Scarborough Chess Congress 2025 – Open LIVE

The Scarborough Chess Congress 2025 will take place from October 24 to October 26 in Scarborough, England. The tournament has 6 categories – Open, Challengers, Major, Intermediate, Minor, and Foundation. The Open section is a 5-round Swiss system tournament with a time control of 110 min + 10 sec/move. For more events from England, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The top-seeded players are FM Lorenzo Fava (2489), FM Stanley Badacsonyi (2387), GM Nigel Davies (2362), Toby Quaite (2261), FM David Walker (2254), Maksym Larchikov (2217), Samuel Milson (2214), Arya Cont (2203), Robert McLean (2202), Ian Dutton (2183), Bernard Chan (2182), Oscar Pollack (2180), Andrei Ciuravin (2173), Alan Peart (2169), Virgil Szekely (2168). Scroll down for the full participants list.

Categories: Challengers
More: 49th BWCI Guernsey International Chess Festival – Challengers / 49th BWCI Guernsey International Chess Festival – Open

Scarborough Chess Congress 2025 – Open Participants

No.		Name	ФЕД	Rtg
1	FM	Fava, Lorenzo	ITA	2489
2	FM	Badacsonyi, Stanley	ENG	2387
3	GM	Davies, Nigel	ENG	2362
4		Quaite, Toby	ENG	2261
5	FM	Walker, David	ENG	2254
6		Larchikov, Maksym	UKR	2217
7		Milson, Samuel	ENG	2214
8		Cont, Arya	ENG	2203
9		McLean, Robert	ENG	2202
10		Dutton, Ian	ENG	2183
11		Chan, Bernard	MAS	2182
12		Pollack, Oscar	ENG	2180
13		Ciuravin, Andrei	ENG	2173
14		Peart, Alan	ENG	2169
15		Szekely, Virgil	ROU	2168
16		Surtees, Mike	ENG	2165
17		Mitchell, Martin	SCO	2159
18	FM	Walker, Martin	ENG	2155
19		Rughani, Mahin	ENG	2151
20		Ganti, Shriaansh	ENG	2143
21		Gomez, Daniel	ENG	2138
22		Jakhria, Kushal	ENG	2134
23		Birtwistle, Nigel	ENG	2130
24		Jaunooby, Ali	ENG	2129
25		Samarasinghe, Jude Ranga	SRI	2128
26		Varley, Joe	ENG	2126
27		Klimchik, Alexandr	ENG	2123
28		Tompson, John	ENG	2113
29		Hutchinson, Paul	ENG	2105
30		Armstrong, Malcolm	ENG	2074
31		Edwards-Wright, Miles	ENG	2073
32		Wise, David	ENG	2071
33		Melia, Alfie	ENG	2065
34		Heritage, Jamie	ENG	2059
35		Phillips, David	ENG	2059
36		Hall, James	ENG	2052
37		Ekanem, Nathan	NGR	2051
38		Rogerson, Mark	ENG	2050
39		Vaddhireddy, Sai	ENG	2043
40		Harkness, Bryan	ENG	2042
41		Billings, Alex J	ENG	2035
42		Berger, Justin	FRA	2030
43		Hepworth, Peter	ENG	2030
44		Shankar, Yash	SCO	2027
45	WFM	Longson, Sarah	ENG	2024
46		Collinson, Mark	ENG	2013
47		Ponting, Andrew	ENG	2012
48		Ridge, Michael	SCO	2011
49		Cast, Julian	ENG	2006
50		Barwick, Carmel	ENG	2004
51		Gardiner, Harry	ENG	1985
52		Keely, Leo	ENG	1974
53		Anjulan, Ashwin	ENG	1969
54		Cowan, Richard	ENG	1962
55		Kilshaw, Joseph	ENG	1949
56		Booth, Steven	ENG	1924
57		Griffin-Young, Sebastian	ENG	1903
58		Layhe, Simon	ENG	1903
59		Ronald, Ted	ENG	1887
60		Ilett, Raymond	ENG	1861
61		Mkpadi, Michael	ENG	1708