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Edinburgh Congress 2019
Friday 5th April to Sunday 7th April (3 day event)
ST THOMAS OF AQUIN’S HIGH SCHOOL, CHALMERS STREET, Edinburgh, EH3 9ES
Time Controls: Regular | Rounds: 5 | Entry Form
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The 2019 Edinburgh Congress takes place April 5-7, 2019 at St Thomas of Aquins High School.
Entry form now available
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. 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.
Four Training Sessions, free of charge, will be available to Coaches mainly for Teachers and Parents on both Saturday and Sunday morning and afternoon from Sean Marsh of Chess in Schools and Communities.
Dave Stewart congress director
A Chess Scotland Chessbase.com Scottish Grand Prix qualifying event
Entrants
Premier [68]
Pnum | Name | Club / Federation | National Rating | Fide Rating |
12633 | GM Daniel Gormally | EN | 2478 | 2509 |
IM Michael Kopylov | Ukraine | 2414 | 2414 | |
29114 | IM Adam C Hunt | EN | 2398 | 2398 |
11217 | GM Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant | EW | 2336 | 2360 |
6191 | FM Alan W Tate | WD | 2368 | 2308 |
24460 | IM Dietmar Kolbus | EN | 2281 | 2285 |
Daniel Kopylov | Germany | 2280 | 2280 | |
21574 | FM Murad Abdulla | BA | 2256 | 2251 |
IM Claude Adrian | France | 2224 | 2224 | |
27912 | Yichen Han | EN | 2190 | 2190 |
19640 | Declan Shafi | CH | 2114 | 2134 |
3349 | FM Andrew B Burnett | WD | 2186 | 2134 |
3881 | Neil R Farrell | EW | 2099 | 2132 |
23819 | John Jarmany | EN | 2111 | 2111 |
22880 | Chukwuka Allor | KM | 2076 | 2110 |
5463 | George Neave | EW | 2102 | 2101 |
22884 | Ubong Samuel Archibong | GR | 2194 | 2100 |
23386 | Lennart Koehn | EK | 2134 | 2095 |
5555 | IM Mark J L Orr | WD | 2082 | 2089 |
Kai- Uwe Schmidt | Germany | 2070 | 2070 | |
26600 | Helge Magnussen | GU | 2099 | 2063 |
27862 | Dan Waller | EN | 2056 | 2056 |
Siegmund Koltoff | Germany | 2040 | 2040 | |
4365 | Stephen W Hogg | DV | 1960 | 2034 |
Leopold Adrian | France | 2027 | 2027 | |
26694 | Junhao Xian | GU | 1953 | 2020 |
11072 | Richard Birkett | IV | 1940 | 2010 |
22387 | Euan Gray | NJ | 1825 | 2000 |
24271 | Max N Turner | BE | 1961 | 1986 |
5223 | Stephen G McQuillan | HA | 1910 | 1975 |
12890 | Neil Thomson | GI | 2021 | 1965 |
16085 | Mike Chisholm | BS | 1898 | 1960 |
6623 | David A Robertson | DR | 1912 | 1954 |
29022 | Parthipan Raja | CO | 1950 | 1950 |
26048 | Andre Antunes | ED | 1832 | 1937 |
18930 | Andrew Newton | IV | 1952 | 1926 |
3411 | Duncan A F Campbell | OB | 1902 | 1921 |
12666 | Neil Irving | ST | 1904 | 1917 |
5076 | Lindsay A McGregor | ED | 1695 | 1917 |
3164 | David Begg | PH | 1824 | 1906 |
22894 | Raj Bhopal | ED | 1986 | 1900 |
14599 | Raymond Wynarczyk | EN | 1875 | 1895 |
29155 | Max Muskath | EN | 2120 | 1891 |
18892 | Chris James | DR | 1868 | 1888 |
5536 | Jim O`Neil | WD | 1766 | 1886 |
14894 | Ali Roy | CK | 1926 | 1885 |
14372 | Richard L Jennings | BA | 1984 | 1883 |
10019 | Rabindra Paul | CW | 1778 | 1877 |
22551 | Jake M Sanger | PW | 1840 | 1875 |
15018 | Michael Ridge | ED | 1848 | 1872 |
21948 | Harry Baxter | EN | 1880 | 1861 |
6336 | Duncan Walker | EW | 1797 | 1858 |
6473 | Douglas Will | GR | 1914 | 1856 |
17162 | Sam Gregory | CH | 1851 | 1854 |
23035 | Tariq Pasha | NJ | 1839 | 1850 |
29009 | Kristaps Baumanis | BS | 1845 | 1845 |
4482 | Alan Jelfs | RS | 1856 | 1840 |
29156 | Siddharth Gopakumar | EN | 1834 | 1834 |
22226 | Andrew Ward | SA | 1776 | 1809 |
23478 | Callum Smith | NJ | 1826 | 1802 |
26683 | Nicolas Skettos | PO | 1848 | 1802 |
27218 | Jalal Shaheen | PY | 1806 | 1787 |
22809 | Benjamin Ridge | TC | 1544 | 1734 |
7563 | Nigel Chapman | BS | 1741 | 1733 |
21604 | Andrew McCusker | HA | 1744 | 1726 |
24151 | Sambhav Chadha | BD | 1594 | 1671 |
27414 | Gwenole Le Feuvre | PR | 1612 | 1619 |
29153 | Lukas Zierahn | EN | - | - |
Major [58]
Pnum | Name | Club / Federation | National Rating |
22505 | Robert Kane | ED | 1866 |
4339 | Donald Heron | WD | 1838 |
4629 | Richard J P Kynoch | WD | 1830 |
6863 | WFM Joy Durno | NM | 1830 |
27885 | Sam J Gibbs | EN | 1830 |
8451 | Paul E Robson | EN | 1829 |
6393 | Alistair Stuart Watson | RS | 1824 |
6799 | WFM Carey A Groves | WD | 1821 |
9448 | Ewan Taylor | WD | 1814 |
15971 | Phil Thomas | RS | 1812 |
11929 | Alistair K J MacNaughton | CO | 1810 |
8860 | Derek McCormack | PA | 1780 |
28173 | Stephen David Harvey | OB | 1774 |
4815 | Andrew MacQueen | GI | 1769 |
23308 | Holden Davis | AF | 1763 |
5827 | Martin E Robinson | EW | 1760 |
21207 | Thomas Grundy | BS | 1743 |
15990 | Daniel R Thomas | HA | 1705 |
4230 | David G Hall | PR | 1704 |
15458 | Michael Ash | MU | 1689 |
17393 | Mike P Scott | GY | 1673 |
14798 | Philippe Gleizon | GM | 1671 |
16223 | Chris Linskaill | SB | 1670 |
3020 | A Keith Aitchison | ED | 1664 |
8249 | Bryan Tope | MU | 1663 |
5921 | Richard Scott | CS | 1654 |
Reinhard Schmerwitz | Germany | 1652 | |
Nikola Baltov | Bulgaria | 1645 | |
28179 | Neil Fleming | WD | 1640 |
9715 | Robert P C Mitcheson | EN | 1630 |
Lucien Adrian | France | 1627 | |
5670 | David A Potts | BH | 1616 |
4434 | Colin J Hutchison | ED | 1614 |
18587 | Calum McGillivray | ED | 1612 |
25454 | Kalyan Sai Nandan Kante | NJ | 1600 |
Indrek Reiland | Ednburgh Chess Club | 1591 | |
20808 | Adam Walkowiak | WD | 1570 |
24235 | Jan Barron-Majerik | IV | 1563 |
24448 | Andrew McMillan | OB | 1558 |
25852 | Selvarattinam Gengaharan Somupillai | LN | 1547 |
22822 | Vipin Zamvar | ED | 1512 |
24546 | Jonathan McKay | NJ | 1510 |
3872 | William Falconer | WD | 1507 |
17852 | John M Pearston | CN | 1495 |
27453 | Chihon Ley P. | EU | 1494 |
28514 | Jonathan C Fallman | ED | 1487 |
Ian Matthew | Portsmouth | 1470 | |
23570 | Dietah Connolly Sams | TC | 1440 |
24480 | James Hartman | TC | 1410 |
28904 | Daniel Ranson | ED | 1399 |
24287 | Ritvik Maheshwari | BD | 1364 |
25273 | Alasdair Sandham | GR | 1308 |
28016 | Sanjith Madhavan | EK | 1170 |
26999 | Tai Wilson | NJ | 872 |
28930 | Nikitas Angeletos Chrysaitis | EU | - |
28314 | Darima Donitova | EU | - |
29148 | Stuart Ballantyne | SA | - |
29036 | Snorri Kristjansson | ED | - |
Bishops [47]
Pnum | Name | Club / Federation | National Rating |
9972 | Michael J Roth | PR | 1597 |
3785 | Richard K Dowling | CO | 1596 |
Mark Moorman | USA | 1578 | |
18928 | Martin Brejter | ED | 1573 |
28848 | Isaac Browning | WD | 1573 |
Louise Adrian | France | 1564 | |
11330 | Chris Perkin | GM | 1544 |
10970 | Charles Nisbet | PH | 1533 |
7921 | Gerry Brown | CS | 1524 |
25240 | David Houston | HA | 1520 |
4976 | Ivor McConnell | BN | 1510 |
17737 | Jamie Hand | EU | 1501 |
15294 | Simon Kerridge | BD | 1494 |
16715 | David Teague | EN | 1490 |
11404 | Daniel Howe | EN | 1470 |
10183 | Ian Washington | PR | 1468 |
Martin Beardsley | Gosforth | 1460 | |
3774 | Peter J Doris | BS | 1456 |
28184 | Iain Cumming | PH | 1442 |
Noel Boustred | Gosforth | 1430 | |
5270 | Patrick M Miller | CS | 1417 |
8748 | Graeme R Russell | BS | 1417 |
4359 | Alistair A Hindle | EW | 1396 |
4064 | Steve Gibson | MU | 1385 |
24918 | Ruairidh McKay | MU | 1380 |
25841 | Pranav Arcot | RG | 1376 |
22192 | Vagif Ramazanov | BA | 1370 |
9176 | James McConnachie | GY | 1358 |
13560 | Gilbert Alomenu | PY | 1354 |
28189 | Craig Fay | PY | 1350 |
23117 | Michael Jessing | WD | 1350 |
27216 | Antoni Kusnierz | BS | 1342 |
26103 | Murdo McLaurin | FC | 1308 |
15264 | Steven Galbraith | ED | 1284 |
6155 | Joseph P M Stuart | PB | 1237 |
14015 | Brian Stokes | BD | 1198 |
27780 | Lee Bishop | WD | 1180 |
11565 | James Keegan | AR | 1162 |
16916 | Brian Fitzpatrick | PY | 1148 |
25245 | Edward McCosh | WD | 1083 |
7603 | John Lynch | CH | 1064 |
26866 | Andy Heron | PY | 988 |
5254 | Peter D Middleton | SB | 982 |
27691 | Ishan Kumar | LZ | 862 |
27839 | Callum Robertson | DR | 674 |
27913 | Andrew Whalley | ER | - |
29131 | Janis Briksis | GW | - |
Knights [64]
Pnum | Name | Club / Federation | National Rating |
12499 | Gordon Greig | DL | 1396 |
5147 | Stuart McKinney | GY | 1376 |
5650 | William G C Platts | ED | 1369 |
27698 | Graham Wilson | CO | 1362 |
15536 | Derek W Coope | OB | 1362 |
3648 | David Cubitt | ED | 1356 |
4379 | Iain D Hope | MU | 1355 |
5607 | Walter J Pearson | PH | 1334 |
27082 | Aravind Kumar | WD | 1314 |
27092 | Allan W Buchan | ED | 1252 |
5862 | Desmond J Rowan | GI | 1228 |
28511 | William James | EU | 1228 |
28180 | David Ainsworth | CO | 1222 |
9443 | Mike Wallace | SB | 1210 |
Gary Clarke | Gosforth | 1210 | |
14266 | Mark J Smith | ED | 1210 |
3046 | George C Anderson | CS | 1196 |
5883 | Angus G Ruthven | CO | 1188 |
9743 | David Watson | CO | 1168 |
9032 | Daniel H Boyle | BB | 1128 |
4415 | William Humphries | CC | 1127 |
17397 | Andrew McCulloch | GI | 1108 |
28523 | Jim O`Neill | PY | 1108 |
24406 | David A Fowler | GR | 1104 |
26599 | Thor Saemundsson | HA | 1098 |
6443 | Ron N Whalen | EW | 1091 |
11421 | Fergus J G Thomson | PH | 1074 |
10275 | Malcolm MacMillan | BA | 1074 |
12422 | Donald Scarr | PH | 1025 |
25087 | Pranav Saravanan | NJ | 1006 |
27574 | Oliver Whalley | SM | 1006 |
26965 | Ananth Subramaniam | RG | 986 |
26276 | Finlay J A Gibb | NJ | 972 |
21007 | Robert S M Wilson | MU | 943 |
Diana Kopylov | Germany | 935 | |
8243 | Brian O`Donnell | CS | 917 |
26961 | Anish Subramaniam | RG | 914 |
24538 | Florence Wilson | TC | 898 |
28004 | Alex MacDonald | GD | 898 |
28513 | Jennifer Shelley | ED | 897 |
9746 | James D Crerar | CO | 894 |
14848 | Andy McCallum | CC | 865 |
25772 | Karthikeya Vundi | SM | 857 |
22843 | Scott Blackwell | PY | 848 |
6764 | William Walker | BB | 827 |
28642 | Rishab Anthuvan | LZ | 758 |
28862 | Hugh Thomson | CO | 701 |
26248 | Logan Symons | NB | 696 |
19782 | David Newton | IV | 653 |
28608 | Frederick Gordon | EA | 620 |
28276 | Ross Blackford | DR | 612 |
27789 | Kartike Sharan | LZ | 495 |
27788 | Aryan Munshi | LZ | 475 |
28466 | Nivedita Suyal | CO | 472 |
26615 | Zayd Khan | G2 | 458 |
27033 | Aksara Balakumar | GG | 450 |
27080 | Ibrahim Khan | G2 | 351 |
27791 | Kabir Kumar | LZ | 276 |
27841 | Rajkumar Anbu | LZ | 227 |
29053 | Tom Wardlaw | PR | - |
29008 | Olmo Velayos Hernando | ER | - |
29135 | James Morrison | ER | - |
28927 | Andrew Austin | BS | - |
29154 | Ivan Gerganov | ZZ | - |