The UK Open and Women’s Blitz Chess Championships 2022 were held on 3rd December in Royal Leamington Spa. The Open tournament was a 16-player round-robin event and the women’s championship was played in the same system, with 15 participants.
GM Jon Speelman and GM Eldar Gasanov tied for the top of the Open tournament scoring 12.5 points, each. The tie-break criteria favored Speelman who claimed two titles – UK Open Blitz Champion 2022 & English Blitz Champion 2022. Gasanov came second, and GM Mark Hebden won bronze with 11 points. Scroll down for final rankings
WGM Elmira Mirzoeva won the Women’s event with 12 points. However, 7-year-old Bodhana Sivanandan stole the show of the whole competition as she scored 11 points to claim silver medal and become joint UK Joint English Women’s Blitz Champion 2022 with Kamila Hryshchenko who had the same number of points but lower tiebreaks. With the impressive performance, Bodhana earned 328.4 blitz rating points! Scroll down for final rankings
Final rankings – UK Open Blitz Chess Championship 2022
Rk.
Name
FED
Rtg
Pts.
TB1
TB2
TB3
TB4
1
GM
Speelman Jon S
ENG
2532
12.5
0.5
87.3
5.5
2494
2
GM
Gasanov Eldar
UKR
2447
12.5
0.5
84.3
4.5
2500
3
GM
Hebden Mark L
ENG
2436
11
0
64.5
3
2403
4
Gordon Frederick
SCO
2067
10.5
0
73.3
4.5
2401
5
IM
Willow Jonah B
ENG
2300
9.5
1
62.3
4
2332
6
GM
Gormally Daniel W
ENG
2553
9.5
0
52.8
1.5
2315
7
FM
Han Yichen
NED
2323
8.5
0
54.3
2
2285
8
IM
Camacho Collados Jose
WLS
2280
8
0
51
3
2259
9
Boswell Jacob Connor
ENG
2017
7
0
35.5
1
2235
10
Onslow Alfie
ENG
2015
6.5
0
36.8
2
2206
11
Beardsworth Allan W
ENG
2160
5.5
0
29.5
1.5
2151
12
CM
Pein Jonathan
ENG
2225
5
0.5
24.3
1.5
2117
13
FM
Storey Charles H
ENG
2251
5
0.5
24.3
0.5
2115
14
Stubbs Oliver
ENG
2031
4
0
21
1
2080
15
Nicholas Koichi B
ENG
2116
3.5
0
26.8
2
2038
16
Tahmankar Mandar
IND
2097
1.5
0
10
0.5
1884
.
Final rankings – UK Women’s Blitz Chess Championship 2022
Rk.
Name
FED
Rtg
Pts.
TB1
TB2
TB3
1
WGM
Mirzoeva Elmira
FID
2120
12
0
79.5
7
2
Sivanandan Bodhana
ENG
1556
11
1
70.3
6
3
Hryshchenko Kamila
ENG
2039
11
0
62.5
5
4
Duessler Stefanie
GER
2014
8.5
0.5
52
4
5
WFM
Grigoryan Meri
ENG
1918
8.5
0.5
46.8
3.5
6
Orlovska Madara
LAT
2045
8
1
41.3
2
7
WFM
Henderson De La Fuente Andrea
AND
1889
8
0
45.5
3.5
8
WFM
Head Louise
ENG
1915
7.5
0
37.3
2
9
Dicen Elis Denele
ENG
1618
7
0
38.3
3
10
Pyun Lindsay
ENG
1515
5.5
1
28.3
2.5
11
Subramanian Anusha
ENG
1740
5.5
0
29
2
12
Karas Eugenia
ENG
1898
5
0
24.8
1.5
13
WIM
Regan Natasha K
ENG
1873
4
0
20
1
14
Somton Anita
ENG
1761
3.5
0
17.3
1.5
15
Fuchs Louison
FRA
1494
0
0
0
0