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)
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 (completed)
White | vs | Black |
---|---|---|
Atila Besceli | 0 - 1 | Andrew Bowler |
Dominic Watson | 1 - 0 | Michael Page |
Adrian Elwin | 1 - 0 | James Alexander |
Eoin Tweeddale | 1 - 0 | Matthew Jacques |
Fourth round (completed)
White | vs | Black |
---|---|---|
Dominic Watson | 0 - 1 | Andrew Bowler |
Eoin Tweeddale | 1 - 0 | Adrian Elwin |
Final (completed)
White | vs | Black |
---|---|---|
Eoin Tweeddale | 1 - 0 | Andrew Bowler |
Plate
The knockout plate is a knockout tournament for those players knocked out of the first round of the main event.
First round plate (completed)
White | vs | Black |
---|---|---|
Alan Heath | ½ - ½ | John McNamara |
Sumit Bhalla | 0 - 1 | John McKeon |
Steven Wayne | - | Nigel Collins |
Robert Whiteside | w/o - def | elliot-long |
John McNamara | 0 - 1 | Alan Heath |
Second round (completed)
White | vs | Black |
---|---|---|
Alan Heath | 1 - 0 | Steven Wayne |
Robert Whiteside | 1 - 0 | John McKeon |
Plate final (completed)
White | vs | Black |
---|---|---|
Robert Whiteside | 1 - 0 | Alan Heath |