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England (Active players)

# Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year
1 Adams, Michael g ENG 2697 19 1971
2 Short, Nigel D g ENG 2685 9 1965
3 McShane, Luke J g ENG 2623 8 1984
4 Howell, David W L g ENG 2620 18 1990
5 Jones, Gawain C B g ENG 2557 17 1987
6 Haslinger, Stewart G g ENG 2556 7 1981
7 Pert, Nicholas g ENG 2541 0 1981
8 Hebden, Mark L g ENG 2539 7 1958
9 Conquest, Stuart C g ENG 2537 11 1967
10 Speelman, Jon S g ENG 2530 0 1956
11 Gordon, Stephen J g ENG 2529 9 1986
12 Williams, Simon K g ENG 2527 17 1979
13 Flear, Glenn C g ENG 2515 9 1959
13 Turner, Matthew J g ENG 2515 0 1975
15 Wells, Peter K g ENG 2506 7 1965
16 Davies, Nigel R g ENG 2494 0 1960
16 King, Daniel J g ENG 2494 0 1963
18 Gormally, Daniel W g ENG 2491 0 1976
19 Emms, John M g ENG 2484 0 1967
20 Plaskett, H James g ENG 2475 15 1960
21 Pert, Richard G m ENG 2463 7 1981
22 D`Costa, Lorin A R m ENG 2462 2 1984
23 Arkell, Keith C g ENG 2456 32 1961
24 Trent, Lawrence m ENG 2454 0 1986
25 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2452 0 1978
26 Summerscale, Aaron P g ENG 2436 0 1969
27 Palliser, Richard J D m ENG 2435 0 1981
28 Greet, Andrew N m ENG 2433 5 1979
29 Ward, Chris G g ENG 2431 0 1968
30 Hanley, Craig A m ENG 2429 0 1984
31 Ledger, Andrew J m ENG 2423 9 1969
32 McDonald, Neil g ENG 2421 0 1967
33 Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2417 17 1980
33 Mah, Karl C C m ENG 2417 0 1980
35 Hunt, Adam C m ENG 2414 6 1980
36 Martin, Andrew D m ENG 2411 0 1957
37 Hawkins, Jonathan f ENG 2410 0 1983
38 Crawley, Gavin m ENG 2404 0 1963
39 Cobb, Charles A m ENG 2396 0 1978
39 Rendle, Thomas E m ENG 2396 0 1986

England (Active players) Only Women

# Name Title Fed Rating G B-Year
1 Hunt, Harriet V m ENG 2452 0 1978
2 Houska, Jovanka m ENG 2417 17 1980
3 Lalic, Susan K m ENG 2298 0 1965
4 Corke, Anya wg ENG 2257 0 1990
5 Lauterbach, Ingrid wm ENG 2156 8 1960
6 Regan, Natasha K wm ENG 2152 0 1971
7 Bellin, Jana wg ENG 2151 0 1947
8 Grigoryan, Meri wf ENG 2121 9 1977
9 Tidman, Sophie E wf ENG 2110 0 1984
10 Forbes, Cathy wm ENG 2106 0 1968
11 Bhatia, Kanwal K ENG 2072 4 1981
12 Hegarty, Sarah N ENG 2067 0 1988
13 Chevannes, Sabrina L wf ENG 2047 8 1986
14 Yurenok, Maria S wf ENG 1984 17 1976
15 Summerscale, Claire E ENG 1980 2 1975
16 Pass, Deborah J wf ENG 1948 11 1967
17 Norman, Dinah M wc ENG 1932 0 1946
18 Dines, Sheila J ENG 1931 0 1993
19 Messam-Sparks, Lateefah ENG 1904 0 1992
20 Martin, Katie A ENG 1901 4 1989
21 Thilaganathan, Jessica ENG 1900 0 1992
22 Hoare, Amy ENG 1894 0 1996
23 Jain, Radha ENG 1883 0 1996
24 Moore, Gillian A ENG 1837 0 1944
25 Stepanyan, Astghik ENG 1817 0 1994

http://ratings.fide.com/topfed.phtml?to ... ountry=ENG

Something wrong here. Jonathan Parker is not on the list?

Jonathan Rogers wrote:Something wrong here. Jonathan Parker is not on the list?

I think it's purely because he's considered inactive by FIDE but of course he'll magically re-appear in July when the 4NCL is rated. The same is true of Dagne Ciuksyte and much lower down the list a certain L Cooper who hasn't played a rated game since Jan 2009

No doubt so. How many games, over how long a period, must one play in order to be considered active?

I have to admit I'm a bit confused by their criteria. Dagne, for example, was inactive in January, active in March and inactive again in May having not played any rated games since the end of 2008!

From my point of view I use the FIDE list on their site. It can lead to the absurd situation where a player has played in half a dozen European leagues throughout the season but could potentially be inactive in January and March and then appear in May/July having players 30-40 games if, as is often the case, the games are all rated together.

Other players that have played in the 4NCL but are allegedly inactive are Sheila Jackson and Selina Khoo and I daresay there are several more.

Jonathan Rogers wrote:How many games, over how long a period, must one play in order to be considered active?

I quote the following from the Rating Regulations in the FIDE Handbook:

"7.23a A player is considered to commence inactivity if he plays no rated games in a one year period.

7.23b Inactive players are shown on the next two years of rating lists after starting being considered inactive. Their names are then flagged as inactive in the alphabetical section of the rating list and removed from the national federation’s lists which contain only the list of active players.

7.23c A player regains his activity if he plays at least one rated game in a period and he is then listed on the next list."

Hence it appears that the official answer to Jonathan's question is that you can remain active by playing one rated game every three years. I can't explain why in practice players seem to become inactive more quickly than that.

Presumably the distinction is whether you have been inactive in the past. If you haven't been considered inactive in the past two years then you become inactive after "not playing" for one year. The moment you play another game you then have a 2 year gap before the clock starts ticking again.