Kensington FIDE Rapid Chess
Kensington FIDE Rapid Chess
Sunday afternoons at the Holiday Inn, Wrights Lane (turn left out of the underground at Kensington High Street), London W8 5SP
Tired of playing chess online? Come to our Central London FIDE and ECF Rapid Chess, FORMAT - Open, Under 1700 and Under 1450 swiss tournaments, 6 rounds, 20 mins each plus 5 seconds a move.
All participants must be current English Chess Federation members at Silver or above, including titled players. Our next date is Sunday 21st May 2023. Please forward this link https://bit.ly/kensingtonchess to any chess players who may be interested. If you are UKR registered then please claim your FREE English Chess federation membership!
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A 6-round FIDE & ECF rated rapid in sections played in a Zone 1, Central London location right behind High Street Kensington Underground.
Time control is 20 minutes per player PLUS 5 seconds added to the clock for each move.
Entry fee for all events is £32.00 paid in advance plus £10.00 for anyone not an ECF Silver member or above. Payment on the day is £35.00 for all plus £10.00 if you are not Silver or above. If you are UKR registered then please claim your FREE English Chess federation membership!
Thanks to Rob Hammond (https://chessville.co.uk/), Lance Leslie-Smith and Jo Wildman for running the tournaments so efficiently!
Here is a lovely video of the venue! [VIDEO LINK]
Central London FIDE and ECF Rapid Chess
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The events is held in the Breakfast Room of the Holiday Inn Hotel, Kensington. Just walk through the lobby to find the playing area. Round 1 starts at 12.30pm and the event finishes at approximately 6.30pm. Parking is available on the street but read the notices carefully and do not park on resident’s bays.
The prizes in the Open are £200, £100, £50 plus a rating prize of £50. The prizes in the Major Under 1700 and Minor Under 1450 section are £100, £50 and a rating prize of £50. Cash prizes will be shared.
If you are a parent or sibling, or you have finished your game you are kindly requested to leave the playing area and use the lobby of the Holiday Inn.
Do not leave personal items unattended or they will be removed by the hotel security! Likewise do not leave children unattended for the same reason…
Free entry to Grandmasters and International Masters (choose “pay on the day” but note that you must always be a member of the ECF at Silver or above)
If you want to play in the Major or Minor then your ECF and FIDE ratings have to be below the line in both lists. We may have to move you between sections based on your most up to date rating.
We take entry registrations online, and you can then pay by bank transfer or pay on the day. We have the option to pay by PayPal and pay by card on the day.
COVID policy: Face coverings are optional
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out and contact me.
See you there!
Adam Raoof (adamraoof@gmail.com)
FIDE International Organiser and IA
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE TENTH EVENT
Held Sunday 19th March 2023
Thanks to Rob Hammond, Lance Leslie-Smith, Jo Wildman and Wallace Chess for running this event, which ran smoothly considering how many entries we had!
Open Prizes
1st Equal = FM Yichen Han and IM Graeme Buckley 5.5/6 = £150 each
3rd Equal = FM Alex Browning and IM Peter Large 5/6 = £25 each
Rating Prize = U1680 = Livio Cancedda-Dupuis and Santhosh Abhyuday = £25 each
Major Prizes
1st - £100 + 2nd - £50
Shared (£75.00 each) [5.5/6] - Dhairya Pandya and Salvatore Pepe. 3rd (£25.00) [4.5/6] Qixiang Han
Rating Category Prize (£50) [4.5/6] Jason Skelton (Under 1350)
Minor Prizes
£100 to Leandro Niels Gervasio with 6/6
Second place was shared by Gunnar Niels, Louis Bertagna and Ian Iceton who won £17.00 each
Aahan Sinalkar, Jai Bhatia shared the rating prize and won £25.00 each. All of these players scored an excellent 5/6!
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE NINTH EVENT
Held Sunday 15th January 2023
Thanks to Rob Hammond, Jo Wildman, Satish Gaekwad and Lance Leslie-Smith for running the event, which will be rated in the FIDE and ECF list of 1st February 2023. Our next date at Kensington will be Sunday 19th March, but if you can’t wait do check the calendar at www.chessengland.com and sign up for the newsletter. Email me, adamraoof@gmail.com, with bank details if you want to claim any prize.
Open Prizes
1st - £200 Alex Browning (5.5/6) 2nd - £100 + 3rd - £50 = £150 {£50 ea} (5.0/6) - Yichen Han / Graeme Buckley / Laurin Perkampus Rating Category Prize - £50 {£16.67 ea} (4.0/6) - Supratit Banerjee / Han-Sen Choong / Rock Yu
Major Prizes
1st - £100 - Swati Singha (see above!) 5.5/6 2nd - £50 - Aharon Landman 5/6 Rating Category Prize - £50 - Ethan Dong 5/6
Minor Prizes
1st - £100 : David Bean (5 Points/6) 2nd - £50 : Vladislav Noirot-Nerin (4.5 Points) Rating Category Prize - £50 : Toby McConnell (4.5 Points)
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE EIGHTH EVENT
Held Sunday 4th December 2022
Thanks to Jo Wildman and Lance Leslie-Smith for running the event, which will be rated in the FIDE and ECF list of 1st January 2023. We are booking dates for 2023 and we hope the first date at Kensington will be Sunday 15th January, but will confirm this very soon. Join my newsletter at www.chessengland.com for updates and email me, adamraoof@gmail.com, with bank details if you want to claim a prize.
Open Prizes
1st equal = 5/6 = [350/5] = £70 each IM Alberto Suarez Real, FM Yichen Han, GM Alexander Cherniaev, FM Alex Browning, Stanley Badacsonyi, Rating Category Prize [£25 each] = U1870 = Nishchal Thatte and Robert Stern 4/6
Major Prizes
1st [£100] - Junyi Zhang 5.5/6 2nd [£50] - Peter Steinn Gudmundsson 5/6 Rating Category Prize [£50] - U1300 - Harvey Li 4/6
Minor Prizes
1st [£100] - Saharkar Sharvari (see below) 5/6, 2nd [£50/3 = £16.70 each] - 4.5/6 Simon White, William Rushing, Omar Selim, Rating Category Prize [£50] - Nav Dhinsa 4/6
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE SEVENTH EVENT
Held Sunday 16th October 2022
Thanks to Rob Hammond, Jo Wildman and Lance Leslie-Smith for running the event, which will be rated in the FIDE and ECF list of 1st November. More dates to come! Join my newsletter at www.chessengland.com and email me, adamraoof@gmail.com, with bank details if you want to claim a prize.
Open Prizes
1st (£200) + 2nd (£100) + 3rd (£50) [=£70 each IM Graeme Buckley, GM Stuart Conquest Nicholas Koichi, CM Jonathan Pein, GM Alexander Cherniaev.
Rating Category Prize (£25.00 each) - 3.5/6 Bohdan Terler and Andrey Pichugov.
Major U1700 Prizes
1st equal (£100 + £50) = {£75 each} 5.5/6 Laurie MacKellar, Liam Clery
Rating Category Prize U1280 (£25 each Michael Domarkas and Shahyan Ali 4/6
Minor U1450 Prizes;
1st (£100) William Walshe 5.5/6
2nd (£50 Mykola Yudin 5/6
Rating Category Prize (£50) Ethan Bogerd 4/6
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE SIXTH EVENT
Held Sunday 18th September 2022
Thanks to Jo Wildman, Rob Hammond and Lance Leslie-Smith for the smooth organisation this Sunday!
Our next tournament at the Holiday Inn is on Sunday 16th October 2022. Please forward this link https://bit.ly/kensingtonchess to any chess players who may be interested. Please sign up to our newsletter at www.chessengland.com for more events.
If you win a prize please email your UK bank account and sort code to the organiser, Adam Raoof - adamraoof@gmail.com - and congratulations! For full results google “chess results eng” and look for your section.
Open Prizes 1st (£200) - IM Graeme N Buckley (5.5/6) 2nd/3rd tied (£150) [£75 each] - Mikhail Sedykh, & Lorenzo Lucchi (5/6) Rating Category Prize U1900 [£25 each] (4.5/6) - Remy Rushbrooke - Robert Stern
Major U1700 Prizes 1st (£100) - Terler Bohdan (6.0/6) 2nd (£50) - Konyakhin-Borrelly Gregory Jacques (5.5/6) Rating Category Prize [U1330 FIDE] [£25 each] (3.5/6) - Domarkas Michael - Stus Orest
Minor U1450 Prizes 1st (£100) - Ethan Dong - (5.5/6) 2nd (£50) - Yudin Mykola - (5/6) Rating Category Prize U1100 (£50) - Nathan Girish (3/6)
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE FIFTH EVENT
Held Sunday 31st July 2022
Thanks to Jo Wildman, Rob Hammond and Andrey Masterskikh for coping with the record entry this Sunday!
Please remember that when you finish your games you are requested to leave the playing area, or watch the remaining games in silence!
Prizes: Open 1st (£200) - GM Stuart C Conquest 6/6 2nd (£100) - GM Alexander Cherniaev 5.5/6 3rd (£12.5 each) - GM Eldar Gasanov, Oscar Pollack, Rohan Bansal, & IM Graeme N Buckley 5/6. Rating Category Prize (£50) - Tim Rogers 4.5/6
Prizes: Major 1st & 2nd Sam Hall and Ayan Pradhan £75.00 each 5/6 Rating Category Prize (£50) - Anika Roy 4/6
Prizes: Minor 1st (£100) - Daniel Douglas 6/6 (kindly donated his prize to Chess in Schools and Communities) 2nd (£12.50 each) - Darcy Quinn-Sekyi, Guy Smith, Michael Domarkas, & Oscar Dybowski 5/6 Rating Category Prize (£25 each) - Yichen Zhang and Arne Soulier 4/6
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE FOURTH EVENT
Held Sunday 10th July 2022
Thanks to Jo Wildman, Lance Leslie Smith, Rob Hammond and Andrey Masterskikh for taking the helm this weekend and steering so smoothly.
PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST BE A SILVER MEMBER OR ABOVE TO PARTICIPATE
NEXT TOURNAMENTS AT KENSINGTON - Sundays 31st July and then 18th September. Please forward this link https://bit.ly/kensingtonchess to any chess players who may be interested.
Prizes: Open 1st (£200) - IM Gavin Wall 5.5/6 2nd/3rd (£50 each) - GM Nicolas Checa, FM Harry Grieve & IM Alberto Suarez Real 5/6 Rating Category Prize (U1950 - £50) - Jacob Watson 4.5/6
Prizes: Major U1700 1st (£100) Lucas Oliveri [6/6] 2nd (£50) Julian D Llewellyn [5/6] Rating Category Prize (£50) Alex Gao [4/6]
Prizes: Minor U1450 1st (£100) - Michael Domarkas 5.5/6 2nd (£50) - Michael Buckingham 5/6 Rating Category Prize (U1250 - £25 each) - Eddie Haines and Amy Ba 4.5/6
Link to the crosstables - https://chess-results.com/tnr654462.aspx?lan=1&art=0&turdet=YES&flag=30
WHAT CAN I PLAY IN NEXT?
Tuesday July 12th and also 19th July! - £100 1st, £50 2nd and £50 rating prize guaranteed. Muswell Hill / East Finchley FIDE Rapidplay, [105 Fortis Green, Muswell Hill, London N2 9HR] on Tuesdays 10.30am to 5pm (lovely food at The Clissold Arms) www.muswellhillchess.blogspot.com
July 16th and 17th - Mill Hill FIDE Congress, Under 2400, Under 1900 and Under 1700. Standard play and FIDE and ECF rated congress.
https://millhillchess.blogspot.com/
and more details on the registration form here - https://form.jotform.com/82204481032950
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE THIRD EVENT
Held Sunday 19th June 2022
Thanks to Lance Leslie-Smith and Jo Wildman for running this event so smoothly!
NEXT TOURNAMENTS AT KENSINGTON - Sundays 10th and 31st July
Here is the link to the crosstables - https://chess-results.com/tnr645941.aspx?lan=1
Prizes: Open 1st/2nd/3rd - £117 each 5/6 - GM Stuart C Conquest, GM Eldar Gasanov & CM Thomas Villiers. Rating Category Prize (U1800) - £50 - 4.5/6 Timofei Krassel Best Game Prize - TBC.
Prizes: Major U1700 1st Joint = £50 each = Zoran Dimitrijevic, Junyi Zhang, Dhriti Anand. Rating Category Prize U1350 - £50 = Almoaether Moath Abdullah Saad
Prizes: Minor U1450 Joint 1st - £75 each = Orest Stus and Sujan Nargund. Rating Category Prize - U1200 - £25 each = Veeturi Yashvardhan and Theo Cleanis
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE SECOND EVENT
Held 29th May 2022
An incredibly strong turnout this Sunday! Thanks to all who played and to Lance Leslie-Smith, Rob Hammond, Jo Wildman, Andrey Masterskikh and Raghava Krishna for running the tournament so smoothly.
OPEN
1st - £200 - GM Stuart Conquest, 2nd= £30 each - Abhinav Reddy Bathula, IM Antanas Zapolskis, Ayman Mahmoud, GM Alexander Cherniaev & Stanley Badacsonyi (plus Best Game Prize), Rating Category Prize - £50 - Connor Clarke.
[White "Badacsonyi, Stanley"]
[Black "Bonn, Thomas"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1745"]
[BlackElo "2181"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bf4 a6 4. e3 b5 5. Nf3 e6 6. Bd3 Bb7 7. O-O c5 8. dxc5
Bxc5 9. Re1 b4 10. Nb1 O-O 11. h3 Nc6 12. Nbd2 Qb6 13. Nb3 Be7 14. Qe2 a5 15.
Rad1 a4 16. Nbd4 Nxd4 17. exd4 Ba6 18. Ne5 Bxd3 19. Rxd3 Rac8 20. c3 bxc3 21.
bxc3 a3 22. Rc1 Qb5 23. Bh6 Rb8 24. Bg5 Rb7 25. c4 dxc4 26. Rxc4 Nd5 27. Bxe7
Nxe7 28. Rb3 Qa6 29. Qc2 Nd5 30. Rc8 Rxb3 31. Rxf8+ Kxf8 32. Qxb3 Qa7 33. Nc6
Qc7 34. Qxa3+ Ke8 35. Qa8+ Kd7 36. Ne5+ Ke7 37. g3 g6 38. Qg8 Kf6 39. Qh8+ Ke7
40. Qxh7 Qc1+ 41. Kh2 1-0
[White "Large, Peter G"]
[Black "Badacsonyi, Stanley"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2238"]
[BlackElo "1745"]
1. Nf3 Nf6 2. b3 g6 3. Bb2 Bg7 4. d4 d6 5. e3 O-O 6. Be2 c5 7. c4 Nc6 8. O-O
Re8 9. Nc3 a6 10. d5 Nb8 11. Qd2 Bg4 12. Rad1 b5 13. cxb5 axb5 14. Bxb5 Bxf3
15. gxf3 Nbd7 16. a4 e6 17. dxe6 Rxe6 18. Bxd7 Nxd7 19. f4 Qh4 20. Kh1 Nf6 21.
f3 Rae8 22. Rde1 Nh5 23. Ne4 Rxe4 24. fxe4 Ng3+ 25. Kg2 Nxf1 26. Rxf1 Bxb2 27.
Qxb2 Rxe4 28. Qd2 Qg4+ 29. Kh1 Qh3 30. Re1 Qf3+ 31. Kg1 Qg4+ 32. Kf2 Qh4+ 33.
Kf3 f5 34. Rg1 Qh5+ 35. Kg2 Qg4+ 36. Kf2 Qh4+ 37. Kf3 Qh3+ 38. Rg3 Qf1+ 39. Qf2
Qd1+ 40. Kg2 Qxb3 41. a5 Ra4 42. Qf3 Rxa5 43. Qc6 Ra2+ 44. Kh3 Qe6 45. Qc7 Ra8
46. Kh4 Rc8 47. Qb7 c4 48. Kg5 Kh8 49. Kh6 g5+ 50. Kh5 Qg6# 0-1
UNDER 1700
1st= - £75 each - Nina Tiagunova (pictured above) & ACM Dildarav Lishoy Gengis Paratazham, Rating Category Prize - £50 - Channing Li 4/6.
UNDER 1450
1st - £100 - Gabriel Bernard 5.5/6 2nd - £50 - Ayan Pradhan (pictured above) 5/6 Rating Category Prize - £50 - Ethan Dong 5/6.
PRIZEWINNERS FROM THE FIRST EVENT
Held Sunday 1st May 2022
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Full results are here (check the top of the page for prizewinners) - https://chess-results.com/tnr626091.aspx?lan=1&art=0&turdet=YES&flag=30
Thanks to Ellina for making this possible, Arbiters Rob Hammond and Jo Wildman for running the tournament and to Andrey for his assistance. Arbiter Lance Leslie Smith did all the pre and post tournament admin including rating!
To claim your prize for any event simply write to adamraoof@gmail.com with your bank details.
Here are Brendan O’Gorman’s excellent photos from the tournament - https://brendanogorman.smugmug.com/Chess/2022/Kensington-Rapid-1-May-2022
OPEN
1st - £200 Mohammed Aayan Ismail 6/6! 2nd - £100 Mikhail Sedykh 5/6 3rd - £17 each Ayman Mahmoud, Peter Large and Ieuan Ward 4.5/6
Rating prize = Best performance under FIDE 1799 - £50 Abhinav Reddy Bathula and Kumar Balahari Bharat £25 each.
UNDER 1700
Prizes (Under 1700): 1st - £75 each to Supratit Banerjee and Livio Cancedda-Dupuis 5.5/6
Rating Prize: Best performance under FIDE 1320. - £50 to Martin Scott 3.5/6
UNDER 1450
Prizes (Under 1450): 1st - £100 Rui Pedro Alves 6/6! 2nd - £50 Dave Nelson 5/6
Rating Prize: Best performance under FIDE 1100 - Dairi Ramsey and Peter Hazell £25 each 4/6
Love the venue! Such a great atmosphere!!