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05/08/2026

British Championships 2026

1st to 9th August 2026, The University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK

 

 

Round 5

 

The only player on 100% after 4 rounds, the Ukrainian Svyatoslav Bazakutsa, was held to a draw.  The last game to finish was Michael Adams v Sam Chow, lasting five-and-a-half hours.

 

Round results 5 were as follows.

 

Bd.

Rtg

White

Pts.

Result

Pts.

Black

Rtg

1

2514

GM

Royal, Shreyas

½ - ½

4

IM

Bazakutsa, Svyatoslav

2488

2

2508

IM

Grieve, Harry

1 - 0

IM

Harvey, Marcus R

2470

3

2338

FM

Sivanandan, Bodhana

½ - ½

IM

Han, Yichen

2421

4

2410

IM

Pert, Richard G

3

0 - 1

3

GM

McShane, Luke J

2597

5

2595

GM

Adams, Michael

3

1 - 0

3

FM

Chow, Sam

2381

6

2320

FM

Badacsonyi, Stanley

3

½ - ½

3

IM

Czopor, Maciej

2455

7

2439

IM

Roberson, Peter T

3

½ - ½

3

FM

Han, Qixiang

2239

8

2312

IM

Ledger, Andrew J

3

½ - ½

3

GM

Williams, Simon K

2438

9

2270

CM

Murawski, Jan

0 - 1

GM

Ghasi, Ameet K

2494

10

2459

IM

Willow, Jonah B

½ - ½

IM

Bates, Richard A

2296

11

2262

FM

Bezuidenhout, Roland

0 - 1

IM

Mahadevan, Siva

2447

12

2261

FM

Vaidyanathan, Adithya

0 - 1

GM

Gordon, Stephen J

2429

13

2244

IM

Cummings, David H

½ - ½

GM

McDonald, Neil R

2399

14

2455

IM

Waldhausen Gordon, Frederick

3

1 - 0

3

GM

Hebden, Mark L

2345

15

2398

IM

Kanyamarala, Tarun

1 - 0

FM

Shearsby, Jude

2293

16

2377

IM

Jackson, James P

0 - 1

FM

He, Tom Junde

2266

17

2232

 

Bowcott-Terry, Finlay

1 - 0

IM

Golding, Alex

2370

18

2357

FM

Banerjee, Supratit

1 - 0

FM

Hobson, Kenneth

2244

19

2132

CM

Fellowes, Billy

½ - ½

WGM

Yao, Lan

2320

20

2073

WCM

Bhatia, Kanishka

0 - 1

FM

Vijayakumar, Rishi

2315

21

2314

FM

Fava, Lorenzo

1 - 0

 

Raju, Sooraj Menothuparambil

2187

22

2313

GM

Wells, Peter K

2

½ - ½

 

Blackford, Ross

2075

23

2292

IM

Fitzsimons, David

2

0 - 1

2

 

Kolani, Arjun

2158

24

2153

IM

Baker, Chris W

2

0 - 1

2

IM

Balaji, Aaravamudhan

2285

25

2276

GM

Davies, Nigel R

2

½ - ½

2

 

Majeed, Haroon

2153

26

2143

 

Cont, Arya

2

1 - 0

2

CM

Norris, Zack

2275

27

2273

CM

Turner, Max N

2

1 - 0

2

 

Hill, Alistair

2143

28

2096

 

Rughani, Mahin

2

0 - 1

2

GM

Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan E

2270

29

2089

 

Sharma, Devesh

2

0 - 1

2

IM

Pigott, John C

2255

30

2250

 

Cancedda-Dupuis, Livio

2

1 - 0

2

 

Tahmankar, Mandar

2085

31

2085

 

Quaite, Toby

2

½ - ½

2

WGM

Toma, Katarzyna

2208

32

2003

 

Sefton, Adam

2

½ - ½

2

CM

Dupuis, Denis K

2183

33

2056

 

Davis, Colin J

2

0 - 1

2

CM

Deepak Ambattu, Rithvik

2164

34

2160

 

Brahme, Avadhoot Lokesh

2

0 - 1

2

WFM

Rida, Ruqayyah

2070

35

2296

WGM

Kanyamarala, Trisha

1 - 0

CM

Rich, Aaron

2043

36

2114

 

Nicholas, Koichi B

0 - 1

WGM

Mirzoeva, Elmira

2261

37

2235

CM

Lishoy Gengis Paratazham, Dildarav

1 - 0

CM

Zhao, George

2125

38

2110

CM

Lentzos, Ioannis

1 - 0

 

Verbytski, Oleg

2228

39

2092

 

Potter, John M

0 - 1

FM

Blackburn, Jonathan Lb

2220

40

2205

 

Crawford, Owen

1 - 0

 

Friar, Joseph D

1994

41

2160

 

Kothari, Jai

0 - 1

 

Green, Michael

2038

42

2005

 

Thomas, James

0 - 1

FM

Wall, Tim P

2148

43

2252

IM

Rudd, Jack

1

1 - 0

1

FM

Varnam, Liam D

2149

44

2077

 

Patel, Zain

1

0 - 1

1

FM

Khoury, Theo

2249

45

2035

 

Terler, Bohdan

1

½ - ½

1

 

Saunders, Aron

2225

46

2185

CM

Stubbs, Oliver

1

0 - 1

1

 

Jermy, Jaden

2012

47

2182

WFM

Dicen, Elis Denele

1

½ - ½

1

CM

Gunatilake, Vinuda

1986

48

1953

 

Vaddhireddy, Sai

1

0 - 1

1

 

Carroll, Thomas

2180

49

2180

 

Elgar, Tim

½

1 - 0

½

WCM

Camp, Imogen Al

1964

50

1860

WCM

Nevska, Gerda

½

0 - 1

½

WFM

Hariharan, Shambavi

2103

51

1856

 

Chapman, Luke

½

0 - 1

½

 

Cheng, Louis

2008

52

1977

 

Ortiz Sanchez, Luis

½

½ - ½

½

WFM

Cooke, Suzy G

1933

 

 

FM

Badacsonyi, Frankie

0*

 

 

not paired

 

 

 

WCM

Ruddy, Rachel

½

0*

 

 

not paired

 

* seemingly zero-point byes