English Chess Championships 2026 · Abierto

English Chess Championships 2026 — Abierto Round 5

Best game of the round

Victor G L Jones (2175) vs Mahin Rughani (2021), 0-1, Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation, Short Variation — replay the game

Critical game

IM Brandon G I Clarke (2448) vs IM Jonah B Willow (2391), 0-1, French Defense: Advance Variation, Paulsen Attack — replay the game

Biggest upset

Taran Patel (1623) vs Charles Pickard (2036), 1-0, Sicilian Defense: Delayed Alapin Variation, with e6 — replay the game

Games

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

Standings after round 5

1. Harvey, Marcus R
2. Willow, Jonah B
3. Maroroa Jones, Gawain C B
4. Ghasi, Ameet K
5. Roberson, Peter T
6. Gormally, Daniel W
7. Clarke, Brandon G I
8. Balaji, Aaravamudhan
9. Cancedda-Dupuis, Livio
10. Jakhria, Kushal

Round 4 · Round 6