Open Blitz August 2025

We had 24 players at our latest Open Blitz tournament including many non club members and juniors. It was played in the spacious community centre hall over 6 rounds at 5 + 3 (five minutes for each player plus three second increment per move).

There was a large variation in player strength, but as usual the Swiss pairing system does a great job of pairing people with the same (or nearly the same) points after each and every round, without playing the same person twice and giving roughly equal white and black games to each player.

In First place, the clear winner with 6/6 was club member and junior, Dildarav Lishoy Gengis Paratazham. A fantastic performance and 1.5 points clear of all the rest – well done Dildarav.

Dildarav received a new copy of a book donated by Martin called “The Immortal Game, A History of Chess” along with some old 1990s editions of Chess Magazine and another chess book donated to the club.

In Second place was also a club member and junior, Zac Welling on 4.5 points, well done Zac. Zac also choose a book and some Chess Magazines.

In equal third place all on 4 points were Blair Connell, Jon Ady, Seb Twisk, Adrian Wallace, Gautam Sriram and Mark Payne.

Congratulations to all in what was a very strong field and thanks to our ECF Arbiter Thomas West for his excellent as usual professional help.

Final cross table is below and if you click on the image, you can then get all the details, individual performance results etc from chess-results. Below that are photos of the whole playing hall.