WLS	1,959	-	-
#36	Ian Robert Jones	WLS	1,958	2,041	-
#37	Nicolas Van Noorden	WLS	1,957	-	-
#38	Leon Zedlmayer	WLS	1,956	-	1,869
#39	Sam Jukes	WLS	1,956	1,943	1,898
#40	Luis Ortiz Sanchez	WLS	1,956	1,864	1,878
#41	Alan Young	WLS	1,955	2,074	-
#42	Imogen A L Camp WCM	WLS	1,952	1,783	1,808
#43	Gareth Morris	WLS	1,952	2,027	1,978
#44	Oliver Williams	WLS	1,946	-	-
#45	William Hewitt	WLS	1,941	2,016	2,080
#46	Derek Jones	WLS	1,936	2,000	-
#47	Paul Hatchett	WLS	1,929	1,960	1,995
#48	Rudy Van Kemenade	WLS	1,923	2,000	1,900
#49	Mark A Bastow	WLS	1,918	1,852	-
#50	Elliott MacNeil	WLS	1,917	1,777	1,792
#51	David McGhee	WLS	1,917	1,665	1,733
#52	Duncan MacDonald	WLS	1,915	1,662	1,865
#53	David C Perrett	WLS	1,912	-	-
#54	Nigel John Moyse	WLS	1,907	1,858	-
#55	Alan D Chapman	WLS	1,906	1,910	-
#56	Adam J May	WLS	1,902	-	-
#57	Anthony Hughes CM	WLS	1,895	1,866	1,815	Chess.com
#58	Callum A Smith	WLS	1,886	1,790	1,824
#59	Peter M Bevan	WLS	1,886	1,925	1,921
#60	Jonathan Thomas	WLS	1,880	-	-
#61	Duncan Williams	WLS	1,875	1,817	1,803
#62	Steve Smith	WLS	1,874	-	1,856
#63	Ben Brewer	WLS	1,874	-	1,836
#64	John P Weatherlake	WLS	1,869	-	1,871
#65	Mark Thomas	WLS	1,869	1,929	-
#66	Shion Rowlands	WLS	1,859	-	-
#67	Mark Adams CM	WLS	1,858	1,972	1,941
#68	Joseph David Turner	WLS	1,846	1,901	-
#69	Lee Davis CM	WLS	1,845	1,954	1,885
#70	John Trevelyan	WLS	1,839	-	-
#71	Madged Bani Hani	WLS	1,837	1,745	1,852
#72	Dai James	WLS	1,837	1,923	1,793
#73	Jake Hurley	WLS	1,836	-	1,899
#74	Michael Whale	WLS	1,833	-	1,888
#75	Hywel Griffiths	WLS	1,832	1,869	-
#76	Bill Harle	WLS	1,831	-	1,816
#77	Emma Zihan Kong	WLS	1,829	1,569	1,761
#78	Neil Stuart	WLS	1,828	1,865	-
#79	Gary Thomas	WLS	1,828	-	-
#80	Michael Binks	WLS	1,826	1,880	1,963
#81	Gareth Harper	WLS	1,822	-	-
#82	Andrew R Smith	WLS	1,820	-	-
#83	Les Philpin	WLS	1,812	-	-
#84	Daniel Wilmot	WLS	1,811	1,878	1,912
#85	Martin C Jones	WLS	1,810	-	-
#86	Luke Barry	WLS	1,807	-	-
#87	Peter J Kitchen	WLS	1,805	-	-
#88	Gwyn Havard	WLS	1,805	-	1,873
#89	Vismith Prabhu	WLS	1,802	1,715	1,864
#90	Steve Jones	WLS	1,801	-	-
#91	Piotr Graczyk	WLS	1,799	-	1,759
#92	Roy Thomas	WLS	1,798	1,868	1,822
#93	Dale Westcott	WLS	1,798	1,780	1,758
#94	Joseph Browse	WLS	1,795	1,659	1,738
#95	Georgi Korovski	WLS	1,794	1,756	1,835
#96	Keith Downey	WLS	1,793	-	1,833
#97	Lynda Smith WCM	WLS	1,792	-	-
#98	Callum Davies	WLS	1,789	1,889	1,785
#99	Jamie Roberts	WLS	1,789	1,808	1,782
#100	Sergio Esteves	WLS	1,789	-	1,821

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