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UK Open Blitz Finals 2024
The finals for the UK Open Blitz Championships 2024 were held at the Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa on 16th November. These were the fifth annual finals in an event which was established in 2018. 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.
Natasha Regan’s excellent commentary featuring GM guests can be found here – https://www.youtube.com/@EnglishChessFederation
Format
Each of the finals was played as a 16-player FIDE-rated Round Robin tournament. The time limit was 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 |
15.55 |
Round 2 |
12.20 |
Round 7 |
14.35 |
Round 12 |
16.15 |
Round 3 |
12.40 |
Round 8 |
14.55 |
Round 13 |
16.35 |
Round 4 |
13.00 |
Round 9 |
15.15 |
Round 14 |
16.55 |
Round 5 |
13.20 |
Round 10 |
15.35 |
Round 15 |
17.15 |
Finals Regulations
These can be found in the main regs document here. The Finals Regulations included updated tie-break rules taking account of the all-play-all format.
Pairings
The all-play-all pairings for the two finals were drawn randomly by the Chief Arbiter on the evening of 4th November, witnessed by the ECF Home Director and County Championship Controller.
Open: https://chess-results.com/tnr1053611.aspx?lan=1&art=2&turdet=YES&flag=30
Women: https://chess-results.com/tnr1053622.aspx?lan=1&art=2&turdet=YES&flag=30
Open Championship
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ECF Home Director Nigel Towers presents the Open trophy to UK Open Blitz Champion GM Eldar Gasanov | English Blitz Champion Danny Gormally |
GM Eldar Gasanov came first in the Open Section with 11.5 points from 15 games to become the UK Open Blitz Champion for 2024. Eldar clinched the title in his round 15 game against GM Shreyas Royal.
GM Danny Gormally finished 2nd on 11 points to become the English Blitz Champion for 2024 (with the title awarded to the highest finishing ENG registered player).
FM Freddie Gordon and GM Shreyas Royal finished 3rd= on 10.5 points.
Final standings were as follows –
Place |
|
Name |
Rating |
Pts. |
Prize |
1 |
GM |
Eldar Gasanov |
2472 |
11½ |
£1000 |
2 |
GM |
Danny Gormally |
2490 |
11 |
£500 |
3 |
FM |
Frederick Waldhausen Gordon |
2349 |
10½ |
£300 |
4 |
FM |
GM Shreyas Royal |
2288 |
10½ |
£200 |
5 |
CM |
Supratit Banerjee |
2211 |
9 |
£150 |
6 |
FM |
Stanley Badacsonyi |
2375 |
9 |
£150 |
7 |
IM |
Aravamudhan Balaji |
2314 |
8 |
£150 |
8 |
|
Rishi Vijayakumar |
2145 |
8 |
£150 |
9 |
CM |
Indy Southcott-Moyers |
2161 |
7½ |
£100 |
10 |
IM |
Yichen Han |
2310 |
7 |
£100 |
11 |
GM |
Peter K Wells |
2415 |
7 |
£100 |
12 |
Lorenzo Lucchi |
2120 |
6 |
£100 |
|
13 |
IM |
Volodymyr Tuschynskyi |
2286 |
5½ |
£100 |
14 |
|
Jacob Connor Boswell |
2122 |
4½ |
£100 |
15 |
|
Kamil Marchlewicz |
2143 |
3½ |
£100 |
16 |
|
Benedict Keohane |
1979 |
1½ |
£100 |
Women’s Championship
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ECF Home Director presents the Women’s trophy to UK Open Blitz Women’s Champion WFM Eunice Hng | 2nd= and Joint English Women’s Blitz Champion WFM Kamila Hyryschenko | 2nd= and Joint English Women’s Blitz Champion WFM Bodhana Sivanandan |
There was a three way tie in the Women’s Championship between WFMs Eunice Hng, Kamila Hyryschenko and Bodhana Sivanandan, who all finished on 12 points.
WFM Eunice Hng became the UK Open Blitz Women’s Champion on direct encounter tie break, with Kamila Hyryschenko and Bodhana Sivanandan becoming the English Women’s Blitz Champions as the highest placed ENG registered players.
Place |
|
Name |
Rtg |
Pts. |
Prize |
1 |
WFM |
Eunice Mei-Xian Hng |
1995 |
12½ |
£500 |
2 |
WFM |
Kamila Hryshchenko |
2065 |
12½ |
£250 |
3 |
WFM |
Bodhana Sivanandan |
2157 |
12½ |
£150 |
4 |
WGM |
Emmanuelle Mei-En Hng |
2040 |
11½ |
£100 |
5 |
WGM |
Elmira Mirzoeva |
2128 |
11 |
£75 |
6 |
Madara Orlovska |
1964 |
11 |
£75 |
|
7 |
|
Ruqayyah Rida |
1970 |
9 |
£75 |
8 |
|
Kanishka Bhatia |
2003 |
8½ |
£75 |
9 |
|
Ana Williams |
1854 |
6½ |
£50 |
10 |
|
Nodirabegim Bakhtiyorova |
1840 |
6 |
£50 |
11 |
|
Anusha Subramanian |
1998 |
5½ |
£50 |
12 |
|
Chrysa Mitraka |
1748 |
5 |
£50 |
13 |
|
Florence Spirling |
1747 |
3½ |
£50 |
14 |
|
Alexandra Hardwick |
1877 |
3 |
£50 |
15 |
|
ACM Irina Briggs |
1658 |
2 |
£50 |
16 |
|
Julia McNab |
1253 |
0 |
£50 |
Further details are available at the link below.
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:
Open Final
Chess.com – https://www.chess.com/events/info/2024-uk-blitz-championship
Lichess.org – https://lichess.org/broadcast/uk-open-blitz-championships-2024/ZhLqzmKS
Women’s Final
Chess.com – https://www.chess.com/events/info/2024-uk-blitz-championship
Lichess.org – https://lichess.org/broadcast/uk-womens-blitz-championships-2024/J6aLaicY
Games
PGN files for both championships can be found here – https://www.englishchess.org.uk/uk-open-blitz-championships-2024-finals-pgns/
Commentary
WIM Natasha Regan provided live commentary on the finals on her Twitch channel at https://www.twitch.tv/WIM_natasharegan. She was joined by a number of guests during the streaming with further details as below.
12.00am – 3.00pm Rounds 1 – 7 – WIM Natasha Regan with GM Matthew Sadler
3.00pm – 6.30pm Rounds 8 – 15 – GM John Emms with GM Chris Ward