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Please find below from the FIDE rating server a list of players (many now inactive) who are eligible to claim one of the four titles mentioned above.

FIDE Master

400661 Bailey, R 2340
400416 Bell, Stephen D 2370
400548 Bowden, Karl 2348
407410 Buckley, Simon T 2347
401200 Corden, Martyn J 2305
400700 Cubitt, Clive 2340
403024 Dishman, Stephen 2333
410462 Dorrington, Chris J 2307
400718 Eley, Brian 2335
401072 Gemmell, Peter A 2305
401099 Haakertt, David G 2305
401102 Hall, John B 2305
400807 Hawthorne, John P 2332
400475 Haygarth, Michael J 2375
400890 Holloway, Nigel J 2320
400726 Ivell, Nicholas W 2335
403288 Johnstone, Paul E 2311
400394 Lee, Peter N 2390
400823 Macpherson, Dougald 2330
400408 Markland, Peter R 2390
411922 Ozeren, Kemal J 2308
401463 Piper, Matthew S 2341
402842 Poulton, James R 2364
401021 Singh Sukh, Jinder 2310
400530 Webb, Roger 2370
411086 Wu, Li 2345

Woman FIDE Master

406430 Buckley, Melanie H 2126
402567 Caldwell, Susan L 2150
402591 Granat, Helen 2115
402869 Heron, Heidi D 2115
415359 Ross, Amanda 2135

Candidate Master

401358 Abayasekera, Roger F T 2208
406252 Adair, James R 2247
410730 Adams, David M 2217
401137 Adams, James B 2300
408107 Addison, Bret C 2217
403237 Anderton, Matthew N 2210
423149 Babenko, Sergey 2266
402150 Ball, John D L 2230
408727 Barrett, Stephen J 2243
401412 Beake, Ben D 2260
401366 Bennett, Terence B 2207
409901 Bentley, John L 2201
404306 Blackwell, Clive 2215
408468 Bourne, James R 2221
405132 Boyd, John 2212
402079 Branford, John W 2235
405981 Briggs, Philip J 2209
405540 Brooks, Phil J 2230
402176 Brown, Stuart C 2250
401870 Bryce, Andrew 2225
407437 Buckley, David E 2245
401277 Bulford, Michael J 2285
405531 Burgess, Jon L 2213
402850 Calderwood, Stephen I 2230
401013 Carleton, John J 2293
408255 Carlin, John D 2235
401820 Chandler, Cliff R 2261
413399 Chapman, Terry P D 2261
401285 Clark, Gary M 2285
404357 Cohen, Aron J 2265
404063 Cole, Roland B 2230
405060 Conlon, Joseph P 2211
403725 Connell, Blair N 2263
401528 Cooley, Chris M 2249
400599 Copeland, Graham P 2295
403180 Crocker, Philip J 2225
401889 Dawson, Craig R 2250
401145 De Veauce, Louis 2300
408603 Dighton, Simon 2237
403202 Down, Nicholas A 2230
409774 Dunlop, Chris J 2281
402184 Dutton, Ian R 2215
411698 Eckersley-Waites, Adam 2231
412449 Eckersley-Waites, Tom 2267
401293 Edwards, Paul 2270
401218 Eke, Matthew A 2290
406295 Farndon, David A 2261
401420 Finlayson, Shaun G 2275
403881 Finn, Simon P 2270
403334 Foster, Nicholas E 2290
411906 Fowler, Simon A 2215
402443 Fox, Nick 2210
401439 Franklin, Chris E 2215
401781 Fuller, Keith 2260
401838 Gayson, Peter M 2204
407593 George, Ian M 2207
402192 Georghiou, Paul T 2257
411191 Ghasi, Sumeet K 2203
401714 Granat, Russell G 2213
401382 Griffiths, Peter C 2280
411981 Hanley, James L 2244
403954 Harakis, Alexis M 2220
402494 Harris, Kim L 2205
402028 Harris, Michael 2234
403423 Hastings, Jon J 2237
402206 Hazelton, Martin L 2205
401234 Hillyard, Graham D 2290
406740 Hjc 2205
403520 Hodgson, John H 2205
402974 Holland, Edward N 2224
401579 Holmes, Richard F 2270
406058 Holt, Philip J 2255
402877 Hon, Andrew H L 2210
412287 Hughes, Howard R 2204
402338 Hughes, Philip G 2220
412201 Hulmes, David I 2273
411558 Hutchinson, Paul A 2214
403121 Jackson, Adrian 2218
403164 Jakubovics, Nick S 2217
470546 Jones, Victor G L 2207
402451 Kerridge, M 2210
413470 Khandelwal, Ankush 2219
401919 Kinlay, Jonathan 2220
403130 Knowles, Calvin D 2210
401170 Lambert, Glenn E J 2295
402095 Lee, Darren V 2235
408093 Longson, Alexander 2267
401242 Lund, D Brett 2253
403911 MacDonald, David R 2275
401447 Marlow, Mike W 2237
405116 Mason, Donald J 2227
403806 McFarland, Robert S 2202
402362 Merriman, John 2253
468509 Milovanovic, Aleksander 2233
404926 Molyneux, John 2230
402036 Mooney, David J 2240
403440 Moore, Gerald 2237
410330 Morgan, Ben 2239
412511 Munson, Shaun D 2201
422444 Murphy, Hugh W 2217
401609 Neat, Ken P 2270
404195 Nelson, Jonathan P 2203
404608 Osborne, Marcus E 2255
401854 Pagden, Mark A 2255
402370 Parkes, Tim 2220
402230 Patrick, David I 2211
401455 Perkins, Alan H 2235
409987 Phillips, Thomas D 2238
411485 Pitcher, John 2205
406520 Player, Edmund C 2205
409146 Richmond, Robert J 2205
412384 Roberson, Peter T 2283
401625 Robinson, Peter 2270
405264 Rodericks, Suri J 2295
401471 Roe, Simon J 2275
407941 Rose, Matthew 2282
410411 Ross, Chris N 2230
405370 Rosten, Oliver 2218
403890 Salem, Aymen 2265
402060 Sands, David A 2239
401404 Saverymuttu, Seth 2280
401749 Sharp, Jeremy 2265
411973 Sharpe, Ian W 2236
409502 Shaw, David A 2245
408123 Simpson, James 2249
402303 Singh, Sukh Dave 2225
408816 Sisask, Jesper 2207
401994 Small, Simon W 2245
406589 Smallbone, Kieran D 2219
401498 Smith, Alan A 2282
404489 Snape, Ian L 2229
402460 Speed, Graham 2210
407429 Spence, David J 2221
402427 Stebbings, Anthony J 2241
401935 Stevenson, Philip 2250
404985 Stone, Andrew M 2233
402478 Taylor, Peter P 2222
409456 Thiruchelvam, Murugan 2275
404209 Thornton, Mark H 2235
402320 Townsend, M Paul 2255
404438 Trifunovic, Aleksandar 2246
404624 Twyble, Michael S 2274
402010 Upton, Ian J 2255
403393 Vujatovic, Rajko 2222
403326 Walker, Mark I 2205
404330 Walton, Jonathan S 2225
401757 Waters, R J 2265
401650 Watts, David 2270
410136 Wheeler, Darren P 2272
401196 Wheeler, Mark A 2295
2275740 Williams, Peter A 2239
410977 Williams, Samuel G 2234
401811 Wood, Stephen J 2255
402915 Worsfold, Oliver R 2270
402397 Wright, Daniel 2235
2022443 Yap, Nicolas A 2254

Woman Candidate Master

409596 Anguelov, Iva 2067
407534 Bates, Ruth A 2007
402745 Binns, Toni 2005
402753 Craven, V 2005
402702 Dakin, Wanda 2035
402664 Haslinger, Cathy 2005
402630 Hepworth, Mandy 2080
410861 Khoo, Teresa 2060
410560 Partington, Anna G 2064
402710 Povall, A 2030
402761 Rogers, Jean P M 2005
402699 Seymour, Jane F 2029
404640 Thompson, Tracey 2035
408883 Waller, Laurie 2033
405639 Webster, Fiona 2025
402648 Whitehead, Clare E 2075
402737 Wood, Suzanne 2010

HJC seems to be Andrew Hammond...

James Coleman wrote:HJC seems to be Andrew Hammond...

If you list by rating, also one of the players "suspended" by the ECF.

I don't think Andy Hammond is playing much (if at all). Last time I spoke to him, (about a year ago) he said he might give up. He might also have raised FIDE's ire by playing in Stan Vaughan's "World Championship". FIDE told Aronian he could not accept an invitation to try to take Vaughan's world title off him!

http://www.stanvaughan.com/aboutstan.shtml tells us what our hero is doing now...

The question is - can someone who is no longer recognised by FIDE apply for the title he was entitled to when he was rated?

Kevin Thurlow wrote:http://www.stanvaughan.com/aboutstan.shtml tells us what our hero is doing now...

"What do Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, and Dina Titus have in common? They all gave their people Universal Health Care."

Good to see that his sense of perspective hasn't been affected after all these years of politicking...

Paul Georghiou wrote:Thanks for this list Lawrence. Some names well remembered and some entirely forgotten.

But surely it's not the current rating that counts. To claim a title I believe you only have to reach the qualifying rating once, and this can be achieved midway through a tournament, rendering it a near impossible task to provide a definitive list. Someone would have to go through every tournament that any English player has played in since FIDE ratings were introduced, which would literally take several months to do, working full time....

There are further possibilities. When Mike Twyble had a rating over 2300 in the 1990s, he could not claim the FM title because he had not played enough games. But Lawrence's predecessor told me that the minimum game requirement had been abolished retrospectively, so Mike could claim the title on the basis of his rating in the 1990s ...

On that basis, if I had retired from competitive chess in 1988 as a 190 odd player but who had just made a 2335 performance at Lloyds Bank, thereby getting on the rating list for the first time, I could have reappeared from nowhere today to claim the title ...

The rules on CM and FM titles are now that you just have to hit the rating points of 2200 and 2300 for just the one game. There must be a long back history of players who have achieved this.

A problem with the titles is that FIDE devalued them many years ago by awarding them for high percentage performances against players of unknown strength in its own events, usually Olympiads.

A couple of the better known examples
http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=147683L
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=10700102

http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=180278B
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=9100121

Jonathan Rogers wrote: On that basis, if I had retired from competitive chess in 1988 as a 190 odd player but who had just made a 2335 performance at Lloyds Bank, thereby getting on the rating list for the first time, I could have reappeared from nowhere today to claim the title ...

And we've got at least one such player:
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=421910

Kevin Thurlow wrote:I don't think Andy Hammond is playing much (if at all). Last time I spoke to him, (about a year ago) he said he might give up. He might also have raised FIDE's ire by playing in Stan Vaughan's "World Championship". FIDE told Aronian he could not accept an invitation to try to take Vaughan's world title off him!

http://www.stanvaughan.com/aboutstan.shtml tells us what our hero is doing now...

The question is - can someone who is no longer recognised by FIDE apply for the title he was entitled to when he was rated?

I think it was Akobian rather than Aronian, not that I know much about this Vaughan weirdo. As to whether FIDE really cares a hoot, one would prefer to see corroboration ...

Roger de Coverly wrote:The rules on CM and FM titles are now that you just have to hit the rating points of 2200 and 2300 for just the one game. There must be a long back history of players who have achieved this.

A problem with the titles is that FIDE devalued them many years ago by awarding them for high percentage performances against players of unknown strength in its own events, usually Olympiads.

A couple of the better known examples
http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=147683L
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=10700102

http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=180278B
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=9100121

Wow, foreign FMs living in England are a valuable commodity for all-play-all tournaments

Mark Pagden is Michael. Clare Whitehead is Molyneaux via Pickard. Helen Granat is Frostick. Suzanne Wood is Suzzane Wood. Toni Binns (BCM 02/12, p.94-5) is Halliwell, Keith Fuller was American. Nick Down was Leigh Strange. Heaven knows what happened to Louis De Veauce, though Peter Morrish did ... and Alison Povall? That must go back to the ark.

Does anyone know where Phil Brooks is these days?

405540 Brooks, Phil J 2230

He was a team-mate of mine in the 1990's.

Anybody know where Phil Neatherway is? We have an answer to his question.

Kevin Thurlow wrote:I don't think Andy Hammond is playing much (if at all). Last time I spoke to him, (about a year ago) he said he might give up. He might also have raised FIDE's ire by playing in Stan Vaughan's "World Championship". FIDE told Aronian he could not accept an invitation to try to take Vaughan's world title off him!

http://www.stanvaughan.com/aboutstan.shtml tells us what our hero is doing now...

The question is - can someone who is no longer recognised by FIDE apply for the title he was entitled to when he was rated?

Hello Chess lovers! Hammondo is back from the wildeness, so I thought I would update you on some conversation about myself!

I went through a patch of disinterest with chess, as probably most of us have done in the past, due to other priorities and because I was playing more s**t than normal! I quit chess for a 18 months, during which time I requested that FIDE take my name of the FIDE rating list....so no I wasn't banned by FIDE for playing in Stan Vaughans tournament back in 2009 when I was living in Las Vegas for 3 years. Plus my K factor is rubbish, so better to try and start again...no?

I am back playing again and am aiming to get to 220 ECF minimum as finally putting some effort into my game. Not sure about heading towards a title, as that requires playing in specific tournaments or travelling, which is beyond my costs, but shouldn't be too difficult to get to 220 (just requires beating 170 bunnies anyhow....(joke!))

However, perhaps Kevin or Lawrence can let me know if I do qualify for a title of some kind and what the requirements (and cost) would be...might help for coaching purposes.

Regards and please message me about any chess matter, including Stan Vaughan who I knew for a couple of years.

Hammondo

Andrew Hammond wrote:However, perhaps Kevin or Lawrence can let me know if I do qualify for a title of some kind and what the requirements (and cost) would be...might help for coaching purposes.

Regards and please message me about any chess matter, including Stan Vaughan who I knew for a couple of years.

Hammondo

Welcome back!

I am intrigued as to what happens next time you play a rated game. If your old rating reappears then I'd know what your rating is and if you qualify for any title eg CM 2200 FM 2300. It's not too late to target IM norms though as was shown in recent weeks with John Pigott beating Shirov to get his final norm 19 years after his second one.