2022 Online Grand Prix Series

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Results and Section Winners

The 2022 Online Grand Prix is now complete following the round 10 events in October. Congratulations to the category prize winners, who will be awarded ECF online trophies shortly.

ECF Online Blitz Grand Prix – Category Prize Winners

	Open	Senior (Over 50)	Women’s	Junior (U18)
1st	Michael Harris	Michael Harris	Elis Denele Dicen	Pengxiao Zhu
2nd	Chris Davison	John Sharp	Anusha Subramanian	Elis Denele Dicen
3rd	Tristan Cox	Julian Tang	Karin Bayona	Stanley Badacsonyi

	U2000	U1700	U1400	U1100
1st	Kyle Bennett	Pengxiao Zhu	Jonas Zurba	Louis Buckland
2nd	Elis Denele Dicen	Rithwik Gururaj	George Calvert	Shaivi Prasad
3rd	John Sharp	Julian Tang	Louis Buckland	Agreya Agnihotri

ECF Online Rapid Grand Prix – Category Prize Winners

	Open	Senior (Over 50)	Women’s	Junior (U18)
1st	Chris Davison	Julian Tang	Elis Denele Dicen	Elis Denele Dicen
2nd	Tristan Cox	Mark Jones	Anusha Subramanian	Eoin Moore
3rd	Elis Denele Dicen	Vincent Logan	Caroline Jane Robson	Alex Royle

	U2000	U1700	U1400	U1100
1st	Elis Denele Dicen	Supratit Banerjee	Supratit Banerjee	Neil Bates
2nd	Kyle Bennett	Anusha Subramanian	Alexander Cant	Supratit Banerjee
3rd	Eoin Moore	Pengxiao Zhu	Ishanth Reddy Thangella	Ishanth Reddy Thangella

Series Report

The ECF Online Grand Prix Series started on 2nd January 2022 and ran for 10 months.

The ECF Online Blitz and Rapid Grand Prix Series 2 events were held at 2.00pm on the first Sunday of each month (for the blitz tournaments) and the third Sunday of each month (for the rapid tournaments) from January to October 2022. The leaderboards and schedule can be found below. Email enquiries should be directed to director.homechess@englishchess.org.uk or office@englishchess.org.uk

Find the current Blitz leader boards – https://www.englishchess.org.uk/2022-online-grand-prix-series-blitz-leaderboards/

Find the current Rapid leader boards here – https://www.englishchess.org.uk/2022-online-grand-prix-series-rapid-leaderboards/

You must be a member or supporter of the ECF to enter. Entry for a single event costs £5.00, or £25.00 for a season ticket (click here to become a member)
Entry is free to titled players (i.e. holders of ECF National Master/CM/FM/WFM/IM/WIM/GM/WGM titles)

Online Blitz Grand Prix Series 2
This will take place on the first Sunday of the month with various time controls and formats as follows –

Event	Date	Style	Duration	Time	Berserk
1	02-Jan	Arena	90 mins	5+0	Off
2	06-Feb	Swiss	9 rounds	3+2	N/A
3	06-Mar	Arena	90 mins	3+0	Off
4	03-Apr	Swiss	9 rounds	5+0	N/A
5	01-May	Arena	90 mins	3+2	Off
6	05-Jun	Swiss	9 rounds	3+0	N/A
7	03-Jul	Arena	90 mins	5+0	On
8	07-Aug	Arena	90 mins	3+2	On
9	04-Sep	Arena	90 mins	3+0	On
10	02-Oct	Swiss	9 rounds	3+2	N/A

There will be trophy prizes for the top three players in each of the nine Grand Prix categories as follows – Open, Senior (Over 50), Women’s, Junior (U18), U2000, U17000, U1400, U1100. Prizes will be awarded to the highest scoring player in each category based on total cumulative points scored at the end of the events based on the player’s best six scores across all events. Detailed regulations – Online Blitz Grand Prix Regulations 2022

Online Rapid Grand Prix Series 2
Each event will start at 2.00pm on the third Sunday of every month

Event	Date	Style	Duration	Time	Berserk
1	16-Jan	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A
2	20-Feb	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A
3	20-Mar	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A
4	17-Apr	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A
5	15-May	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A
6	19-Jun	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A
7	17-Jul	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A
8	21-Aug	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A
9	18-Sep	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A
10	16-Oct	Swiss	6 rounds	10+5	N/A