This year’s club championship has a larger entry and is somewhat stronger than last year’s. The first round saw the welcome return of a number of familiar faces, and resulted in 14 decisive games plus a solitary draw.
| White | Black | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lennard, Graeme | 120 | 0 — 1 | Mures, Cristian | 199 |
| 2 | Jones, Chris S | 151 | 0 — 1 | Stefan, Bogdan-Liviu | 2152F |
| 3 | Raoof, Adam N | 185 | 1 — 0 | Goldsmith, Peter | - |
| 4 | Ainscow, Faye | 117 | 0 — 1 | Peiris, Gayan | - |
| 5 | Dragomir, Ionica | - | 1 — 0 | Akinfe, Dotun | - |
| 6 | Murphy, Nick | 108 | 0 — 1 | Bennett, Michael K | 170 |
| 7 | Landau, Jonathan | 166 | 0 — 1 | Lucic, Tihomir | - |
| 8 | Iwi, David | 162 | 1 — 0 | Pliskin, Raymond | 105 |
| 9 | Chai, Kwong | - | 0 — 1 | Rogers, Tim E | 157 |
| 10 | Limonov, Petr | 144 | 1 — 0 | Dziedzic, Tomek (0) | - |
| 11 | Cooper, John | - | ½ — ½ | Jones, David | 144 |
| 12 | Rogal, Chris | 143 | 1 — 0 | Abboud, Alexander | - |
| 13 | Goulbourne, Nick | - | 0 — 1 | Gesthuysen, Malcolm | 141 |
| 14 | Sabin, Frank | 130 | 1 — 0 | Daly, Patrick | - |
| 15 | Sabin, Andrew | 0 — 1 | Brown, Anthony D |