English Chess Championships 2026 · Abierto
English Chess Championships 2026 — Abierto Round 4
Best game of the round
IM Marcus R Harvey (2445) vs IM Jonah B Willow (2391), 0-1, Zukertort Opening: Nimzo-Larsen Variation — replay the game
Critical game
GM Neil McDonald (2388) vs GM Michael Adams (2597), 0-1, Ruy Lopez: Morphy Defense, Anderssen Variation — replay the game
Biggest upset
CM Kushal Jakhria (2135) vs GM Daniel W Gormally (2498), 1-0, Neo-Grünfeld Defense: Classical Variation, Modern Defense — replay the game
Games
- GM Gawain C B Maroroa Jones (2616) – IM Alan B Merry (2401) 1-0 game
- GM Neil McDonald (2388) – GM Michael Adams (2597) 0-1 game
- GM Daniel W Gormally (2498) – IM Brandon G I Clarke (2448) 1/2-1/2 game
- IM Marcus R Harvey (2445) – FM Stanley Badacsonyi (2422) 1/2-1/2 game
- FM Jude Shearsby (2231) – IM Peter T Roberson (2306) 1/2-1/2 game
- GM Ameet K Ghasi (2488) – FM Theo Khoury (2170) 1/2-1/2 game
- IM Aaravamudhan Balaji (2386) – Cian Ward (2095) 1-0 game
- Tristan A Cox (2076) – Jacob Connor Boswell (2171) 1/2-1/2 game
- FM Adithya Vaidyanathan (2240) – Matthew McLachlan (2015) 1/2-1/2 game
- Balahari Bharat Kumar (2071) – Owen Crawford (2230) 0-1 game
- IM Jonah B Willow (2391) – GM Mark L Hebden (2343) 1-0 game
- James Golding (2169) – IM Graeme N Buckley (2276) 0-1 game
- FM Qixiang Han (2239) – CM Kushal Jakhria (2135) 1-0 game
- Martin P Burrows (2138) – CM Lion Lebedev (2216) 1-0 game
- CM Peter Finn (2047) – CM Ollie Willson (2013) 1-0 game
- CM George Zhao (2125) – Livio Cancedda-Dupuis (2314) 1/2-1/2 game
- FM John R Richardson (2202) – Dylan Wastney (2004) 1-0 game
- Alexandr Pereslavtsev (2186) – Richard Zhu (2078) 1-0 game
- Colin Davis (2088) – Jai Kothari (2195) 0-1 game
- Callum D Brewer (2157) – Samuel Marsden (2067) 1-0 game
- Aden Kennedy (2020) – Remy Rushbrooke (2138) 1-0 game
- Fahim Nasiri (1965) – NM Oleg Verbytski (2190) 0-1 game
- Daniel Gomez (2085) – Senith Thenula Gunarathne (1963) 1-0 game
- Luke Anthony Honey (2039) – Aviraj Bhaduri (2037) 1-0 game
- Sebastian Mokhber-Garcia (2095) – CM Avyukt Dasgupta (2149) 1-0 game
- Qixuan Han (1938) – Mahin Rughani (2021) 1-0 game
- Henry Brennan (2014) – Zain Patel (2124) 0-1 game
- Charles M Linford (2145) – Daniel Udovenko (2029) 1/2-1/2 game
- IM Marcus R Harvey (2445) – IM Jonah B Willow (2391) 0-1 game
- GM Gawain C B Maroroa Jones (2616) – IM Brandon G I Clarke (2448) 1-0 game
- FM Stanley Badacsonyi (2422) – GM Ameet K Ghasi (2488) 1/2-1/2 game
- CM Kushal Jakhria (2135) – GM Daniel W Gormally (2498) 1-0 game
- IM Marcus R Harvey (2445) – FM Qixiang Han (2239) 1-0 game
- Jacob Connor Boswell (2171) – Livio Cancedda-Dupuis (2314) 0-1 game
- IM Jonah B Willow (2391) – IM Aaravamudhan Balaji (2386) 0-1 game
- IM Supratit Banerjee (2375) – Luke Anthony Honey (2039) 1-0 game
- IM Peter T Roberson (2306) – CM Peter Finn (2047) 1-0 game
- FM Jude Shearsby (2231) – Richard Zhu (2078) 1-0 game
- Daniel Gomez (2085) – NM Oleg Verbytski (2190) 0-1 game
- CM Ollie Willson (2013) – FM Theo Khoury (2170) 0-1 game
- Raman Vashisht-Pigem (2145) – Advait Keerthi Kumar (2037) 1-0 game
- Zain Patel (2124) – Andrew Brocklehurst (1881) 1/2-1/2 game
- Haytham Salman (1894) – Sebastian Mokhber-Garcia (2095) 1/2-1/2 game
- Mahin Rughani (2021) – George Calvert (1678) 1/2-1/2 game
- Charles Pickard (2036) – CM George Zhao (2125) 0-1 game
- Torrey Horwood (1823) – Victor G L Jones (2175) 0-1 game
- Alexander Linton (2041) – Callum Hill (1829) 1-0 game
- Gautam Sriram (1743) – Aviraj Bhaduri (2037) 0-1 game
- Danylo Peresenchuk (1940) – Andrew R Brett (1989) 0-1 game
- Fahim Nasiri (1965) – Ben Graff (1674) 1/2-1/2 game
- Alistair R Pettey (1654) – Bruce L Baer (1953) 1-0 game
- Qixuan Han (1938) – Akintayo Akintola (1671) 1-0 game
- Kiaan Jakhria (1557) – Frederick Fairhurst (1802) 0-1 game
- Scott Borland (1873) – Sunday Chow 1-0 game
- Georgi Hristov (1612) – Taran Patel (1623) 0-1 game
- Neil Chedd (1623) – Roy Hughes (1813) 1/2-1/2 game
- Andy Neville (1644) – Robert Kane (1781) 0-1 game
- Michael R Smart (1778) – Uduak Uso-Echebiri 1-0 game
Standings after round 4
- Harvey, Marcus R
- Willow, Jonah B
- Maroroa Jones, Gawain C B
- Gormally, Daniel W
- Ghasi, Ameet K
- Clarke, Brandon G I
- Balaji, Aaravamudhan
- Roberson, Peter T
- Shearsby, Jude
- Badacsonyi, Stanley