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With an estimated rating of 848, Riley plays at an improving-beginner level: he can spot a simple one-move threat when the board is calm, but pieces tend to slip away in busier positions, and he has no real opening preparation to lean on. He grew up tagging along on dolphin-survey trips as a teenager and brings the same patient listening to the board. Opponents can expect a slow, watchful game with plenty of small mistakes on both sides, and the occasional sharp little tactic when Riley happens to pick up the signal in time.","22","bourke","Australia","au","5f3c765a51776fb99af9e9316a9f41751c961df318439e94e3402115d748914c","2026-07-06",848,"json",[15,18,21],{"question":16,"answer":17},"What rating is Riley?","Riley has an estimated rating of 848, which puts him in the improving-beginner range. He can recognise simple one-move tactics but still drops pieces in messy positions and has no real opening knowledge to fall back on.",{"question":19,"answer":20},"What opening does Riley play?","Riley has no fixed repertoire on file. At his level he has not studied opening theory, so he tends to develop pieces by feel and reach a wide variety of middlegame structures depending on what his opponent plays.",{"question":22,"answer":23},"Is Riley a fair challenge for casual club players?","For a typical casual club player rated 1200 or above, Riley will feel quite easy, since he regularly hangs pieces in complicated positions. He is a much better match for newer players still learning basic tactics, or for stronger players wanting a calm warm-up game.","If you sit quiet long enough, the river tells you what's coming.","male","G'day. Riley here, just off the dinghy. Reckon we'll have a quiet game, eh? I'll be listening for your moves the same way I listen for the pod, picking up whatever signal comes through. Fair warning though, I miss a fair bit. Still learning the channels.","Riley grew up in a riverside suburb of Perth and started tagging along on dolphin-survey trips as a teenager, headphones glued to his ears. These days he spends most mornings on a small research dinghy on the Swan, logging the clicks and whistles of the resident bottlenose pod for a local marine team. Chess gives him something to do between recordings — same patience, same listening for the signal underneath everything else.",false,"2026-05-08T00:00:00.000Z","A tiny smooth river-pebble he found wedged in the hydrophone case on his very first survey morning — keeps it in his hoodie pocket whenever he's recording.",{},"Riley Bourke","Perth Swan River dolphin hydrophone listener",{"solid_sharp":35,"unprepared_theoretical":35},0,null,{"defensive_aggressive":38,"simplifying_complicating":39,"category":40},-0.95,0.95,2,"Riley plays a heavily defensive, cautious game, almost always reacting rather than initiating. He strongly prefers to keep tension on the board rather than trade pieces off, which often leaves cluttered positions he then struggles to read accurately. He has no settled opening repertoire and tends to drift into whatever shape the position takes, relying on patience and instinct rather than any worked-out plan or theoretical knowledge.",[43,46,48,50,53,55,58,61,64,67,70,73,76,79,81,84,86,89,92,95,98,101],{"rating":44,"msSinceEpoch":45},847,1778280550177,{"rating":44,"msSinceEpoch":47},1778426460835,{"rating":44,"msSinceEpoch":49},1778439317580,{"rating":51,"msSinceEpoch":52},837,1778450566898,{"rating":51,"msSinceEpoch":54},1778541603188,{"rating":56,"msSinceEpoch":57},828,1778620606877,{"rating":59,"msSinceEpoch":60},826,1778649737446,{"rating":62,"msSinceEpoch":63},818,1778800695480,{"rating":65,"msSinceEpoch":66},811,1778867794597,{"rating":68,"msSinceEpoch":69},823,1778946279472,{"rating":71,"msSinceEpoch":72},813,1778972358887,{"rating":74,"msSinceEpoch":75},822,1778975290269,{"rating":77,"msSinceEpoch":78},820,1779019422892,{"rating":77,"msSinceEpoch":80},1779046492660,{"rating":82,"msSinceEpoch":83},833,1779235802922,{"rating":56,"msSinceEpoch":85},1779249630397,{"rating":87,"msSinceEpoch":88},821,1779318077385,{"rating":90,"msSinceEpoch":91},839,1779342302578,{"rating":93,"msSinceEpoch":94},857,1779347891744,{"rating":96,"msSinceEpoch":97},855,1779350307841,{"rating":99,"msSinceEpoch":100},843,1779378758386,{"rating":102,"msSinceEpoch":103},854,1779379505492,"Riley",{"sameStyle":106,"different":125},[107,113,119],{"botId":108,"name":109,"elo":110,"country":111,"countryCode":112,"category":40},"m_3_b","Palesa Mokoena",830,"Lesotho","ls",{"botId":114,"name":115,"elo":116,"country":117,"countryCode":118,"category":40},"canul","Itzel Canul",888,"Mexico","mx",{"botId":120,"name":121,"elo":122,"country":123,"countryCode":124,"category":40},"rosri","Matheus do Rosário",808,"Brazil","br",[126,133],{"botId":127,"name":128,"elo":129,"country":130,"countryCode":131,"category":132},"tang","Tang Yuxi",845,"China","cn",3,{"botId":134,"name":135,"elo":96,"country":136,"countryCode":137,"category":138},"wheel","Marcus Wheeler","USA","us",5,"bots/bourke","Riley suits players rated roughly 700 to 1000 who want a relaxed, evenly matched game against a fellow beginner. Because he avoids trades and lets positions stay messy, he is good practice for anyone learning to convert a small material advantage through complications, or for players who want to work on punishing passive defence and slow development without facing sharp opening preparation in return.","qipGZwLw2JQnTD98AK2F7OKcM-AnJzCCR0MFWLLFh2M",1784583534804]