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UK Open Blitz Championships Results
Pictures by Dennis Dicen
The finals for the UK Open Blitz Championships 2023 were held at the Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa on 2nd December. The Championships included an Open and a Women’s final, each event having 16 players with 15 rounds of blitz games at 3|2 time control in an all play all format.
The winners and new champions for 2023 are —
UK Open Blitz Open Champion – GM Eldar Gasanov
UK Open Blitz Women’s Champion – Elis Dicen
Congratulations to Eldar and Elis and well done to all who took part.
Final standings and titles awarded for the two events are –
OPEN – https://chess-results.com/tnr851244.aspx?lan=1&art=1&flag=30
| Rk. | SNo | Name | Rtg | Pts. | |||
| 1 | 11 |  |
GM | Gasanov, Eldar | 2465 | 11.5 | UK Open Blitz Champion – 2023 |
| 2 | 15 |  |
IM | Horton, Andrew P | 2393 | 10.5 | Joint English Open Blitz Champion – 2023 |
| 3 | 1 | |
IM | Ghasi, Ameet K | 2558 | 10.5 | Joint English Open Blitz Champion – 2023 |
| 4 | 8 |  |
FM | O’Gorman, Tom | 2288 | 9.5 | |
| 5 | 6 |  |
FM | Dong, Bao Nghia | 2305 | 9 | |
| 6 | 7 | |
GM | Speelman, Jon S | 2523 | 8.5 | |
| 7 | 16 |  |
FM | Kozusek, Daniel | 2306 | 8 | |
| 8 | 10 | |
Boswell, Jacob Connor | 2128 | 8 | ||
| 9 | 3 |  |
IM | Sarakauskas, Gediminas | 2343 | 8 | |
| 10 | 14 | |
IM | Camacho Collados, Jose | 2265 | 7.5 | |
| 11 | 13 | |
IM | Willow, Jonah B | 2368 | 7 | |
| 12 | 2 | |
GM | Arkell, Keith C | 2393 | 6 | |
| 13 | 4 |  |
IM | Al-Saffar, Araz Basim Mohammed S | 2301 | 5 | |
| 14 | 12 |  |
Maxwell, Daniel | 2109 | 5 | ||
| 15 | 5 | |
Norris, Ethan | 2068 | 3.5 | ||
| 16 | 9 | |
Sanger, Jake M | 1995 | 2.5 |
WOMEN – https://chess-results.com/tnr851246.aspx?lan=1&art=1&flag=30
| Rk. | SNo | Name | Rtg | Pts. | Title | ||
| 1 | 14 | |
Dicen, Elis Denele | 1916 | 11 | UK Open Blitz Women’s Champion and Joint English Women’s Blitz Champion – 2023 | |
| 2 | 5 | |
WCM | Sivanandan, Bodhana | 1944 | 11 | Joint English Women’s Blitz Champion – 2023 |
| 3 | 13 |  |
WFM | Hng, Mei-Xian Eunice | 1949 | 10.5 | |
| 4 | 8 |  |
WGM | Mirzoeva, Elmira | 2078 | 10.5 | |
| 5 | 4 | |
Hryshchenko, Kamila | 2010 | 10.5 | ||
| 6 | 12 | |
WFM | Hng, Mei-En Emmanuelle | 2116 | 8.5 | |
| 7 | 6 |  |
Orlovska, Madara | 1970 | 8 | ||
| 8 | 9 | |
Barwick, Carmel J | 1845 | 7.5 | ||
| 9 | 15 |  |
Bhatia, Kanishka | 1768 | 7.5 | ||
| 10 | 2 | |
Hariharan, Shambavi | 1723 | 7.5 | ||
| 11 | 3 | |
Sainbayar, Anuurai | 1496 | 4.5 | ||
| 12 | 7 | |
Kong, Emma | 1399 | 4 | ||
| 13 | 10 | |
Briggs, Irina | 1560 | 2 | ||
| 14 | 1 | |
Walker, Elmira | 1578 | 1.5 | ||
| 15 | 11 | |
Ou, Siyao | 1387 | 0.5 |
Where to follow the games
The full set of pairings and results for the Championships are available at these links —
Open Championship – https://chess-results.com/tnr851244.aspx?lan=1
Women’s Championship – https://chess-results.com/tnr851246.aspx?lan=1&art=1&flag=30
All games were played on live boards and broadcast via the DGT cloud and online providers with games available at the links below.
DGT Livechess Cloud
Open Blitz 2023 (UK Blitz Championship Open Final 2023) – https://view.livechesscloud.com#78a3fabc-c75c-41fc-ade4-87908542c7ee
Women Blitz 2023 (UK Blitz Championship Women Final 2023) – https://view.livechesscloud.com#d63a360b-ac5b-4d72-a1ae-cb6e5568f6a4
Lichess
Open – https://lichess.org/broadcast/uk-blitz-championship-open-final-2023/round-1/IVIdHrg5
Women – https://lichess.org/broadcast/uk-blitz-championship-women-final-2023/round-1/GEw8Nckx
Chess.com
https://www.chess.com/events/info/2023-uk-blitz-championship-final
Commentary
WIM Natasha Regan provided commentary on the live board broadcasts from the finals on her Twitch channel – https://www.twitch.tv/WIM_natasharegan – starting with Round 2 at 12.20pm on Saturday and running until the end of Round 15 at about 6.30pm. Natasha was joined by a top level commentary team with the detailed schedule as follows —
12.20pm – 2.00pm – Rounds 2-5 – Stanley Badacsonyi and WIM Natasha Regan
2.15pm – 4.15pm – Rounds 6-10 – GM Matthew Sadler and WIM Natasha Regan
4.30pm – finish (around 6.30 pm) – Rounds 11-15 – GM Peter Wells and WIM Natasha Regan
Commentary is still available on Twitch and will be made available on the the ECF’s Youtube account.