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Nikolaev, Daniil
🇮🇪FIDE 24198471· Male· Ireland· Born in 2003
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Daniil Nikolaev, a 23-year-old Irish player, is rated 1920 — his current career high. He is progressing steadily with +21 Elo over the past 12 months. 25 rated games in the past year (≈13/year long-term). Recent standard appearances include The National Club championship 2026, March quad C, and LCU Heidenfeld Trophy 2025-2026 Rounds 9-10. Also played 3 rapid (including Gens Una Sumus - Rapid Tournament) and 1 blitz events (including The ICU October Blitz 2025) recently. He had 2 career breaks: 24 months (2016–2019) and 70 months (2019–2025, COVID-19 included).
Competes for Ireland since Jan 2026. At junior level, he reached World #55 in U10 and #13, #5, #5 and #2 nationally in U18, U16, U14 and U12.
Current rating
1920
Standard
Rpd1877·Blz1793
All-time high
1920
at best
Jun 2026 · age 23
Jun 2026 · age 23
Activity
8
games / yr avg. · ≈1/mo
25 past 12 mo · ≈2/mo
classical only
Occasional
classical only
Occasional
Signature stat
#43,243
#43,243 · players worldwide · of 218,279
Career timeline
17 entries2026
43rd Irish 20-35 player
at age 23 · rated 1920
Jun 2026
All-time peak 1920
at age 23
Jun 2026
Switched federation: RUS → IRL
at age 23
Jan 2026
2022
K-factor lowered to 20
at age 19
Jan 2022
2020
13th Irish U18 player
at age 17 · rated 1832
Oct 2020
2019
Inactive for 70 months
paused at 1832 → returned at 1899
Dec 2019
Standard rating history
Peak
FIDE title
Threshold
First rated
Inactive period
COVID-19
FIDE recal.
Activity & highlights
Evolution
+21
1899 → 1920
Tournaments
12
25 games
Score
15/ 2560.0%
13W4D8L
Top 3 wins
Top 2 losses
Last 12 months — tournaments
12 events| Event | Date | Score | Rank | Perf | Δ Elo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Team | May 2026 | 1/1 | #2 | — | +5.4 |
Team | May 2026 | 1/1 | #14 | — | +4.4 |
Team | Apr 2026 | 2.5/5 | #44 | — | -3.8 |
Round-Robin | Apr 2026 | 1.5/3 | #3 | 1890 | -1.4 |
Team | Mar 2026 | 1.5/2 | #21 | — | +9.0 |
Team | Feb 2026 | 1/2 | #38 | — | +3.0 |
Team | Nov 2025 | 1/1 | #28 | — | +11.4 |
Team | Nov 2025 | 1/1 | #55 | — | +12.0 |
Team | Nov 2025 | 0.5/2 | #75 | — | -14.4 |
Team | Nov 2025 | 1/2 | #55 | — | +5.2 |
Rankings
/
Ireland
#146
out of 1,228 players
Europe
#31,918
in continent
World
#43,242
out of 400,000+
National ranking
Europe & World
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