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New ECF list is out: Who are the big movers and shakers?

By Leon Watson · January 24, 2019

The new English Chess Federation grading list is out and yet again it has seen some big rises for Battersea players.

Among the biggest climbers this year are:

15 grading points – Tony Ashby 181-196
9 grading points – Denis Dupuis 127-136
19 grading points – FM Koby Kalavannan 216-235
7 grading points – Tommaso Penna 178-185
9 grading points – Kazi Rahman 167-176
10 grading points – CM Shreyas Royal 176-186
16 grading points – Boris Stoyanov 124-140
10 grading points – Viktor Stoyanov 196-206
8 grading points – Jacques Tivillier 154-162
8 grading points – Midhun Unnikrishnan 203-211
7 grading points – GM Simon Williams 237-244 (and in the ECF’s Top 15 Players!)

Keeping an accurate count of who is and who isn’t a Battersea player is difficult because differing definitions, however a rough average is grade is 157.

There are also a number of first grades handed out to new Battersea players, for example Tom Butterworth steams in with a rapid-play grade of 118.

Harry Williamson has perhaps the most impressive first grade of all with 164, way above his estimate around the 120 mark.

And Duncan Kerr has got a first standard-play grade since being a junior of 172.

Check out the full, searchable and sortable list here.