IX Open Internacional Semana Santa San Vicente del Raspeig Costa Blanca 2025!

[Nick Burrows]

Ivanchuk continues his run of playing Englands finest, this time it's bingo for Adam Ashton

https://chess-results.com/tnr1010756.as ... NG&flag=30

A massive ENG contingent:

43 GM Gormally Daniel W 2428 ENG 1
100 FM Lohia Sohum 2354 ENG
146 FM Ashton Adam G 2280 ENG 1
189 Zheng Harry Z 2210 ENG 1
279 Pereslavtsev Alexandr 2108 ENG 0
302 CM Arnott Jonathan W 2080 ENG 0
305 Verbytski Oleg 2077 ENG 0
321 He Tom Junde 2054 ENG 0
323 Leah Tom 2054 ENG 0
343 Honey Luke Anthony 2033 ENG 0
369 Lishoy Gengis Paratazham Dildarav 2000 ENG
444 Davis Cameron 1932 ENG 0
457 Hopkins Kit W 1918 ENG 0
469 Hu Junyan 1908 ENG ½
485 Brown Kevin M 1874 ENG 0
490 Shivakumar Akshath 1864 ENG
493 Ding Yiwen 1847 ENG 0
508 WCM Ashton Alannah 1829 ENG 0
510 Bennett Max 1824 ENG 0
521 Ding Yicheng 1782 ENG 0
523 Whittington Reece 1771 ENG 0
532 Woozeer Seth 1712 ENG 0

[Mick Norris]

Good luck Adam

Zheng v Gormally is an unfortunate pairing

[LawrenceCooper]

Hopefully the 39 defaults in round 1 will encourage the organisers to consider some form of pre-registration at future events.

[Ian Thompson]

Hopefully the 39 defaults in round 1 will encourage the organisers to consider some form of pre-registration at future events.

There's nothing unusual about large numbers of defaults in Spanish tournaments. I'm pretty sure I made a comment about it happening in a tournament I played in a few years ago - almost 1/3 of the round 1 games were defaults.

[Leonard Barden]

Hopefully the 39 defaults in round 1 will encourage the organisers to consider some form of pre-registration at future events.

There's nothing unusual about large numbers of defaults in Spanish tournaments. I'm pretty sure I made a comment about it happening in a tournament I played in a few years ago - almost 1/3 of the round 1 games were defaults.

Good luck in Bangkok round six tomorrow, Ian. Third with 3/5 to Nigel Short and Stephen Gordon among the English contingent doesn't sound bad, especially since your only loss according to Chess Results was apparently a round three default (what happened there?).
A shame that your round six game against Australian IM Khamatgaleev misses the lichess live board cut by one (24 to 23) as I and other Forum members would have tuned in to it.

[Ian Thompson]

Good luck in Bangkok round six tomorrow, Ian. Third with 3/5 to Nigel Short and Stephen Gordon among the English contingent doesn't sound bad, especially since your only loss according to Chess Results was apparently a round three default (what happened there?).

Illness. I got a bad cold the day before the tournament began which still hasn't cleared completely. I decided to risk playing in round 1 as half-point byes weren't permitted in the first round. I got lucky as my opponent blundered 2 pawns on move 9, turned that into a piece and a pawn on move 11 and resigned on move 15 after about 45 minutes play. I'd have struggled if it had been a long game, so I decided to take a half-point bye in round 2 and then a zero point bye in round 3.

[LawrenceCooper]

Gormally-Ivanchuk in round 5: https://lichess.org/broadcast/ix-open-s ... F/7LCIDfSg

[Kevin Thurlow]

"Gormally-Ivanchuk "

Well done Danny! Was Ivanchuk wearing the same top as he did in Reykjavik?

[Nick Burrows]

Freddy Gordon's recent form has been stellar, and has started well here:

https://chess-results.com/tnr1010756.as ... =30&snr=59