2024 English and English Women’s Championships – Summary Report

Both Championships ended with two players tied for top place on 6 points, with the English and English Women’s titles decided on play-offs between GMs Gawain Jones and Mickey Adams and WGMs Elmira Mirzoeva and Katarzyna Toma. The play-off format was two rapidplay games at 20|10, then two at 5|3 blitz if not decided in the rapidplay and finally an Armageddon game if not decided in the blitz.

Elmira and Kata were level at 1-1 in the rapidplay, with Elmira going on to win both blitz games and take the Women’s Champion title. Full results are at https://chess-results.com/tnr957360.aspx?lan=1

For PGNs of both events – English 2024 | English Womens 2024

English Championships

English Championship round 7 top boards – Mickey Adams vs Ameet Ghasi and Peter Wells vs Gawain Jones

Round 7 – view across the top 16 boards

Final Standings
At the end of round 7 GMs Jones and Adams were tied for top place on 6 points, followed by twelve players on 5 points.

1 GM Adams, Michael ENG 2750 4NCL Guildford 6
2 GM Jones, Gawain Cb ENG 2663 Guildford 6
3 GM Wells, Peter K ENG 2408 Witney 5
4 IM Ghasi, Ameet K ENG 2563 Richmond & Twickenham 5
5 GM Gormally, Daniel W ENG 2455 4NCL Blackthorne Russia 5
6 IM Roberson, Peter T ENG 2459 St Albans 5
7 IM Wadsworth, Matthew J ENG 2531 Maidenhead 5
8 GM Fernandez, Daniel H ENG 2605 4NCL Wood Green 5
9 IM Willow, Jonah B ENG 2536 4NCL Wood Green 5
10   Bowcott-Terry, Finlay ENG 2328 Halesowen 5
11 IM Bates, Richard A ENG 2373 Hackney 5
12 CM Badacsonyi, Stanley ENG 2316 Muswell Hill 5
13 CM Hobson, Kenneth ENG 2254 Cowley 5
14   Savidge, Daniel ENG 2157 Chester 5

English Women’s Championship

Women’s Championship round 7 – top two boards

Women’s Championship Round 7 – view across the playing area

Final Standings

Kata Toma and Elmira Mirzoeva tied for top place on 6 points, followed by two players on 4½ points and three players on 4 points.

1 WGM Toma, Katarzyna ENG 2355 4NCL Wood Green 6
2 WGM Mirzoeva, Elmira ENG 2260 West London 6
3   Hryshchenko, Kamila ENG 2257 West Sussex * 4,5
4   Rida, Ruqayyah ENG 2155 Essex Juniors 4,5
5 WCM Dicen, Elis Denele ENG 2194 Coventry Chess Academy 4
6 WFM Varney, Zoe ENG 2169 4NCL Blackthorne Russia 4
7   Maton, Emily ENG 2016 Hertfordshire Juniors 4

Further Reports

You can follow the links below for commentary on the last two rounds and a full report on ChessBase.

Final round commentary with WGM Lisa Yao and IM Harry Grieve: https://www.twitch.tv/ecf_streaming

ChessBase summary report: https://en.chessbase.com/post/english-championships-2024-r7