Richard A Bates

Country

ENG

Birth Year

1979

Gender

M

Title

International Master

FIDE ID

403555

FIDE ratings

2287

Classical

Published FIDE

2374

Rapid

Published FIDE

2268

Blitz

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

World rank
#4515
National rank · ENG
#73

Active players · Oct 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

FIDE rating history

Highest recorded rating
2397 Oct 2017
Recorded years
2001–2026
Archived games
561

Based on available monthly lists and saved games.

ECF ratings

English rankings

ECF code 101997B · Hackney · Latest available list 2026-10-01

2348Standard
2288Rapid
2140Blitz · Provisional

ECF rating history

Revised published ratings. Pre-July 2020 grades use a separate scale.

Published lists
DateTypeScaleOriginalRevised
2026-10-01blitzrating21402140
2026-10-01rapidrating22882288
2026-10-01standardrating23482348
2026-09-01blitzrating21402140
2026-09-01rapidrating22882288
2026-09-01standardrating23432343
2026-08-01blitzrating21402140
2026-08-01rapidrating22882288
2026-08-01standardrating23532353
2026-07-01blitzrating21402140
2026-07-01rapidrating22882288
2026-07-01standardrating23422342
2026-06-01blitzrating21402140
2026-06-01rapidrating22882288
2026-06-01standardrating23182318
2026-05-01blitzrating21402140
2026-05-01rapidrating22882288
2026-05-01standardrating22852285
2026-04-01blitzrating21402140
2026-04-01rapidrating22882288
2026-04-01standardrating22832283
2026-03-01blitzrating21402140
2026-03-01rapidrating23252325
2026-03-01standardrating22942294
2026-02-01rapidrating23252325
2026-02-01standardrating23242324
2026-01-01rapidrating23252325
2026-01-01standardrating23252325
2025-12-01rapidrating23252325
2025-12-01standardrating23372337
2025-11-01rapidrating23252325
2025-11-01standardrating23202320
2025-10-01rapidrating23252325
2025-10-01standardrating23072307
2025-09-01rapidrating23252325
2025-09-01standardrating23072307
2025-08-01rapidrating23252325
2025-08-01standardrating23072307
2025-07-01rapidrating23252325
2025-07-01standardrating23172317
2025-06-01rapidrating23252325
2025-06-01standardrating23212321
2025-05-01rapidrating23252325
2025-05-01standardrating23082308
2025-04-01rapidrating23252325
2025-04-01standardrating23512351
2025-03-01rapidrating23252325
2025-03-01standardrating23582358
2025-02-01rapidrating23252325
2025-02-01standardrating23652367

FIDE rating history

Published rating lists through Oct 2026.

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Available Games

Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-10-09 (UTC).

Online games are identified from known tournament names, playing sites and PGN mode. Other games are listed as OTB (over-the-board).

# Date Event Site Round White Black Result Moves View
51 2025-01-26 4NCL 2024-25 England ENG 4.42 Richard A Bates Stephen C V Prior 1-0 78 Open
52 2025-01-25 4NCL 2024-25 England ENG 3.22 Mircea-Emilian Parligras Richard A Bates 1-0 29 Open
53 2024-12-07 London Classic Masters London ENG 9.35 Yang-Fan Zhou Richard A Bates 1-0 40 Open
54 2024-12-06 London Classic Masters London ENG 8.12 Richard A Bates Vlad-Victor Barnaure 1-0 34 Open
55 2024-12-05 London Classic Masters London ENG 7.21 Supratit Banerjee Richard A Bates 0-1 54 Open
56 2024-12-03 London Classic Masters London ENG 6.2 Richard A Bates Manmay Chopra 1/2-1/2 20 Open
57 2024-12-02 London Classic Masters London ENG 5.2 Peter J Sowray Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 66 Open
58 2024-12-01 London Classic Masters London ENG 4.7 Richard A Bates Ilia Smirin 0-1 33 Open
59 2024-11-30 London Classic Masters London ENG 3.2 Ieysaa Bin-Suhayl Richard A Bates 0-1 46 Open
60 2024-11-30 London Classic Masters London ENG 2.5 Richard A Bates Vignir Vatnar Stefansson 0-1 42 Open
61 2024-11-29 London Classic Masters London ENG 1.3 Remy Rushbrooke Richard A Bates 0-1 31 Open
62 2024-11-24 4NCL 2024-25 England ENG 2.52 Richard A Bates Martin Jogstad 1/2-1/2 49 Open
63 2024-11-23 4NCL 2024-25 England ENG 1.54 Andreea Navrotescu Richard A Bates 1-0 56 Open
64 2024-10-25 39th ECC Open 2024 Vrnjacka Banja SRB 6.22 Bardur Orn Birkisson Richard A Bates 1-0 55 Open
65 2024-10-24 39th ECC Open 2024 Vrnjacka Banja SRB 5.15 Richard A Bates Inigo Lopez Mulet 1-0 48 Open
66 2024-10-23 39th ECC Open 2024 Vrnjacka Banja SRB 4.23 Misa Pap Richard A Bates 1-0 80 Open
67 2024-10-22 39th ECC Open 2024 Vrnjacka Banja SRB 3.31 Richard A Bates Adrian Roos 1-0 50 Open
68 2024-10-20 39th ECC Open 2024 Vrnjacka Banja SRB 1.6 Richard A Bates Ante Brkic 0-1 42 Open
69 2024-06-23 English Open 2024 Kenilworth ENG 7.5 Richard A Bates Borna Derakhshani 1/2-1/2 36 Open
70 2024-06-22 English Open 2024 Kenilworth ENG 6.3 Ameet K Ghasi Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 90 Open
71 2024-06-22 English Open 2024 Kenilworth ENG 5.8 Richard A Bates Jude Shearsby 1-0 44 Open
72 2024-06-21 English Open 2024 Kenilworth ENG 4.3 Daniel Howard Fernandez Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 55 Open
73 2024-06-21 English Open 2024 Kenilworth ENG 3.9 Richard A Bates Ana Williams 1-0 51 Open
74 2024-06-20 English Open 2024 Kenilworth ENG 2.17 Maxime Quillaud Richard A Bates 0-1 51 Open
75 2024-06-20 English Open 2024 Kenilworth ENG 1.13 Richard A Bates Luke Anthony Honey 1/2-1/2 59 Open
76 2024-05-06 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 11.2 Richard A Bates Conor E Murphy 1/2-1/2 48 Open
77 2024-05-05 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 10.4 Samuel Chow Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 24 Open
78 2024-05-04 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 9.4 Jonathan Pein Richard A Bates 1-0 47 Open
79 2024-03-17 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 8.5 Jerzy Slaby Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 46 Open
80 2024-03-16 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 7.2 Richard A Bates Richard J D Palliser 0-1 36 Open
81 2024-02-11 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 6.4 Richard A Bates Frederick Waldhausen Gordon 1/2-1/2 28 Open
82 2024-02-10 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 5.4 Siem Van Dael Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 54 Open
83 2024-01-14 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 4.4 Richard A Bates Stanley Badacsonyi 1/2-1/2 41 Open
84 2024-01-13 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 3.6 Svyatoslav Bazakutsa Richard A Bates 1-0 35 Open
85 2023-11-12 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 2.5 Richard A Bates David Zakarian 1-0 30 Open
86 2023-11-11 4NCL 2023-24 England ENG 1.1 Lukasz Cyborowski Richard A Bates 1-0 28 Open
87 2023-10-01 38th ECC Open 2023 Durres ALB 1.5 Richard A Bates Yuriy Kryvoruchko 0-1 35 Open
88 2023-07-30 109th ch-GBR 2023 Leicester ENG 9.13 Thomas Villiers Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 8 Open
89 2023-07-29 109th ch-GBR 2023 Leicester ENG 8.14 Richard A Bates Edward Jackson 1/2-1/2 45 Open
90 2023-07-28 109th ch-GBR 2023 Leicester ENG 7.14 Lan Yao Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 66 Open
91 2023-07-27 109th ch-GBR 2023 Leicester ENG 6.8 Richard A Bates James P Jackson 1/2-1/2 81 Open
92 2023-07-26 109th ch-GBR 2023 Leicester ENG 5.17 Agoston Mihalik Richard A Bates 0-1 72 Open
93 2023-07-25 109th ch-GBR 2023 Leicester ENG 4.16 Richard A Bates Oscar Pollack 1/2-1/2 23 Open
94 2023-07-24 109th ch-GBR 2023 Leicester ENG 3.4 Harry Grieve Richard A Bates 1-0 67 Open
95 2023-07-23 109th ch-GBR 2023 Leicester ENG 2.2 Nicholas Pert Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 45 Open
96 2023-07-22 109th ch-GBR 2023 Leicester ENG 1.21 Richard A Bates Matthew Dignam 1-0 40 Open
97 2023-07-01 County Championship Final Egham ENG 1.1 Richard A Bates Peter N Lee 1-0 34 Open
98 2023-05-01 4NCL 2022-23 Daventry ENG 11.5 Richard A Bates Ioan Rees 1/2-1/2 25 Open
99 2023-04-30 4NCL 2022-23 Daventry ENG 10.4 Richard A Bates Daniel GH Gallagher 1-0 45 Open
100 2023-04-29 4NCL 2022-23 Daventry ENG 9.4 M Paul Townsend Richard A Bates 1/2-1/2 21 Open

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