UK Blitz Championships 2022

UK Open Blitz Finals – 2022

Results – Open

Picture – presentations at the Open Final

	Player	Federation	Points out of 15	Awards
1	GM Jon S Speelman	ENG	12.5	UK Open Blitz Champion 2022 & English Blitz Champion 2022
2	GM Eldar Gasanov	UKR	12,5
3	GM Mark L Hebden	ENG	11
4	Frederick Gordon	SCO	10,5
5	IM Jonah B Willow	ENG	9,5
6	GM Daniel W Gormally	ENG	9,5
7	FM Yichen Han	NED	8,5
8	IM Jose Camacho Collados	WLS	8
9	Jacob Connor Boswell	ENG	7
10	NM Alfie Onslow	ENG	6,5
11	Allan W Beardsworth	ENG	5,5
12	CM Jonathan Pein	ENG	5
13	FM Charles H Storey	ENG	5
14	Oliver Stubbs	ENG	4
15	Koichi B Nicholas	ENG	3,5
16	Mandar Tahmankar	IND	1,5

Results – Women’s

Picture – presentations at the Women’s Final. Read Leonard Barden’s report on Bodhana’s performance here – https://www.ft.com/content/43900cee-ec21-4fb4-a42e-598ec35cba06

	Player	Federation	Points out of 14	Awards
1	WGM Elmira Mirzoeva	FID	12	UK Open Blitz Women’s Champion 2022
2	Bodhana Sivanandan	ENG	11	Joint English Women’s Blitz Champion 2022
3	Kamila Hryshchenko	ENG	11	Joint English Women’s Blitz Champion 2022
4	Stefanie Duessler	GER	8,5
5	Meri Grigoryan	ENG	8,5
6	Madara Orlovska	LAT	8
7	Andrea Henderson	AND	8
8	Louise Head	ENG	7,5
9	Elis Denele Dicen	ENG	7
10	Lindsay Pyun	ENG	5,5
11	Anusha Subramanian	ENG	5,5
12	Eugenia Karas	ENG	5
13	Natasha K Regan	ENG	4
14	Anita Somton	ENG	3,5
15	Louison Fuchs	FRA	0

Gallery

The Open and Women’s finals for the UK Open Blitz will take place on 3rd December at the Woodland Grange Hotel near Leamington Spa. Each final will be a 16-player FIDE-rated Round Robin tournament between qualifying players from the regional events earlier in the year.

Pairings and results
Pairings and results will be available for all rounds at these links —
UK Blitz Open Finals 2022 – https://chess-results.com/tnr679177.aspx?lan=1&art=1&flag=30
UK Blitz Women’s Finals 2022 – https://chess-results.com/tnr679179.aspx?lan=1&art=1&flag=30

Broadcasts
You will be able to follow the live boards here —
Chess 24
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/british-blitz-championship-2022#live
https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/british-womens-blitz-championship-2022#live
Live Chess Cloud
https://view.livechesscloud.com/#ea5f6b65-2904-443d-850c-73eab17fb261
https://view.livechesscloud.com/#7bbc9857-1eae-4db7-aea8-6cf368134932
Chess.com
https://www.chess.com/events/2022-uk-blitz-championship-final
https://www.chess.com/events/2022-uk-womens-blitz-championship-final
Lichess.org
https://lichess.org/broadcast/uk-blitz-2022–open-final/2P1X2Urj
https://lichess.org/broadcast/uk-blitz-2022–womens-final/6NNhQYgs

Commentary

Commentary will be provided for all fifteen rounds starting at 12 midday and continuing to the end of the final round, which is expected to be shortly after 6.00pm. The commentary team for the event will be FM Jonathan Blackburn (above left), FM Hamish Olson (above right) and GM John Emms (middle). The commentary stream will be broadcast live on https://www.youtube.com/@EnglishChessFederation/streams and copied to the ECF channel on YouTube for later viewing.

Format
The finals will be a 16-player FIDE-rated Round Robin tournament with the winners becoming UK Open and Women’s Blitz Champions for 2022. The time limit will be all moves in 3 minutes plus 2 seconds per move with the following schedule —

Round	Time	Round	Time	Round	Time
Round 1	12.00	Round 6	14.15	Round 11	16.30
Round 2	12.20	Round 7	14.35	Round 12	16.50
Round 3	12.40	Round 8	14.55	Round 13	17.10
Round 4	13.00	Round 9	15.15	Round 14	17.30
Round 5	13.20	Round 10	15.35	Round 15	17.50

The pairings for the finals will be drawn randomly in advance of the tournament.

Tie-breaks
In the event of a tie after round 15, tie-breaks will be as follows —
1. Direct Encounter
2. Sonnenborn-Berger
3. Koya System
4. Tournament Performance Rating, calculated using the players’ ratings in the following order –

1. FIDE Blitz Rating (November 2019)
2. FIDE Rapidplay Rating (November 2019)
3. FIDE Rating (November 2019)
4. Other Rating Assigned by the Organiser. This will normally be a player’s national rating.
5. The tie will remain unbroken, and any prize money for the tied positions will be shared

Prizes
The prize money for the finals will be as follows —

Position	Open Final	Women’s Final
1st	£800	£400
2nd	£400	£200
3rd	£300	£150
4th	£200	£100
5th – 8th	£150 (x4)	£75 (x4)
9th – 16th	£100 (x8)	£50 (x8)
Total	£3,100	£1,550

Total prize fund – £4650

Pictures courtesy of Brendan O’Gorman, Wikidata, ChessBase
Left to right — GM Jon Speelman, GM Danny Gormally, GM Mark Hebden, WGM Katarzyna Toma, WGM Elmira Mirzoeva, Stefanie Duessler

Qualifiers for the two finals are as follows –

Open Final	FIDE Blitz	Women’s Final	FIDE Blitz
GM Jon S Speelman	2569	WGM Katarzyna Toma	2210
GM Danny Gormally	2554	WGM Elmira Mirzoeva	2160
GM Mark L Hebden	2457	Stefanie Duessler	2093
GM Eldar Gasanov	2454	Madara Orlovska	2063
IM Jose Camacho Collados	2351	WFM Meri Grigoryan	1978
IM Jonah B Willow	2248	Kamila Hryshchenko	1938
Allan W Beardsworth	2195	WIM Natasha Regan	1951
FM Charles Storey	2188	WFM Andrea Hendeson	1909
CM Jonathan Pein	2140	WFM Louise Head	1849
Yichen Han	2117	Anusha Subramanian	1740
Mandar Tahmankar	2104	Anita Somton	1690
Koichi Nicholas	2075	Bodhana Sivanandan	1626
Frederick Gordon	2019	Eugenia Karas	1560
NM Alfie Onslow	2015	Elis Denele Dicen	1420
Oliver Stubbs	1971	Lindsay Pyun	1399
Jacob Connor Boswell	1948	Louison Fuchs	1394