2025 Open Knockout
- Tournament director:
- Adrian Elwin
- Time control:
- Time control is game in 80 minutes with a 10 secs/move 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.
Pending results
The following results are pending for First round draw. Please arrange your games as soon as possible.
Player 1 | vs | Player 2 |
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George Ward | vs | Matthew Jacques |
James Alexander | vs | Adrian Elwin |
Michael Page | vs | Florin Hristea |
Giacomo Lorenzini | vs | Dominic Bartram |
Robert Whiteside | vs | Dave Wells |
John McKeon | vs | Giuseppe Spigapiena |
Colin Solloway | vs | Vincent Edwards |
Andrew Bowler | vs | Graham Smith |
Guilherme Rezende | vs | Richard Keane |
First round draw (active)
Plate
The knockout plate is a knockout tournament for those players knocked out of the first round of the main event.