Golders Green Rapidplay, Saturday 11th March 2023

Thanks to Harshita for the lovely photograph!  Rob, Jo and Lance ran today's tournament and over 100 players took part over 3 sections.

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Open Prizes

Tied 1st + 2nd [£150/2 = £75 each] - GM Eldar Gasanov, & GM Alexander Cherniaev 5/6

Rating [£50/2 = £25 each] - Sebastiano Rebonato Scott, & Zain Patel

Major Prizes

1st. £100 + 2nd. £50 *Tied*

- Arnav Kumar [5.0 / 6] (£75)

- B R Gagan [5.0 / 6] (£75)

Rating. £50 - 3 Way Split (16.67 each) [3.5/6] Armaan Nilim, Callum Hill, Luke Pakenham

Minor Prizes

1st = Dave Bluestone = £60

2nd = John McNamara = £30

Rating = U1200 = Damian Anthony Wong & Kestutis Gudovijus = £15 each

Take a look at https://www.twitch.tv/openshowstv which is Kestutis's excellent stream!


Thanks to Jo Wildman, Lance Leslie-Smith, Reza and Rob Hammond for running the tournament at Golders Green this weekend.

Check out the calendar and free newsletter at www.chessengland.com.  We are doing another rapid at the excellent Kensington Holiday Inn Hotel on the 19th March - https://chesscircuit.substack.com/p/kensington-fide-rapid-chess - and Mill Hill on 25 and 26 February - https://www.chessville.co.uk/coming-up/ with all games rated by FIDE and the ECF.  

There is also a Chess960 rapid tournament at Mill Hill on Saturday 25th February!  I also run twice-monthly tournaments at The Clissold Arms in Muswell Hill (East Finchley) on Tuesdays, and they often get 30 entrants.

Prizes - Open

1st Peter Finn [5.5/6] £100

2nd Tied [5.0/6] (£50 = £25 each) - Peter G Large and Connor Clarke

Rating (Under 1750 FIDE) £50 -  Andrew Hayler [4.0/6]

Prizes - Major

1st = Yash Mahajan and Alexander Funk = £75 each

Rating prize = Killian Teschke-Panah = £50

Prizes - Minor

1st Bogerd, Ethan [6/6] £60

2nd Tied [5.0/6] (£30 = £15 each), Clarke, Antoine and  Gagan, B R

Rating [4.5/6] £30 to Puri, Rian M


Happy New Year!  We have kick-started the year at Golders Green with our usual rapidplay.  Thanks to Jo Wildman, Lance Leslie-Smith and Satish Gaekwad for running the tournament.

If you are looking for a tournament to play in over the next few weekends, check out the calendar and free newsletter at www.chessengland.com.  We are doing a rapid at the excellent Kensington Holiday Inn Hotel on the 15th Januaryhttps://chesscircuit.substack.com/p/kensington-fide-rapid-chessand Mill Hill on 21 and 22 January - https://www.chessville.co.uk/coming-up/ with all games rated by FIDE and the ECF.  I also run twice-monthly tournaments at The Clissold Arms in Muswell Hill (East Finchley) on Tuesdays, and they often get 30 entrants.

Prizes - Open

Tied 1st [£75 each] - FM Jovica Radovanovic, & Abhinav Reddy Bathula 5/6

Rating Category Prize £50 - Kajus Mikalajunas 4.5/6

Prizes - Major

1st [£100] - Shrihan Koppuravuri 5/6

Tied 2nd [£50/3 = £17 each] - Salvatore Pepe, Prabodha Ariyaratne, & Arnav Kumar 4.5/6

Rating Category Prize [£50] - Michael Rae 3.5/6

Prizes - Minor

1st Prize - £60 to Daniel Dupuis (5.5 points) pictured above clutching a copy of Battle of Endgames by Ray Cannon!)

2nd Prize - £15 each to Christopher Adams & Arjun Kartik Bharadwaj (5 points each)

Rating Category Prize - £30 to Robert Raguzin (5 points)

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