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Another successful UK FIDE Chess tournament in the bag!  We saw plenty of dedicated Chess players attend to improve their FIDE and ECF rating playing over the board chess.

Under 2400 -

1st - £150 + 2nd £75

3 Way Tie [4.0/5] (£75 ea)

- Stanley Badacsonyi

- Kajus Mikalajunas

- Matthew Dignam

Under 2000 -

1st - Sia Kam Wa 5/5 £150 / 2nd £75 Marc Obi Okwose 4/5 / Rating Prize £80 Kanishk Michael Walia 3/5

Under 1700 -

1st -Kirk Harrison 5/5 £120 / 2nd - Neil Homer 4.5/5 - £60 / Rating prize £60 Hector Canovas 3/5

Other prizes - Best performing female across all sections (Points scored) £60 Rose Burgess 3.5/5

Another great tournament held at the University Of Northampton saw our first GM attendee Mr Keith Arkell.

Also, we had several Live DGT boards recording some interesting games!

See DGT games here

Under 2400 -

1st - £150 Matthew Dignam 4.5/5, 2nd - £75 GM Keith Arkell 4/5

Rating Prize £80 for the best player rated Under 1900 FIDE, shared Dylan Wastney and Ethan Pang 3.5/5 £40 each

Under 1900 -

1st - £56.25 each = Mihir Sharma, Kevin Williamson, Jacob Liu and Piers Hinds 4/5

Rating Prize £80 Kasprowicz, Peter, 3.5/5

Under 1500 -

1st - £120 Tara Tamilselvan 4.5/5 plus best performing female (Points scored) £60, 2nd - £60 George Calvert, Shivam Sahoo, James Burgess 3.5/5 £20.00 each

Rating prize £60 Ou, Siyao 3/6

With 100 entrants we reached the maximum capacity for our venue. 

The Hind Hotel, being in the middle of Wellingborough Town centre, offered an interesting environment for a weekend of chess! 

Thanks to Chess england and Chessville for assisting with this event.
Thanks to Brendan O'Gorman for taking photos - https://brendanogorman.smugmug.com/Chess/2023/East-Midlands-Chess-Congress-August-2023/

Under 2400

1st £200 + 2nd £75 Tied [4.0/5] 

- Oscar Pollack (£92)

- John M Potter (£92)

- Tashika Arora (£92)

Rating prize of £80 Rami Talab [3.5/5]

(Best female performance across all sections - £80)

 Under 1900

Tie First Place (1st £150 + 2nd £75) [4.0 / 5]

- Kevin Williamson (£112.50)

- Brendan O'Gorman (£112.50)

Rating prize of £80.00 Ioan Strugar [3.0/5]

U1700 

First prize is £120.00 Freddie Sugden [4.5/5]

second prize £60.00 Split 4 Ways (£15.00) [4.0/5]

- Michael Owen

- Neil S Homer

- Mihir Sharma

- Michael Kanishk Walia

Rating Prize of £40.00 Kanvansh Dhingra [4.0/5]

Under 1000 ECF Only Rated section:

First Prize £50.00 Zac Paintin [5.0/5]

Second Prize Tied £25.00 [3.0/5]

- Hannah Walker (£12.50)

- William Calvert (£12.50)

With just under 100 entrants it was a busy day at the University! Lovely weather outside made it an enjoyable day inside and out!
Open

1st [£150] - Mykhailo Podolskyi 5.5/6

Tied 2nd [£75 + £40 = £115. £115/2 = £57.5 each] - FM Yichen Han, & FM Gary Kenworthy 5/6

Major under 1900

Tied 1st [£120 + £60 = £180. £180/2 = £90 each] - Daniel Storey, & Paul Walton 5/6

Tied 3rd [£30/2 = £15 each] - Nicholas Lees, & Nigel P Young 4.5/6

Rating Category Prize - 1 Year AimChess premium membership - Mikhail Ig Korzun 4/6

Minor Under 1500 

1st - Levi Weston 5.5/6 £120, 2nd - £45 each Tarun Lilley and Ioan-Euzeb Strugar 4.5/6 plus a rating prize to William Bruce 4/6

Improvers under 1100 

1st - Tara Tamilselvan, Jeon Palmer and James Burgess 5/6 £32.00 each, Rating Prize to Miheli Gunarathne with 4/6

Open , Major and Minor 

1st. (£150) - ACM Alex Royle 5.5/6

1st. (£120) - Mohammad Mozzafari 6/6

1st (120) - Arrow Morris 6/6

Joint 2nd. (£57.5 each) 

- FM Gary Kenworthy

- Hugh W Murphy 4.5/6

2nd. (£60) - Rida Ruqayyah 5/6

Joint 2nd (£45 each)

- Gagan, B R

- Aashita Roychowdhury 

Tied 3rd. (£10 each) - Daniel Storey, Alexander Chmelev, & Kevin Ellis 4.5/6

Rating Prizes (Aimchess 1 year premium membership)

Joseph Morrison 4/6

Luis Viera 4/6

Mikhail Korzun 4.5/6

1st (£150) - Zakarian David 5.5/6

1st (£120) - Nawalaniec Adam  5.5 points

1st (£120) - Nawalaniec Leszek 6/6

2nd (£75) - Murphy Hugh W 4.5/6

2nd (£60) - Harvey Craddock-Monroe 5 points

2nd (£45 each) - Lad Vijay and Marimuthu Anbalagan both 4.5/6

3rd (£13.33 each) - Pein Jonathan / Kenworthy Gary / Zakarian Dimitrios Levon 4/6

3rd (Split £10 each) - Evan Lewis, Nigel P Young, & Antonio Mura 4.5 points