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Player:
(Eg:
Carlsen,Magnus
)
Costigan, Richard
FIDE
:
FIDE Card
Title
:
IM
Years
:
1976-2017
Number of games
:
134
Number of wins
:
31
Number of draws
:
51
Number of losses
:
52
White score
:
28/65 (43.08% - Average Elo: 2358.47)
Black score
:
28½/69 (41.3% - Average Elo: 2331.66)
Rating progression
Games
White wins
White draws
White losses
Black wins
Black draws
Black losses
Top wins
Costigan, Richard (2312) - Friedel, Joshua E (2453), USA tt, ICC INT (D00) - 2005
Costigan, Richard (2312) - Winer, Steven (2401), USA tt, ICC INT (B40) - 2006
Costigan, Richard (2295) - Arakhamia Grant, Ketevan (2400), World op 23rd, Philadelphia (A48) - 1995
Charbonneau, Pascal (2501) - Costigan, Richard (2312), USA tt, ICC INT (C91) - 2006
Bisguier, Arthur Bernard (2440) - Costigan, Richard, World op, New York (B21) - 1976
Zaikov, Oleg (2394) - Costigan, Richard (2312), USA tt, ICC INT (D18) - 2006
Costigan, Richard - ? (61)
Bonin, Jay R (½/2)
Donaldson, John W (½/2)
Friedel, Joshua E (1½/2)
Spraggett, Kevin (0/2)
Agner, Carlito (1/1)
Arakhamia Grant, Ketevan (1/1)
Arnett, David A (1/1)
Ashley, Maurice (0/1)
Baquero, Luis A (0/1)
Basallo, Nirio (1/1)
Bayaraa, Zorigt (½/1)
Behrhorst, Frank (0/1)
Biyiasas, Peter (0/1)
Bozkurt, Ilker Nadir (½/1)
Costigan, Thomas J (½/1)
Day, Lawrence A (1/1)
Enkhbat, Tegshsuren (0/1)
Esserman, Marc (0/1)
Fedorowicz, John P (½/1)
Feng, Roland (½/1)
Formanek, Edward W (0/1)
Foygel, Igor (0/1)
Friedman, Aviv (½/1)
Gagunashvili, Merab (0/1)
Gareyev, Timur (0/1)
Goldenberg, Ryan D (1/1)
Goregliad, Sergei (1/1)
Hess, Robert L (½/1)
Hjartarson, Johann (0/1)
Ippolito, Dean (½/1)
Jacobson, Aaron (½/1)
Jones, Craig W (½/1)
Katz, Alexander R (½/1)
Kaufman, Larry C (0/1)
King, Alexander B (½/1)
Klein, Lawrence (½/1)
Lein, Anatoly (0/1)
Leow, Leslie M (½/1)
Mac Intyre, Paul (1/1)
McCambridge, Vincent (0/1)
Meyer, Eugene B (0/1)
Moreno, Alejandro (1/1)
Nemcova, Katerina (1/1)
Nickoloff, Bryon (½/1)
Panchanathan, Magesh Chandran (½/1)
Popovych, Orest (1/1)
Rind, Bruce (0/1)
Riordan, Charles (½/1)
Rogers, Norman (1/1)
Rohde, Michael A (0/1)
Selzler, Ricky (1/1)
Shahade, Michael (½/1)
Shankland, Samuel L (0/1)
Shen, Victor C (0/1)
Stone, Raymond (0/1)
Whitehead, Paul A (½/1)
Williams, Justus D (½/1)
Winer, Steven (1/1)
Zaremba, Andrie (½/1)
Zimmer, Ralph (0/1)
Zlotnikov, Mikhail (1/1)
? - Costigan, Richard (64)
Dehmelt, Karl (1/2)
Kaufman, Raymond (1½/2)
Seirawan, Yasser (0/2)
Shmeliov, Denis (½/2)
Zimmer, Ralph (1/2)
Alzate, Dario (½/1)
Bisguier, Arthur Bernard (1/1)
Bonin, Jay R (0/1)
Braylovsky, Gregory (0/1)
Browne, Walter Shawn (0/1)
Byrne, Robert Eugene (½/1)
Charbonneau, Pascal (1/1)
Checa, Nicolas D (½/1)
Critelli, James M (1/1)
Dauvergne, Peter (½/1)
Donaldson, John W (½/1)
Ehlvest, Jaan (0/1)
Enkhbat, Tegshsuren (0/1)
Fedorowicz, John P (½/1)
Felecan, Florin (½/1)
Feng, Roland (0/1)
Feuerstein, Arthur William (1/1)
Finn, Sean N (1/1)
Frias Pablaza, Victor J (½/1)
Garcia, Gildardo (0/1)
Gauri, Shankar (½/1)
Gurevich, Ilya (0/1)
Hodgson, Julian M (0/1)
Hoekstra, Matthew (1/1)
Ibragimov, Ildar (½/1)
Kaufman, Larry C (½/1)
Klein, Lawrence (½/1)
Krush, Irina (½/1)
Kumar, Aravind (0/1)
Lein, Anatoly (0/1)
Lenderman, Aleksandr (0/1)
Leow, Leslie M (½/1)
Lugo, Blas (½/1)
Nerney, John (1/1)
Norowitz, Yaacov (½/1)
Pajak, John T (0/1)
Pelts, Roman (½/1)
Regan, Kenneth (0/1)
Remlinger, Larry (1/1)
Schroer, Jonathan (1/1)
Selzler, Ricky (½/1)
Shahade, Michael (0/1)
Smith, Shaun (½/1)
Stone, Raymond (½/1)
Stopa, Jacek (0/1)
Studen, Damir (½/1)
Szmetan, Ricardo (0/1)
Thomas, Ian L (0/1)
Tisdall, Jonathan D (0/1)
Troff, Kayden W (0/1)
Vaidya, Atulya (½/1)
Wheeler, Cameron (½/1)
Whitehead, Jay E (1/1)
Wilder, Michael (0/1)
Witt, Laszlo (½/1)
Wygle, Steve (1/1)
Yedidia, Jonathan (½/1)
Zaikov, Oleg (1/1)
Zaremba, Andrie (0/1)
Openings played as White (37)
A48 King's Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6)
Average Elo:
2441.25
Result:
3/6 = 50%
D03 Torre Attack (Tartakower Variation) (1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg5)
Average Elo:
2301.4
Result:
3/6 = 50%
A46 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3)
Average Elo:
2386.6
Result:
1½/5 = 30%
A47 Queen's Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b6)
Average Elo:
2356.8
Result:
3/5 = 60%
B40 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6)
Average Elo:
2415.25
Result:
2½/4 = 62.5%
D02 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 d5 2.Nf3)
Average Elo:
2361.67
Result:
0/3 = 0%
A43 Old Benoni (1.d4 c5)
Average Elo:
2364
Result:
½/2 = 25%
B50 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6)
Average Elo:
2238
Result:
1/2 = 50%
B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+)
Average Elo:
2445
Result:
½/2 = 25%
D00 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 d5)
Average Elo:
2384
Result:
2/2 = 100%
B08 Pirc, Classical (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3)
Average Elo:
2315.5
Result:
1/2 = 50%
B07 Pirc (1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
B02 Alekhine's Defense (1.e4 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2335
Result:
0/1 = 0%
C50 Giuoco Piano (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5)
Average Elo:
2407
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A30 English, Symmetrical (1.c4 c5)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B12 Caro-Kann Defense (1.e4 c6 2.d4)
Average Elo:
2388
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A80 Dutch (1.d4 f5)
Average Elo:
2295
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A49 King's Indian, Fianchetto without c4 (1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3)
Average Elo:
2469
Result:
0/1 = 0%
C49 Four Knights (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5 Bb4)
Average Elo:
2480
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D05 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 e6)
Average Elo:
2617
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B20 Sicilian (1.e4 c5)
Average Elo:
2282
Result:
1/1 = 100%
C24 Bishop's Opening (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2439
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B18 Caro-Kann, Classical (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Bf5)
Average Elo:
1936
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D74 Neo-Grunfeld, 6.cd Nxd5, 7.O-O (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.O-O)
Average Elo:
2200
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D12 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 Bf5)
Average Elo:
2249
Result:
½/1 = 50%
C06 French, Tarrasch (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4)
Average Elo:
2365
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B30 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6)
Average Elo:
2515
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A82 Dutch, Staunton Gambit (1.d4 f5 2.e4)
Average Elo:
2440
Result:
½/1 = 50%
C53 Giuoco Piano (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3)
Average Elo:
2262
Result:
1/1 = 100%
C54 Giuoco Piano (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d4 exd4 6.cxd4)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
0/1 = 0%
D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.cxd5 cxd5)
Average Elo:
2375
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B25 Sicilian, Closed (1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6)
Average Elo:
2380
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A06 Reti Opening (1.Nf3 d5)
Average Elo:
2222
Result:
1/1 = 100%
C00 French Defense (1.e4 e6)
Average Elo:
2368
Result:
0/1 = 0%
C02 French, Advance (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B27 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3)
Average Elo:
2200
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B14 Caro-Kann, Panov-Botvinnik Attack (1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6)
Average Elo:
2339
Result:
½/1 = 50%
Openings played as Black (38)
A55 Old Indian, Main line (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.e4)
Average Elo:
2374
Result:
3/7 = 42.86%
B01 Scandinavian (1.e4 d5)
Average Elo:
2301.86
Result:
4½/7 = 64.29%
A44 Old Benoni Defense (1.d4 c5 2.d5 e5)
Average Elo:
2519.25
Result:
½/4 = 12.5%
D17 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5)
Average Elo:
2199
Result:
1/3 = 33.33%
A53 Old Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6)
Average Elo:
2355
Result:
½/3 = 16.67%
C98 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 d6 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 Nc6)
Average Elo:
2434.67
Result:
½/3 = 16.67%
D94 Grunfeld (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.e3)
Average Elo:
2204.33
Result:
1/3 = 33.33%
B22 Sicilian, Alapin (1.e4 c5 2.c3)
Average Elo:
2342.5
Result:
0/2 = 0%
A16 English (1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3)
Average Elo:
2179
Result:
½/2 = 25%
B33 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4)
Average Elo:
2265
Result:
1/2 = 50%
D18 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Dutch (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.e3)
Average Elo:
2379.5
Result:
1½/2 = 75%
D10 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6)
Average Elo:
2278.5
Result:
2/2 = 100%
D00 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 d5)
Average Elo:
2427.5
Result:
0/2 = 0%
D25 Queen's Gambit Accepted (1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3)
Average Elo:
2193
Result:
2/2 = 100%
D13 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, Exchange Variation (1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.cxd5 cxd5)
Average Elo:
2221.5
Result:
1/2 = 50%
B21 Sicilian, 2.f4 and 2.d4 (1.e4 c5 2.f4)
Average Elo:
2440
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A28 English (1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2250
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
1/1 = 100%
D86 Grunfeld, Exchange (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.e4 Nxc3 6.bxc3 Bg7 7.Bc4)
Average Elo:
2375
Result:
0/1 = 0%
B30 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6)
Average Elo:
2405
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+)
Average Elo:
2355
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A05 Reti Opening (1.Nf3 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2340
Result:
½/1 = 50%
C86 Ruy Lopez, Worrall Attack (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Qe2)
Average Elo:
2310
Result:
0/1 = 0%
C99 Ruy Lopez, Closed, Chigorin, 12...cd (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 d6 9.h3 Na5 10.Bc2 c5 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 cxd4 13.cxd4)
Average Elo:
2430
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A45 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2315
Result:
0/1 = 0%
C90 Ruy Lopez, Closed (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 d6)
Average Elo:
2445
Result:
½/1 = 50%
C31 King's Gambit Declined, Falkbeer Counter Gambit (1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5)
Average Elo:
2365
Result:
½/1 = 50%
C91 Ruy Lopez, Closed (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 d6 9.d4)
Average Elo:
2501
Result:
1/1 = 100%
A00 Uncommon Opening (1.g4, a3, h3, etc.)
Average Elo:
2400
Result:
0/1 = 0%
C55 Two Knights Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2393
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D96 Grunfeld, Russian Variation (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Qb3)
Average Elo:
2439
Result:
0/1 = 0%
A59 Benko Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 Bxa6 6.Nc3 d6 7.e4)
Average Elo:
2349
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D04 Queen's Pawn Game (1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3)
Average Elo:
0
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D70 Neo-Grunfeld Defense (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 d5)
Average Elo:
2222
Result:
½/1 = 50%
C47 Four Knights (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6)
Average Elo:
2270
Result:
½/1 = 50%
D91 Grunfeld, 5.Bg5 (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.Bg5)
Average Elo:
2006
Result:
½/1 = 50%
B44 Sicilian (1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6)
Average Elo:
2264
Result:
½/1 = 50%
A57 Benko Gambit (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5)
Average Elo:
2182
Result:
0/1 = 0%