UK Open Blitz Championships 2023

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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 –

OPENhttps://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  

WOMENhttps://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.