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Edinburgh Congress 2018
Friday 6th April to Sunday 8th April (3 day event)
St Thomas of Aquin's High School, Chalmers Street, Edinburgh
Time Controls: Regular | Rounds: 5 | Entry Form
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The 2018 Edinburgh Congress takes place at St Thomas of Aquins High School. Entry form now available.
The Premier will be FIDE rated.
All events use the same time controls: 90 minutes plus 30 second increment per move from move 1.
Entries to: Dave Watson stillgamedave70@gmail.com
The venue is suitable for disabled players including wheelchair users and is located in the city centre of Edinburgh. The top event, the Premier Event is FIDE rated. A group discount is available: when six players enter together, only pay for five entries. Most of the prizes including the prize fund has been increased, although the entry fee remains the same as last year. The time control for each of the four sections are 90 minutes plus 30 seconds per move. The top games in the Premier Event will be broadcast live during the Congress. A Chess Bookstall will be provided by Jim Fisher of Chess and Bridge, London.
Dave Stewart congress director
Entrants
Major [51]
Pnum | Name | Club / Federation | National Rating |
Stephen Mitchell | Slough | 1760 | |
14986 | Graham J Ashcroft | EN | 1885 |
6863 | WFM Joy Durno | NM | 1847 |
27885 | Sam J Gibbs | EN | 1830 |
15018 | Michael Ridge | ED | 1813 |
6393 | Alistair Stuart Watson | RS | 1810 |
Philip Kennedy | England | 1790 | |
4629 | Richard J P Kynoch | WD | 1783 |
4339 | Donald Heron | WD | 1775 |
9448 | Ewan Taylor | WD | 1775 |
4815 | Andrew MacQueen | GI | 1764 |
7590 | Richard G Carter | WD | 1759 |
6346 | David Wallace | WD | 1757 |
16048 | Brendan O`Gorman | EN | 1742 |
Nigel Hibberd | Germany | 1740 | |
4611 | James P R Kleboe | KM | 1729 |
5921 | Richard Scott | CS | 1716 |
4015 | Joe Galbraith | MU | 1702 |
9493 | David Logue | IC | 1702 |
Jake Thwaites | Edinburgh | 1700 (e) | |
21207 | Thomas Grundy | BS | 1684 |
4434 | Colin J Hutchison | ED | 1671 |
16223 | Chris Linskaill | SB | 1665 |
14798 | Philippe Gleizon | GM | 1657 |
12839 | Reinhard Schmerwitz | XK | 1656 |
10970 | Charles Nisbet | PH | 1639 |
3537 | William Clinton | LV | 1636 |
16245 | John S R Smith | ED | 1630 |
3020 | A Keith Aitchison | ED | 1618 |
Peter Laubenstein | Germany | 1617 | |
6460 | Ian P Whittaker | ED | 1607 |
26998 | John Phillips | IL | 1599 |
8249 | Bryan Tope | MU | 1599 |
14570 | Stuart MacQueen | GI | 1592 |
Nikola Baltov | England | 1590 | |
24448 | Andrew McMillan | OB | 1589 |
24360 | David Burke | NM | 1582 |
7921 | Gerry Brown | CS | 1567 |
15793 | Stuart Lampard | SW | 1544 |
28223 | Edvinas Volkovas | GU | 1523 |
22822 | Vipin Zamvar | ED | 1495 |
26695 | Matt Rounds | CS | 1488 |
11408 | Paul H MacDonald | GD | 1467 |
20808 | Adam Walkowiak | WD | 1467 |
27416 | Robert A Gibb | PY | 1450 |
4775 | Siegrun Macgilchrist | CK | 1448 |
22809 | Benjamin Ridge | TC | 1390 |
3872 | William Falconer | WD | 1370 |
17726 | Fergus Skillen | GU | 1367 |
13560 | Gilbert Alomenu | PY | 1347 |
25454 | Kalyan Sai Nandan Kante | NJ | 1291 |
Bishops [43]
Pnum | Name | Club / Federation | National Rating |
8570 | David A Hewitt | ST | 1584 |
Robert Mitcheson | England | 1580 | |
18928 | Martin Brejter | PY | 1574 |
18587 | Calum McGillivray | ED | 1556 |
21984 | Keith McDonald | MU | 1534 |
28184 | Iain Cumming | PH | 1520 |
10183 | Ian Washington | PR | 1512 |
27984 | Sam Coates | OB | 1511 |
Paul Doherty | England | 1510 | |
8748 | Graeme R Russell | BS | 1506 |
James Dessent | England | 1500 | |
11731 | James Turner | BS | 1491 |
28219 | Gwilym Morrison | DR | 1480 |
28183 | Andreas Drewer | CS | 1477 |
17737 | Jamie Hand | EU | 1467 |
11408 | Paul H MacDonald | GD | 1467 |
Kurt Moreby | England | 1460 | |
6223 | Malcolm W Theodoreson | SP | 1443 |
3774 | Peter J Doris | BS | 1421 |
5147 | Stuart McKinney | GY | 1411 |
Charles Costeloe | England | 1400 | |
9176 | James McConnachie | GY | 1399 |
3951 | Raymond Flood | DV | 1377 |
28514 | Jonathan C Fallman | EN | 1370 |
5582 | Colin C Paterson | PO | 1367 |
12329 | Francis Lauder | GS | 1361 |
24870 | Subhayu Banerjee | CH | 1359 |
4359 | Alistair A Hindle | EW | 1335 |
28476 | Daniel Shek | EN | 1317 |
26573 | Aleksandr Radevic | PO | 1308 |
5883 | Angus G Ruthven | CO | 1265 |
24480 | James Hartman | TC | 1256 |
16916 | Brian Fitzpatrick | PY | 1202 |
Pagamdulam Lundeejantsan | England | 1180 | |
27092 | Allan W Buchan | ED | 1173 |
23570 | Dietah Connolly Sams | TC | 1155 |
28189 | Craig Fay | PY | 1064 |
26866 | Andy Heron | PY | 1059 |
24287 | Ritvik Maheshwari | BD | 1056 |
25841 | Pranav Arcot | RG | 1032 |
24225 | David Galbraith | MU | 980 |
24181 | Thomas Wills | LV | 786 |
5975 | Gerard P Shields | LV | - |
Knights [49]
Pnum | Name | Club / Federation | National Rating |
27216 | Antoni Kusnierz | BS | 1395 |
10004 | Martin R Keen | KO | 1394 |
5643 | Gregor Pirrie | WD | 1364 |
5607 | Walter J Pearson | PH | 1342 |
Tipu Raza | glasgow polytechnic | 1290 (e) | |
4596 | David King | MU | 1267 |
14266 | Mark J Smith | ED | 1223 |
9443 | Mike Wallace | SB | 1204 |
Declan West | England | 1200 (e) | |
9743 | David Watson | CO | 1199 |
3648 | David Cubitt | ED | 1196 |
3046 | George C Anderson | CS | 1174 |
28232 | Marten Kats | CH | 1170 |
5862 | Desmond J Rowan | GI | 1169 |
Chris Patton | Pentland Hills | 1150 (e) | |
6443 | Ron N Whalen | EW | 1107 |
Martin Tudor | Pentland Hills | 1100 (e) | |
24406 | David A Fowler | GR | 1095 |
19395 | James Crawford | MU | 1090 |
17397 | Andrew McCulloch | GI | 1086 |
8243 | Brian O`Donnell | CS | 1067 |
13696 | Athol Macgilchrist | CK | 1050 |
3732 | Scott Dickson | GR | 1014 |
25210 | Joe Dobson | GH | 1001 |
27729 | Robert Carmichael | KC | 996 |
25273 | Alasdair Sandham | W3 | 978 |
27991 | Richard Hall | PY | 974 |
21007 | Robert S M Wilson | MU | 967 |
28513 | Jennifer Shelley | EN | 950 |
26317 | Sahib Kohli | GA | 943 |
26271 | Andrew Kennedy | NM | 884 |
25087 | Pranav Saravanan | AN | 862 |
6764 | William Walker | BB | 843 |
24911 | Sorcha Shepherd | ES | 803 |
26014 | Aiden M J Clarke | ES | 751 |
26961 | Anish Subramaniam | RG | 745 |
26018 | Richard Zhang | ES | 687 |
26318 | Alex Sevic | G2 | 625 |
19782 | David Newton | IV | 609 |
26248 | Logan Symons | EA | 576 |
26965 | Ananth Subramaniam | RG | 576 |
27839 | Callum Robertson | DR | 530 |
28276 | Ross Blackford | DR | 365 |
27691 | Ishan Kumar | GA | 182 |
19376 | Jonathan Livingstone | GU | - |
12499 | Gordon Greig | DL | - |
28505 | Graham Wardle | CH | - |
28511 | William James | ZZ | - |
27629 | Simon Shepherd | ER | - |
Premier [63]
Pnum | Name | Club / Federation | National Rating | Fide Rating |
25557 | IM Justin Tan | EU | 2457 | 2475 |
27765 | FM Sergio Adan Bermudez | EU | 2339 | 2340 |
28475 | FM Ritvars Reimanis | ER | 2335 | 2335 |
27451 | FM Calin Gheorghiu | EU | 2306 | 2331 |
24460 | IM Dietmar Kolbus | EN | 2290 | 2290 |
21574 | FM Murad Abdulla | BA | 2158 | 2277 |
Steven Jones | 207 | 2247 | ||
28313 | Felix Noetzel | EU | 2217 | 2217 |
15934 | Hamish Olson | BA | 2159 | 2193 |
3919 | David J Findlay | DV | 2154 | 2175 |
28433 | Walter Braun | XK | 2152 | 2152 |
5555 | IM Mark J L Orr | WD | 2084 | 2136 |
24398 | James E Moreby | EN | 2126 | 2126 |
5463 | George Neave | EW | 2155 | 2125 |
22884 | Ubong Samuel Archibong | GR | 2210 | 2125 |
3881 | Neil R Farrell | EW | 2070 | 2119 |
23819 | John Jarmany | EN | 2114 | 2114 |
22000 | Craig Whitfield | EN | 2170 | 2082 |
19640 | Declan Shafi | CH | 2023 | 2068 |
27862 | Dan Waller | EN | 2068 | 2068 |
15013 | CM Andrew D Green | ED | 2047 | 2063 |
23386 | Lennart Koehn | EK | 2087 | 2060 |
Malola Prasath | India | 186 | 2024 | |
20648 | Mark Cooke | BX | 2012 | 2011 |
11072 | Richard Birkett | IV | 1986 | 2008 |
5882 | Willie Rutherford | ED | 1903 | 1985 |
12890 | Neil Thomson | GI | 2023 | 1978 |
4238 | Graham M Hamilton | WD | 1962 | 1970 |
28508 | Yasmin Giles | EN | 1970 | 1970 |
9027 | Pat McInally | ER | 1963 | - |
26601 | Dennis Liu | EU | 1967 | 1960 |
18930 | Andrew Newton | IV | 1873 | 1947 |
14200 | Tom Donohue | HA | 1887 | 1943 |
3411 | Duncan A F Campbell | OB | 1899 | 1938 |
28393 | WFM Susan G Cooke | BX | 1954 | 1931 |
9024 | Jamie Mollison | BS | 1780 | 1931 |
3239 | Alan P Borwell | DV | 1891 | 1930 |
13554 | Peter Jaszkiwskyj | EN | 1928 | - |
6473 | Douglas Will | GR | 1894 | 1927 |
22894 | Raj Bhopal | ED | 1890 | 1926 |
14599 | Raymond Wynarczyk | EN | 1880 | 1926 |
5223 | Stephen G McQuillan | HA | 1780 | 1909 |
4482 | Alan Jelfs | EK | 1856 | 1907 |
22505 | Robert Kane | ED | 1889 | 1900 |
4866 | Ian A Marks | CC | 1865 | 1895 |
4558 | Craig Kennedy | LN | 1930 | 1889 |
5536 | Jim O`Neil | WD | 1823 | 1888 |
24271 | Max N Turner | BE | 1898 | 1887 |
12666 | Neil Irving | ST | 1879 | 1885 |
28173 | Stephen David Harvey | OB | 1802 | 1882 |
6336 | Duncan Walker | EW | 1761 | 1882 |
18892 | Chris James | DR | 1899 | 1876 |
4810 | Crawford T Macnab | CS | 1819 | 1869 |
22387 | Euan Gray | NJ | 1915 | 1863 |
23371 | Ben Volland | DL | 1706 | 1827 |
5828 | Stephen Robinson | AR | 1820 | 1818 |
23035 | Tariq Pasha | NJ | 1782 | 1798 |
27218 | Jallal Shahin | PY | 1815 | 1773 |
7563 | Nigel Chapman | BS | 1757 | 1756 |
23569 | Lukah Connolly Sams | TC | 1617 | 1751 |
27835 | Soren Jensen | XK | 1744 | 1744 |
16273 | Alice Lampard | TR | 1906 | 1668 |
28451 | Vitali Avagyan | ER | - | - |