Nigel Birtwistle

Country

ENG

Birth Year

1968

Gender

Title

FIDE ID

406945

FIDE ratings

2049

Classical

Published FIDE

2028

Rapid

Published FIDE

2065

Blitz

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

World rank: #20963
National rank · ENG: #334

Active players · Oct 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

FIDE rating history

Highest recorded rating: 2229 Jul 2010
Recorded years: 2008–2026
Archived games: 154

Based on available monthly lists and saved games.

ECF ratings

English rankings

ECF code 106801F · Grantham · Latest available list 2026-10-01

2128Standard

2063Rapid

1976Blitz

ECF rating history

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

Published lists

Date	Type	Scale	Original	Revised
2026-10-01	blitz	rating	1976	1976
2026-10-01	rapid	rating	2063	2063
2026-10-01	standard	rating	2128	2128
2026-09-01	rapid	rating	2063	2063
2026-09-01	standard	rating	2138	2138
2026-08-01	rapid	rating	2063	2063
2026-08-01	standard	rating	2138	2138
2026-07-01	rapid	rating	2063	2063
2026-07-01	standard	rating	2138	2138
2026-06-01	rapid	rating	2063	2063
2026-06-01	standard	rating	2147	2147
2026-05-01	rapid	rating	2063	2063
2026-05-01	standard	rating	2154	2154
2026-04-01	rapid	rating	2063	2063
2026-04-01	standard	rating	2137	2140
2026-03-01	rapid	rating	2096	2096
2026-03-01	standard	rating	2131	2131
2026-02-01	rapid	rating	2061	2061
2026-02-01	standard	rating	2135	2119
2026-01-01	rapid	rating	2061	2061
2026-01-01	standard	rating	2103	2103
2025-12-01	rapid	rating	2061	2061
2025-12-01	standard	rating	2096	2096
2025-11-01	rapid	rating	2061	2061
2025-11-01	standard	rating	2135	2120
2025-10-01	rapid	rating	2061	2061
2025-10-01	standard	rating	2130	2130
2025-09-01	rapid	rating	2061	2061
2025-09-01	standard	rating	2141	2141
2025-08-01	rapid	rating	2094	2094
2025-08-01	standard	rating	2141	2141
2025-07-01	rapid	rating	2094	2094
2025-07-01	standard	rating	2157	2157
2025-06-01	rapid	rating	2094	2094
2025-06-01	standard	rating	2157	2157
2025-05-01	rapid	rating	2094	2094
2025-05-01	standard	rating	2121	2121
2025-04-01	rapid	rating	2094	2094
2025-04-01	standard	rating	2115	2115
2025-03-01	rapid	rating	2109	2109
2025-03-01	standard	rating	2115	2115
2025-02-01	rapid	rating	2109	2109
2025-02-01	standard	rating	2115	2115
2025-01-01	rapid	rating	2109	2109
2025-01-01	standard	rating	2114	2114
2024-12-01	rapid	rating	2109	2109
2024-12-01	standard	rating	2114	2114
2024-11-01	rapid	rating	2109	2109
2024-11-01	standard	rating	2128	2128
2024-10-01	rapid	rating	2109	2109

FIDE rating history

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Available Games

Published games available in our archive; coverage varies by tournament. Archive last checked: 2026-10-13 (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	2025-03-01	British Rapidplay 2025	Peterborough ENG	5.38	Nigel Birtwistle	Anastasios Nezis	1-0	38	Open
52	2025-03-01	British Rapidplay 2025	Peterborough ENG	4.12	Rafe Martyn	Nigel Birtwistle	1-0	41	Open
53	2025-03-01	British Rapidplay 2025	Peterborough ENG	3.13	Nigel Birtwistle	Tarun Kanyamarala	1/2-1/2	74	Open
54	2025-03-01	British Rapidplay 2025	Peterborough ENG	2.43	Peter Davies	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	44	Open
55	2025-02-16	4NCL 2024-25	England ENG	6.44	Nigel Birtwistle	Neil Berry	0-1	32	Open
56	2025-02-15	4NCL 2024-25	England ENG	5.12	Viktor Erdos	Nigel Birtwistle	1-0	31	Open
57	2025-01-26	4NCL 2024-25	England ENG	4.43	Nigel Birtwistle	Andrew J Ledger	0-1	44	Open
58	2025-01-25	4NCL 2024-25	England ENG	3.65	Harry Li	Nigel Birtwistle	1/2-1/2	23	Open
59	2024-11-24	4NCL 2024-25	England ENG	2.66	Elmira Mirzoeva	Nigel Birtwistle	1-0	32	Open
60	2024-11-23	4NCL 2024-25	England ENG	1.36	Nigel Birtwistle	Kamila Hryshchenko	0-1	39	Open
61	2024-09-08	Hull 4NCL Congress 2024	Hull ENG	5.13	Nigel Birtwistle	Senith Thenula Gunarathne	1-0	45	Open
62	2024-09-08	Hull 4NCL Congress 2024	Hull ENG	4.11	Jim W R Nicholson	Nigel Birtwistle	1/2-1/2	16	Open
63	2024-09-07	Hull 4NCL Congress 2024	Hull ENG	3.14	Nigel Birtwistle	Xiaofan Li	1/2-1/2	39	Open
64	2024-09-07	Hull 4NCL Congress 2024	Hull ENG	2.15	Paul Brencher	Nigel Birtwistle	1/2-1/2	33	Open
65	2024-09-06	Hull 4NCL Congress 2024	Hull ENG	1.8	Nigel Birtwistle	Andrew Ponting	0-1	59	Open
66	2024-05-06	4NCL Div 2 2023-24	England ENG	11.67	Ivan J Myall	Nigel Birtwistle	1-0	32	Open
67	2024-05-05	4NCL Div 2 2023-24	England ENG	10.28	Julie Oh	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	29	Open
68	2024-04-01	4NCL Easter Congress 2024	Peterborough ENG	7.12	Shambavi Hariharan	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	56	Open
69	2024-04-01	4NCL Easter Congress 2024	Peterborough ENG	6.18	Nigel Birtwistle	George Miller	1-0	60	Open
70	2024-03-31	4NCL Easter Congress 2024	Peterborough ENG	5.14	Venkata Ananth Akshay Kilambi	Nigel Birtwistle	1/2-1/2	24	Open
71	2024-03-31	4NCL Easter Congress 2024	Peterborough ENG	4.12	Nigel Birtwistle	Luoke Wang	0-1	39	Open
72	2024-03-30	4NCL Easter Congress 2024	Peterborough ENG	3.5	Lorenzo Fava	Nigel Birtwistle	1-0	34	Open
73	2024-03-30	4NCL Easter Congress 2024	Peterborough ENG	2.15	Nigel Birtwistle	Raymond Wynarczyk	1-0	50	Open
74	2024-03-17	4NCL Div 2 2023-24	England ENG	8.45	Nigel Birtwistle	Arjun Kolani	1/2-1/2	56	Open
75	2024-03-16	4NCL Div 2 2023-24	England ENG	7.55	Jude Shearsby	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	68	Open
76	2024-03-03	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	9.38	Nigel Birtwistle	Bruce L Baer	0-1	41	Open
77	2024-03-03	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	8.25	Kai Hanache	Nigel Birtwistle	1-0	45	Open
78	2024-03-03	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	7.11	Nigel Birtwistle	Steven A Jones	0-1	47	Open
79	2024-03-03	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	11.4	Nigel Birtwistle	Kevin C McCarthy	1/2-1/2	18	Open
80	2024-03-03	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	10.5	Keatan Patel	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	23	Open
81	2024-03-02	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	6.26	Srivathsan Sasikumar	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	47	Open
82	2024-03-02	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	5.22	Nigel Birtwistle	Lorenzo Fava	1/2-1/2	72	Open
83	2024-03-02	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	4.28	Sebastian Mokhber-Garcia	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	41	Open
84	2024-03-02	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	3.3	Nigel Birtwistle	Peter T Roberson	0-1	26	Open
85	2024-03-02	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	2.36	Adithya Vaidyanathan	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	108	Open
86	2024-03-02	British Rapidplay 2024	Peterborough ENG	1.42	Nigel Birtwistle	Sanket Markan	1-0	66	Open
87	2024-02-11	4NCL Div 2 2023-24	England ENG	6.17	Nigel Birtwistle	Sarah Scott	0-1	29	Open
88	2024-02-10	4NCL Div 2 2023-24	England ENG	5.66	Nigel Birtwistle	Tom Farrand	0-1	47	Open
89	2024-01-13	4NCL Div 2 2023-24	England ENG	3.4	Peter A N Webster	Nigel Birtwistle	1/2-1/2	26	Open
90	2023-11-11	4NCL Div 2 2023-24	England ENG	2.15	Daniel GH Gallagher	Nigel Birtwistle	1-0	35	Open
91	2023-11-11	4NCL Div 2 2023-24	England ENG	1.46	Shrook Wafa	Nigel Birtwistle	1-0	41	Open
92	2023-10-29	Scarborough Congress 2023	Scarborough ENG	5.4	Nigel Birtwistle	Peter G Large	0-1	48	Open
93	2023-10-29	Scarborough Congress 2023	Scarborough ENG	4.7	Billy Fellowes	Nigel Birtwistle	1/2-1/2	33	Open
94	2023-10-28	Scarborough Congress 2023	Scarborough ENG	3.13	Nigel Birtwistle	Raymond J Ilett	1-0	38	Open
95	2023-10-28	Scarborough Congress 2023	Scarborough ENG	2.21	Michael Ridge	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	35	Open
96	2023-10-27	Scarborough Congress 2023	Scarborough ENG	1.9	Nigel Birtwistle	Unidentified player	0-1	48	Open
97	2022-10-16	Hull 4NCL Open 2022	Hull ENG	5.4	Nigel Birtwistle	Samuel A Milson	1/2-1/2	69	Open
98	2022-10-16	Hull 4NCL Open 2022	Hull ENG	4.6	Sheng Liang Bernard Chan	Nigel Birtwistle	0-1	47	Open
99	2022-10-15	Hull 4NCL Open 2022	Hull ENG	3.1	Nigel Birtwistle	Yaoyao Zhu	1-0	39	Open
100	2022-10-15	Hull 4NCL Open 2022	Hull ENG	2.5	James Merriman	Nigel Birtwistle	1-0	34	Open