2024 Open Knockout
- Tournament director:
- Adrian Elwin
- Time control:
- 35 moves in 70 minutes plus 10 minutes to finish the game together with a 10 second increment from move 1.
- Tournament rules:
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Toss for colour. If the first game is drawn, play a second game with colours reversed at the same time control.
If that game is also drawn, play a pair of games, one with white, one with black, with 20 minutes plus 10 seconds increment each per game.
If the score is 1-all, play a pair of games with 7 minutes plus 3 seconds increment each per game.
If those are also 1-all. repeat the 7+3 pairs of games until a winner emerges. - Results reporting:
- Report your results to [email protected] stating the date of the match, tournament name, pairing, colours and result.
Main event
See details for the "main event" below and for the "Plate" sub-event for those who are knocked out in the first round further below.
First round draw (completed)
White | vs | Black |
---|---|---|
Vincent Edwards | w/o - def | David Webber |
Ashish Ganatra | Michael Page | |
Eoin Tweeddale | 1 - 0 | Nick Pitts-Tucker |
Atila Besceli | 1 - 0 | John McNamara |
Adrian Elwin | 1 - 0 | Elliot Long |
George Ward | 1 - 0 | Robert Whiteside |
Dave Wells | 1 - 0 | Nigel Collins |
James Alexander | 1 - 0 | Steven Wayne |
Matthew Jacques | ½ - ½ | John McKeon |
Alan Heath | 0 - 1 | Dominic Watson |
Sumit Bhalla | 0 - 1 | Andrew Bowler |
John McKeon | 0 - 1 | Matthew Jacques |
Second Round Draw (completed)
Second round abandoned. Moving straight to the third round!
White | vs | Black | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Vincent Edwards | 0 - 1 | James Alexander | ||
George Ward | 0 - 1 | Adrian Elwin | ||
Eoin Tweeddale | 1 - 0 | Dave Wells | ||
Atila Besceli | ||||
Michael Page | ||||
Matthew Jacques | ||||
Dominic Watson | ||||
Andrew Bowler |
Third Round Draw (active)
White | vs | Black |
---|---|---|
Atila Besceli | 0 - 1 | Andrew Bowler |
Dominic Watson | 1 - 0 | Michael Page |
Adrian Elwin | ½ - ½ | James Alexander |
Eoin Tweeddale | 1 - 0 | Matthew Jacques |
Final round
Round has not yet started.
Plate
The knockout plate is a knockout tournament for those players knocked out of the first round of the main event.
Pending results
The following results are pending for First round plate. Please arrange your games as soon as possible.
Player 1 | vs | Player 2 |
---|---|---|
Steven Wayne | vs | Nigel Collins |
Robert Whiteside | vs | elliot-long |
First round plate (active)
White | vs | Black |
---|---|---|
Alan Heath | ½ - ½ | John McNamara |
Sumit Bhalla | 0 - 1 | John McKeon |
Steven Wayne | - | Nigel Collins |
Robert Whiteside | - | elliot-long |
John McNamara | 0 - 1 | Alan Heath |
Plate final
Round has not yet started.