£200 - First £150 - Second £100 - ThirdCentral London Chess Congress at Imperial College - 6-8 November 2026 - OPEN Imperial College Union, Beit Quadrangle, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2BB| Organizer(s) | John Sargent, 6001424 |
| Federation | England ( ENG ) |
| Tournament director | John Sargent, 6001424 |
| Chief Arbiter | IA Adam Raoof, 405230 |
| Deputy Chief Arbiter | FA Rob Hammond, 496570 |
| Time control (Standard) | 90 + 30 SIPM / 90 + 30 SIPM |
| Number of rounds | 5 |
| Tournament type | Swiss-System |
| Rating calculation | Rating national, Rating international |
| FIDE-Event-ID | 503503 |
| Date | 2026/11/06 to 2026/11/08 |
| Rating-Ø / Average age | 1951 / 30 |
| Pairing program | Swiss-Manager from Heinz Herzog, Swiss-Manager tournamentfile |
Last update 06.11.2026 09:34:07, Creator/Last Upload: chessengland.com
| Tournament selection | November 2026 : Open, Major (U2000), Minor (U1650) |
| Links | GoogleMaps, Enter Here!, Link with tournament calendar |
| Parameters | No tournament details, no flags
, Link with tournament calendar |
| Lists | Starting rank, Alphabetical list, Statistics, Alphabetical list all groups, Playing schedule |
| Excel and Print | Export to Excel (.xlsx), Export to PDF-File, QR-Codes |
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Starting rank
| No. | | | Name | ID | FideID | FED | RtgI | RtgN | sex |
| 1 | | IM | Balaji, Aaravamudhan | 289709 | 436224 | ENG | 2321 | 2418 | |
| 2 | | CM | Finn, Peter | 285268 | 432156 | ENG | 2212 | 2297 | |
| 3 | | CM | Lau, Luke | 353515 | 6002226 | HKG | 2206 | 2214 | |
| 4 | | | Li, Harry | 262448 | 430145 | ENG | 2196 | 2289 | |
| 5 | | CM | Lentzos, Ioannis | 294533 | 4255470 | GRE | 2166 | 2249 | |
| 6 | | | Verma, Aditya | 282441 | 426202 | ENG | 2162 | 2244 | |
| 7 | | | Majeed, Haroon | 329127 | 343401902 | ENG | 2143 | 2205 | |
| 8 | | | Hill, Alistair | 220756 | 432407 | ENG | 2142 | 2195 | |
| 9 | | | Mesropyan, Hayk | 342996 | 499455 | ENG | 2137 | 2213 | |
| 10 | | | Malinovskii, Ilia | 319360 | 24146374 | ENG | 2134 | 2190 | |
| 11 | | | Farrand, Tom | 110451 | 406457 | ENG | 2125 | 2133 | |
| 12 | | | Wilks, Simon | 263862 | 427357 | ENG | 2096 | 2217 | |
| 13 | | | Stewart, Ashley | 258609 | 419001 | ENG | 2091 | 2254 | |
| 14 | | | Tozer, Philip A | 120561 | 419982 | ENG | 2084 | 2102 | |
| 15 | | AIM | Sanitt, Ethan | 283795 | 427462 | ENG | 2083 | 2172 | |
| 16 | | FM | Oragwu, Chukwunonso | 330839 | 8501254 | NGR | 2082 | 2265 | |
| 17 | | | Bathula, Abhinav Reddy | 321911 | 35005693 | IND | 2062 | 2261 | |
| 18 | | | Jain, Gautam R | 276071 | 425311 | ENG | 2053 | 2178 | |
| 19 | | WCM | Ciocan, Maria-Alexandra | 327941 | 1227130 | ROU | 2010 | 2137 | w |
| 20 | | | Acres, Joshua | 375944 | 343467555 | ENG | 2003 | 1961 | |
| 21 | | AIM | Chua, Sebastien | 360040 | 5727421 | MAS | 2000 | 2134 | |
| 22 | | | Davison, Chris | 260370 | 407801 | ENG | 1987 | 2114 | |
| 23 | | | Vaddhireddy, Sai | 342608 | 499560 | ENG | 1986 | 2070 | |
| 24 | | | Xaxiris, Evangelos | 283514 | 4206720 | GRE | 1975 | 2051 | |
| 25 | | | Briggs, John Nicholas | 107270 | 427691 | ENG | 1971 | 2052 | |
| 26 | | | Salsac, Eric | 293639 | 15600211 | IRL | 1965 | 0 | |
| 27 | | | Collopy, Robert | 283116 | 457159 | ENG | 1943 | 1966 | |
| 28 | | | Cannon, Richard J | 103730 | 408670 | ENG | 1937 | 2033 | |
| 29 | | | Chan, Ryames | 351872 | 343471013 | ENG | 1889 | 1734 | |
| 30 | | | Hurley, Jake | 309879 | 1804928 | WLS | 1867 | 0 | |
| 31 | | | Muhunthan, Charukgan | 291953 | 456365 | ENG | 1864 | 1984 | |
| 32 | | | Kumaresan, Darshan | 290658 | 442330 | ENG | 1837 | 1912 | |
| 33 | | | Blackwell, Henry | 366261 | 495301 | ENG | 1826 | 1843 | |
| 34 | | | Wong, Eddie | 381586 | 343493335 | ENG | 1805 | 1734 | |
| 35 | | | Reddy, Avinash | 372977 | 35816325 | MAS | 1802 | 1979 | |
| 36 | | | Mathompat, Rajyeshwar Ramesh | 349453 | 33323852 | IND | 1800 | 1972 | |
| 37 | | | Xu, Nuo | 0 | | CHN | 0 | 1800 | |
| 38 | | WCM | Sheikh, Anum | 294266 | 436690 | ENG | 1775 | 1829 | w |
| 39 | | | Sandbrink, Kai | 351968 | 1332244 | SUI | 1767 | 1810 | |
| 40 | | | Martin-Lucas, John | 390628 | 585003530 | ENG | 0 | 1744 | |
| 41 | | | Sood, Vineet | 244205 | 343111543 | ENG | 1732 | 1730 | |
| 42 | | | Bezzini, Matteo B | 307012 | 343436250 | ENG | 1686 | 1892 | |
| 43 | | AFM | Yen, Yu Ting | 391398 | 16305566 | TPE | 1545 | 1896 | |
| 44 | | | Wolfe, Oliver | 303270 | 451649 | ENG | 0 | 0 | |
| 45 | | | Zukas, Paulius | 0 | 12882445 | LTU | 0 | 0 | |
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