Club Championship underway!

By Andrew Medworth
Friday 30 May, 2025

The first round of the Club Championship took place on Thursday, with 28 of the 36 entrants in action!

As with any Swiss tournament, this first round saw some quite unbalanced pairings, and 12 of the 14 games were decisive.

The games largely went according to rating, though a few players got results against higher-rated opponents: Djad Ben-Eshak and Marcus Gordon achieved draws, and Nick Goulbourne won. (Unrated player Andreas Bohnacker also won, though his blitz rating of 1858 suggests he is no beginner!)

Many thanks to Lance Leslie-Smith for being our arbiter this evening.

Next week the tournament takes a break for our monthly FIDE Blitz; the second round is the following week, on 12th June. It’s not too late to enter the tournament if you haven’t already done so: please click here for details.

Games

White Black
1 Hill, Callum 1687 0 - 1 Macneil, Elliott 1982
2 Amior, David 1960 ½ - ½ Ben-Eshak, Djad 1672
3 Pepe, Salvatore 1670 0 - 1 Nilim, Armaan 1900
5 Bansal, Rineesh 1630 0 - 1 Rubeck, Jonathan 1896
6 Gonzini, Gianmaria 1895 1 - 0 Bhaduri, Aviraj 1494
7 Kapur, Gul 1478 0 - 1 Sartenaer, Jean-Claude 1836
8 Funk, Alexander 1810 1 - 0 Jacobs, Stanley G 1434
9 Gordon, Marcus 1413 ½ - ½ Ben-Nathan, David 1789
10 Kollias, Vasileios 1761 1 - 0 Lewis, David 1404
11 Goulbourne, Nick 1303 1 - 0 Hulstrom, Tony 1728
12 Medworth, Andrew 1718 1 - 0 Artman, Tony 1298
13 Bansal, Ronak 1117 0 - 1 O'Gorman, Brendan 1712
14 Paulins, Michael 1702 1 - 0 Abraham, Abe
15 Bohnacker, Andreas 1 - 0 Rogal, Chris S 1697

Byes

  • Full-point: Ramasamy, Thirukumaran; Shiran, Yoni
  • Half-point: Lebedev, Lion; Murphy, Nick; Pride, Stephen C; Garcia, Tom; Mahtani, Arun
  • Zero-point: Alster, Robert

Standings

  • 1-14: Elliott Macneil, Armaan Nilim, Jonathan Rubeck, Jean-Claude Sartenaer, Brendan O'Gorman, Gianmaria Gonzini, AFM Alexander Funk, Vasileios Kollias, Andrew Medworth, AIM Michael Paulins, Thirukumaran Ramasamy, Nick Goulbourne, Andreas Bohnacker, Yoni Shiran (1)
  • 15-23: David Ben-Nathan, Djad Ben-Eshak, Lion Lebedev, David Amior, Nick Murphy, Stephen C Pride, Tom Garcia, Marcus Gordon, Arun Mahtani (½)
  • 24-36: Tony Hulstrom, Chris S Rogal, ACM Aviraj Bhaduri, Stanley G Jacobs, David Lewis, Tony Artman, Abe Abraham, Robert Alster, Callum Hill, Salvatore Pepe, Rineesh Bansal, Gul Kapur, Ronak Bansal (0)