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09/08/2026

British Championships 2026

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

 

 

Round 9

 

Results in the final round were as follows, making Shreyas Royal the 2026 British Champion with Michael Adams and Luke McShane 2nd-3rd=. 

Trisha Kanyamarala appears to win the British Ladies Championship.

 

Bd.

Rtg

White

Pts.

Result

Pts.

Black

Rtg

1

2514

GM

Royal, Shreyas

1 - 0

IM

Grieve, Harry

2508

2

2438

GM

Williams, Simon K

0 - 1

6

GM

McShane, Luke J

2597

3

2357

FM

Banerjee, Supratit

6

0 - 1

6

GM

Adams, Michael

2595

4

2494

GM

Ghasi, Ameet K

½ - ½

6

IM

Mahadevan, Siva

2447

5

2439

IM

Roberson, Peter T

0 - 1

IM

Bazakutsa, Svyatoslav

2488

6

2398

IM

Kanyamarala, Tarun

½ - ½

IM

Czopor, Maciej

2455

7

2459

IM

Willow, Jonah B

5

1 - 0

CM

Turner, Max N

2273

8

2470

IM

Harvey, Marcus R

5

½ - ½

5

GM

Davies, Nigel R

2276

9

2244

IM

Cummings, David H

5

0 - 1

5

GM

Gordon, Stephen J

2429

10

2410

IM

Pert, Richard G

5

1 - 0

5

FM

He, Tom Junde

2266

11

2338

FM

Sivanandan, Bodhana

5

½ - ½

5

FM

Hobson, Kenneth

2244

12

2314

FM

Fava, Lorenzo

5

1 - 0

5

WGM

Yao, Lan

2320

13

2320

FM

Badacsonyi, Stanley

5

0 - 1

5

IM

Balaji, Aaravamudhan

2285

14

2164

CM

Deepak Ambattu, Rithvik

4

½ - ½

4

GM

Hebden, Mark L *)

2345

15

2235

CM

Lishoy Gengis Paratazham, Dildarav

5

0 - 1

5

FM

Vijayakumar, Rishi

2315

16

2205

 

Crawford, Owen

5

0 - 1

IM

Han, Yichen

2421

17

2262

FM

Bezuidenhout, Roland

½ - ½

IM

Waldhausen Gordon, Frederick

2455

18

2377

IM

Jackson, James P

1 - 0

 

Brahme, Avadhoot Lokesh

2160

19

2110

CM

Lentzos, Ioannis

½ - ½

IM

Ledger, Andrew J

2312

20

2296

WGM

Kanyamarala, Trisha

1 - 0

WGM

Mirzoeva, Elmira

2261

21

2089

 

Sharma, Devesh

½ - ½

CM

Norris, Zack

2275

22

2270

CM

Murawski, Jan

1 - 0

FM

Wall, Tim P

2148

23

2399

GM

McDonald, Neil R

4

1 - 0

4

WGM

Toma, Katarzyna

2208

24

2143

 

Cont, Arya

4

0 - 1

4

FM

Chow, Sam

2381

25

2313

GM

Wells, Peter K

4

½ - ½

4

 

Raju, Sooraj Menothuparambil

2187

26

2114

 

Nicholas, Koichi B

4

0 - 1

4

FM

Shearsby, Jude

2293

27

2085

 

Quaite, Toby

4

½ - ½

4

GM

Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan E

2270

28

2261

FM

Vaidyanathan, Adithya

4

0 - 1

4

 

Kolani, Arjun

2158

29

2075

 

Blackford, Ross

4

0 - 1

4

IM

Pigott, John C

2255

30

2250

 

Cancedda-Dupuis, Livio

4

½ - ½

4

IM

Baker, Chris W

2153

31

2003

 

Sefton, Adam

4

½ - ½

4

FM

Khoury, Theo

2249

32

2232

 

Bowcott-Terry, Finlay

4

- - +

4

 

Tahmankar, Mandar

2085

33

2220

FM

Blackburn, Jonathan Lb

4

½ - ½

4

 

Davis, Colin J

2056

34

2125

CM

Zhao, George

0 - 1

IM

Bates, Richard A

2296

35

2103

WFM

Hariharan, Shambavi

0 - 1

FM

Han, Qixiang

2239

36

2073

WCM

Bhatia, Kanishka

½ - ½

 

Saunders, Aron

2225

37

2132

CM

Fellowes, Billy

1 - 0

CM

Gunatilake, Vinuda

1986

38

2292

IM

Fitzsimons, David

3

½ - ½

3

 

Potter, John M

2092

39

2252

IM

Rudd, Jack

3

0 - 1

3

WFM

Rida, Ruqayyah

2070

40

2182

WFM

Dicen, Elis Denele

3

½ - ½

3

 

Patel, Zain

2077

41

2043

CM

Rich, Aaron

3

1 - 0

3

 

Carroll, Thomas

2180

42

2160

 

Kothari, Jai

3

½ - ½

3

 

Terler, Bohdan

2035

43

2038

 

Green, Michael

3

1 - 0

3

 

Hill, Alistair

2143

44

2096

 

Rughani, Mahin

3

½ - ½

3

 

Cheng, Louis

2008

45

2005

 

Thomas, James

½ - ½

3

 

Friar, Joseph D

1994

46

1953

 

Vaddhireddy, Sai

½ - ½

 

Verbytski, Oleg

2228

47

1977

 

Ortiz Sanchez, Luis

½ - ½

2

FM

Varnam, Liam D

2149

48

1933

WFM

Cooke, Suzy G

2

+ - -

2

CM

Stubbs, Oliver

2185

49

1964

WCM

Camp, Imogen Al

2

0 - 1

2

 

Chapman, Luke

1856

50

1860

WCM

Nevska, Gerda

0 - 1

2

 

Elgar, Tim

2180