GM Michael Adams

Country

ENG

Birth Year

1971 (Age ≈55)

Gender

M

Title

Grandmaster

FIDE ID

400041

FIDE ratings

2594.2 -2.8

Classical

Live rating

2614

Rapid

Published FIDE

2695

Blitz

Published FIDE

Official classical ranks

World rank
#154
National rank · ENG
#5

Active players · Oct 2026 FIDE list ⓘ

FIDE rating history

Highest recorded rating
2761 Sep 2013
Recorded years
2001–2026
Archived games
1169

Based on available monthly lists and saved games.

Live rankings

ECF ratings

English rankings

ECF code 105483B · 4NCL Wood Green · Latest available list 2026-10-01

2701Standard
2642Rapid
2540Blitz

ECF rating history

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

Published lists
DateTypeScaleOriginalRevised
2026-10-01blitzrating25402540
2026-10-01rapidrating26422642
2026-10-01standardrating27012701
2026-09-01blitzrating25402540
2026-09-01rapidrating26422642
2026-09-01standardrating27012701
2026-08-01blitzrating25402540
2026-08-01rapidrating26422642
2026-08-01standardrating26962696
2026-07-01blitzrating25402540
2026-07-01rapidrating26422642
2026-07-01standardrating27522752
2026-06-01blitzrating25402540
2026-06-01rapidrating26422642
2026-06-01standardrating27522752
2026-05-01blitzrating25402540
2026-05-01rapidrating26422642
2026-05-01standardrating27452745
2026-04-01blitzrating25402540
2026-04-01rapidrating26422642
2026-04-01standardrating27452745
2026-03-01blitzrating25402540
2026-03-01rapidrating26812681
2026-03-01standardrating27452745
2026-02-01blitzrating25402540
2026-02-01rapidrating26812681
2026-02-01standardrating27452745
2026-01-01blitzrating25402540
2026-01-01rapidrating26812681
2026-01-01standardrating27452745
2025-12-01blitzrating25402540
2025-12-01rapidrating26702670
2025-12-01standardrating27532745
2025-11-01blitzrating25402540
2025-11-01rapidrating26702670
2025-11-01standardrating27532753
2025-10-01blitzrating25402540
2025-10-01rapidrating26702670
2025-10-01standardrating27532753
2025-09-01blitzrating25402540
2025-09-01rapidrating26702670
2025-09-01standardrating27532753
2025-08-01blitzrating25392540
2025-08-01rapidrating26642664
2025-08-01standardrating27462746
2025-07-01blitzrating25272528
2025-07-01rapidrating26692669
2025-07-01standardrating27262726
2025-06-01blitzrating25272528
2025-06-01rapidrating26692669

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: 2026-10-27 (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
801 2016-12-15 8th London Classic 2016 London ENG 6.2 Vladimir Kramnik Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 39 Open
802 2016-12-13 8th London Classic 2016 London ENG 5.5 Michael Adams Veselin Topalov 1-0 33 Open
803 2016-12-12 8th London Classic 2016 London ENG 4.4 Viswanathan Anand Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 32 Open
804 2016-12-11 8th London Classic 2016 London ENG 3.5 Michael Adams Anish Giri 1/2-1/2 62 Open
805 2016-12-10 8th London Classic 2016 London ENG 2.3 Wesley So Michael Adams 1-0 40 Open
806 2016-12-09 8th London Classic 2016 London ENG 1.5 Levon Aronian Michael Adams 1-0 41 Open
807 2016-11-27 Kilkenny Masters Kilkenny IRL 6.3 Michael Adams Gawain C B Maroroa Jones 1-0 48 Open
808 2016-11-27 Kilkenny Masters Kilkenny IRL 5.2 Michael Adams Bogdan Lalic 1/2-1/2 47 Open
809 2016-11-26 Kilkenny Masters Kilkenny IRL 4.1 Sebastien Maze Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 15 Open
810 2016-11-26 Kilkenny Masters Kilkenny IRL 3.1 Matthieu Cornette Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 16 Open
811 2016-11-26 Kilkenny Masters Kilkenny IRL 2.1 Michael Adams Sam E. Collins 1-0 27 Open
812 2016-11-25 Kilkenny Masters Kilkenny IRL 1.1 Peewee Van Voorthuijsen Michael Adams 0-1 30 Open
813 2016-11-20 Bundesliga 2016-17 Baden Baden GER 4.2 Michael Adams Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu 1/2-1/2 21 Open
814 2016-11-19 Bundesliga 2016-17 Baden Baden GER 3.1 Maxim Rodshtein Michael Adams 0-1 46 Open
815 2016-10-16 Bundesliga 2016-17 Munich GER 2.1 Michael Adams Stefan Kindermann 1-0 31 Open
816 2016-10-15 Bundesliga 2016-17 Munich GER 1.1 Michael Fedorovsky Michael Adams 0-1 41 Open
817 2016-10-09 chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 9.2 Fabiano Caruana Michael Adams 1-0 45 Open
818 2016-10-08 chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 8.3 Michael Adams Benjamin Bok 1-0 44 Open
819 2016-10-07 chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 7.4 David W L Howell Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 36 Open
820 2016-10-06 chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 6.6 Michael Adams Abhijeet Gupta 1-0 34 Open
821 2016-10-05 chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 5.5 Nils Grandelius Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 31 Open
822 2016-10-04 chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 4.5 Michael Adams Yifan Hou 1/2-1/2 32 Open
823 2016-10-03 chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 3.9 Harika Dronavalli Michael Adams 0-1 53 Open
824 2016-10-02 chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 2.4 Michael Adams Jan-Christian Schroeder 1/2-1/2 39 Open
825 2016-10-01 chess.com IoM Masters Douglas ENG 1.4 Alan Tate Michael Adams 0-1 45 Open
826 2016-09-13 42nd Olympiad 2016 Baku AZE 11.6 Emilio Cordova Michael Adams 0-1 41 Open
827 2016-09-12 42nd Olympiad 2016 Baku AZE 10.4 Michael Adams Shakhriyar Mamedyarov 1/2-1/2 31 Open
828 2016-09-11 42nd Olympiad 2016 Baku AZE 9.3 Ehsan Ghaem Maghami Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 31 Open
829 2016-09-10 42nd Olympiad 2016 Baku AZE 8.3 Michael Adams Pentala Harikrishna 1/2-1/2 58 Open
830 2016-09-09 42nd Olympiad 2016 Baku AZE 7.6 Michael Adams Yue Wang 1-0 39 Open
831 2016-09-06 42nd Olympiad 2016 Baku AZE 5.14 Quang Liem Le Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 70 Open
832 2016-09-05 42nd Olympiad 2016 Baku AZE 4.6 Michael Adams Anish Giri 1/2-1/2 28 Open
833 2016-09-04 42nd Olympiad 2016 Baku AZE 3.7 Michael Adams Evgeny Bareev 1-0 32 Open
834 2016-09-03 42nd Olympiad 2016 Baku AZE 2.6 Muhammad Lutfi Ali Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 166 Open
835 2016-08-05 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 11.1 Martin Brown Michael Adams 0-1 28 Open
836 2016-08-04 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 10.1 Michael Adams Daniel W Gormally 1-0 40 Open
837 2016-08-03 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 9.1 Gawain C B Maroroa Jones Michael Adams 0-1 40 Open
838 2016-08-02 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 8.1 Michael Adams David J Eggleston 1-0 41 Open
839 2016-08-01 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 7.1 David W L Howell Michael Adams 0-1 77 Open
840 2016-07-30 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 6.2 Michael Adams Justin Tan 1-0 35 Open
841 2016-07-29 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 5.1 Nicholas Pert Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 21 Open
842 2016-07-28 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 4.2 Michael Adams Richard G Pert 1-0 50 Open
843 2016-07-27 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 3.1 Peter K Wells Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 32 Open
844 2016-07-26 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 2.1 Michael Adams Akshaya Kalaiyalahan 1-0 54 Open
845 2016-07-25 103rd ch-GBR 2016 Bournemouth ENG 1.1 Peter Shaw Michael Adams 0-1 62 Open
846 2016-04-10 Bundesliga 2015-16 Baden Baden GER 13.4 Michael Adams Evgeny Romanov 1/2-1/2 38 Open
847 2016-04-09 Bundesliga 2015-16 Baden Baden GER 12.3 Dmitry Jakovenko Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 25 Open
848 2016-03-13 Bundesliga 2015-16 Emsdetten GER 11.5 Laurent Fressinet Michael Adams 1/2-1/2 56 Open
849 2016-03-12 Bundesliga 2015-16 Emsdetten GER 10.5 Michael Adams Mikheil Mchedlishvili 1/2-1/2 55 Open
850 2016-02-27 King's Head Blitz 2016 London ENG 4.2 Michael Adams Mark L Hebden 1/2-1/2 61 Open

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