Shropshire Congress 2024 Results
OPEN
1st Adithya Vaidyanathan 4.5/5
2nd= Lewis Martin FM, Nigel Ferrington 4/5
U2085 Grading prize Bruce Baer 3.5/5
U1965 Grading prize Dan Hilditch-Love, Darren Whitmore 3/5
U1875 Grading prize Tom Junde He 3/5
Top Shropshire player in Open – Nigel Ferrington 4/5
MAJOR
1st Joe Rastall 4.5/5
2nd= Andrew Lake, Toby Neal 4/5
U1830 Grading prize Chris Hankey, John Cawston, Michael Connor, Robert Dean 3.5/5
U1750 Grading prize Ben Graff 3.5/5
U1692 Grading prize Krzysztof Jakobiak 3.5/5
INTERMEDIATE
1st Dhairya Pandya 4.5/5
2nd= Sam Hollands, Archie Flavell, Andrew Rodger 4/5
U1605 Grading prize Colin Weller, David Gilbert, Gary Slegg, Stephen Chadaway 3/5
U1570 Grading prize Joe Moxon 3.5/5
U1520 Grading prize Nick Holmes 3/5
MINOR
1st= Alex Brims, Andy Jones 4.5/5
3rd= Aiden Griffiths, Lawrence Thomason, Lea Podmore, Patrick Bourne, Rudi Bedford, Siyao Ou 3.5/5
U1425 Grading prize Aiden Griffiths, Thomas Hynes 3.5/5
U1300 Grading prize Rudi Bedford 3.5/5
U1230 Grading prize Patrick Bourne, Siyao Ou 3.5/5
ALL RESULTS
https://chess-results.com/tnr875706.aspx?lan=1
PGN’s for all live boards and all games in the open are currently being annotated and will be uploaded onto chess results in the near future.
PHOTOS AND REPORT
https://www.facebook.com/groups/shropshirechess/posts/1304200106942592/
LIVE BOARDS
DGT Broadcast // Lichess Broadcast
Shropshire Congress 2023 Results
OPEN
1st Jonathan Blackburn FM 4.5/5
2nd Bruce Baer 4/5
3rd= Charles Morris, Jonathan Underwood, Peter Ackley 3.5/5
U2130 Grading prize Charles Morris, Jonathan Underwood 3.5/5
U2084 Grading prize Peter Ackley 3.5/5
U2009 Grading prize Roger de Coverly 2.5/5
Top Shropshire player in Open – Nathanael Paul 3/5
MAJOR
1st= Graham Ashcroft, Joe Lees-Conway, Oleg Cukovs 4/5
U1877 Grading prize Billy Fellowes 3.5/5
U1826 Grading prize Roger Greatorex 3.5/5
U1770 Grading prize Chris Hankey 3.5/5
INTERMEDIATE
1st Ewan Herd 5/5
2nd= Paul Doherty, Joe Rastal, Adithya Vaidyanathan, Carmel Barwick 4/5
U1665 Grading prize Stefan Tenant, Peter Mellor, Gert De Block 3.5/5
U1629 Grading prize Shane Greenwood 3.5/5
U1544 Grading prize Jay Baddeley, Stephen Gaskell, Akshath Shivakumar 2.5/5
MINOR
1st= Sam Hollands, Sean Tavenor 4.5/5
2nd= Sam Fowkes, Jeff Wilson, Amitesh Purushothaman 4/5
U1425 Grading prize Stephen Tullett 3.5/5
U1389 Grading prize Alf Evans 3/5
U1301 Grading prize Amitesh Purushothaman 4/5
ALL RESULTS
http://chess-results.com/tnr713730.aspx?lan=1&art=0&fed=ENG
PHOTOS
https://www.shropshirechess.org/shropshire-congress/gallery-shropshire-chess-congress-2023/
Shropshire Congress 2020 Results
OPEN
1st Joseph McPhillips IM 4.5/5
2nd Marcus Harvey FM 4/5
3rd= Jeremy Fallowfield, Stephen Gordon GM, Ameet Ghasi IM, Henrik Stepanyan, Thomas Sygnowski 3.5/5
U2050 Grading prize Chris Doran 3/5
Top Shropshire player in Open – Richard Bryant, Nathanael Paul 2.5/5
MAJOR
1st= Graham Ashcroft, Robert Clegg, Tim Lane, David Stephenson 4/5
U154 Grading prize Robert Dean, Marcel Taylor 3.5/5
INTERMEDIATE
1st= Chris Fraser, Alan Woollaston 4.5/5
3rd= Peter Mellor, George Viszokai 4/5
U118 Grading prize Daniel Hardman, Matthew Holmes 3.5/5
MINOR
1st Oliver Davies 5/5
2nd= Dillan Duke, Dylan Whitney 4/5
U78 Grading prize Gerald Gregory, James Holyhead 3.5/5
TOP JUNIOR IN CONGRESS
Devan Patel 3/5 in Open.
Shropshire Congress 2019 Results
OPEN
1st Ameet Ghasi IM 4.5/5
2nd Tomasz Sygnowski 4/5
3rd = David Berczes GM, Ryzard Maciol 3.5/5
Grading prize Ieysaa Bin-Suhayl, Nathanael Paul, Phillip Zabrocki 3/5
Top Shropshire player in Open – Nigel Ferrington, Nathanael Paul, Phillip Zabrocki 3/5
MAJOR
1st Graham Ashcroft 4.5/5
2nd Finlay Bowcott-Terry 4/5
3rd= Dustin Bowcott, Matthew Clark, Robert Dean, Ian Emery, Sam Gibbs, Ed Goodwin, David Gostelow, Anita Somton 3.5/5
Grading prize Robert Dean, Ed Goodwin, Dustin Bowcott 3.5/5
INTERMEDIATE
1st Gary White 5/5
2nd Graham Shepherd, Dimitar Kirachen 4/5
Grading prize Julian Hawthorne, Dimitar Kirachen
MINOR
1st Jeff Wilson 4.5/5
2nd Khalid Khan, 4/5
3rd= Ansh Agrawal, Silas Bowcott-Terry, Ben Newnham 3.5/5
Top Junior in congress
Ansh Agrawal, Silas Bowcott-Terry, Ben Newnham, Anita Somton 3.5/5
Shropshire Congress 2018 Results
OPEN 1 Alan Merry IM (5)
2= Ameet Ghasi IM, Stephen Gordon GM (4)
Under 2000 grading prize
Tim Holton, Nathanael Paul. Richard Webster, Phil Zabrocki (2.5)
Top Shropshire player in the Open
Nigel Ferrington, Nathanael Paul, Phil Zabrocki
MAJOR
1= Chris Lewis, Glyn Pugh (4)
3= Tim Lane, Mark Whitehead (3.5)
Under 157 grading prize
Ed Goodwin
INTERMEDIATE
1= Dominic Bareford, David Gilbert, Colin Mace, Richard Szwajkun (4)
Under 120 grading prize – Vic Brown, Windsor Peck, Alan Woolaston (3)
MINOR
1 Chinmay Monga (4.5)
2= John Hodges, Tom Skerrett
Under 80 grading prize
Martin Ayres, Stuart Hamilton, Terry Knight (3)
TOP JUNIOR IN THE CONGRESS Beren Griffiths, Rohan Pal (3)
Shropshire Congress 2017 Results
OPEN
1 Alan Merry IM (4.5)
2= Keith Arkell GM, Andrew Horton FM (4)
Under 2000 FIDE grading prize
John Edge, Roger de Coverley, Max French, Chirag Guha, Aditya Munshi (2.5)
Top Shropshire player in the Open
Nigel Ferrington (3)
MAJOR
1= Athar Ansari, John Gorman, Peter Lovatt, Nigel Towers (4)
Under 140 ECF grading prize
Matthew Carr (3)
MINOR
1= Simon Killarney, Kate Walker (4.5)
3= Julian Hawthorne, Dimitar Kirachen, Jason Madden, Steve Szwajkun (4)
Under 100 ECF grading prize
Dimitar Kirachen, Steve Szwajkun (4)
JUNIOR
Top Junior in the congress
1= Daniel Abbas (3 in Open), Ewan Herd (3 in Minor)
Shropshire Congress 2016 Results
OPEN
1st= (4/5) Keith Arkell GM
Stephen Gordon GM
Danny Gormally GM
Mark Hebden GM
Jahongir Vakhidov GM
Grading prize Under 2000 FIDE
(3/4) Golam Ali and Richard Bryant
Top Shropshire player in the Open – joint trophy winners
(3/4) Richard Bryant and Nigel Ferrington
British Championship qualifying place
Ryszard Maciol (3/5 in Open, qualifies on tie-break)
MAJOR
1st= (4/5) Michal Bukojemski
Robert Clegg
Ed Goodwin
Ben Graff
Grading prize U140ECF (3.5/5)
Athar Mehmood
MINOR
1st= (4.5/5) Roger Brown
Chris Fraser
3rd= (4/5) David Curran
Chris Paul
Tim Skidmore
Stefan Tenant
Grading prize U100 ECF (3/5)
Nick Holmes
JUNIOR
Top Junior in the congress (3.5/5 in Major)
Anita Somton
Shropshire Chess Congress 2015 results
OPEN
1st= John Cox IM (Barbican) 4/5
Nigel Ferrington (Telepost)
Ryszard Maciol (Cambridge)
Gordon Scott (Norwich)
Top Shropshire player in the Open
Nigel Ferrington (Telepost)
Under 180 grading prize
Golam Ali (Sutton Coldfield) 3/5
Trevor Brotherton (Church Stretton)
Richard Bryant (Oswestry)
Paul Colburn (Braunstone)
Steve Tarr (Telford)
MAJOR
1st= Ian Emery (Warley Quinborne) 4.5/5
Nigel Holroyd (Peterborough)
3rd Glyn Pugh (Priorslee Lions) 4/5
Under 145 grading prize
Matthew Best (Shrewsbury) 3.5/5
Colin Fell (Reading)
Karl Lockett (Crewe)
MINOR
1st= Marco Ho (South Birmingham) 4.5/5
Kieran Newell (East Cheshire)
3rd= Jim Barrett (South Birmingham) 4/5
Phil Burgess (Walsall)
Jason Madden (Leamington)
Kate Walker (Telepost)
Under 105 grading prize
Steve Alcock (Stourbridge)
Paul Broderick (Telford)
Ewan Herd (Pensby)
Dominic Holmes (Newport)
Dave Lovegrove (Newport)
TOP JUNIOR IN CONGRESS
Ben Scattergood (Holmes Chapel) 3.5/5
Joe McPhillips (Bolton)