BFA Player Ratings update

This is a particularly significant update at the very top of the game. Six players have reached Master, taking the total number of BFA-rated Masters from just eight to 14.

To put that into perspective, the BFA ratings list contains 1,830 players. Only 14 are Masters, while just 87—less than 5%—are rated Pro or above.

𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗠𝗔𝗦𝗧𝗘𝗥

Uzzy Ahmad (Manchester)

Salvatore Bruccoleri (Boston Manor)

Artur Drozd (Spitalfields)

Francisco Filipe (Holloway)

Hocine Mohammedi (Holloway)

Balazs Preiner (Boston Manor)

𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗥𝗢

Nicholas Day (Holloway)

Chiara Liardo (Boston Manor)

Otto Necas (Spitalfields)

Yerken Tussupbekov (Meta)

𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗘𝗠𝗜-𝗣𝗥𝗢

Christian Cave (Barnet)

Wolter Hellmund Vega (Spitalfields)

Muhammad Ilyas (Camden)

Levente Muschitz (Bristol)

Linpeng Zhang (Meta)

𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗠𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗧𝗢 𝗔𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗨𝗥

Victor Angafaa (Plymouth)

Patrick Bradley (Unaffiliated)

Zakaria Chouayt (Edinburgh)

Keith Clark (Plymouth)

Michael Deane (Unaffiliated)

Stephen Deane (Unaffiliated)

Ishwar Jha (Meta)

Charles Keepax (Edinburgh)

Jamie Lee (Plymouth)

Louis Man (Edinburgh)

Terry Manning (Edinburgh)

Umar Mustafa (Unaffiliated)

Simone Narcisco (Edinburgh)

Martin Rattle (Plymouth)

Imran Sherazi (Edinburgh)

Daniel Taccola (Meta)

Graeme Towers (Edinburgh)

Following this update, the BFA ratings list now includes:

14 Masters

73 Pros

190 Semi-Pros

405 Amateurs

1,148 Beginners

A huge congratulations to everyone taking the next step. Promotion is recognition of the progress you’ve made—but it also brings a new challenge. Time to prove yourselves at the next level!