Michael Adams is the sole leader of the English Chess Championship 2025. After four rounds the legendary Grandmaster Michael Adams continues with perfect 4,0/4. Along the way Adams defeated Lion Lebedev, Kai Hanache, FM Stanley Badacsonyi, and GM Gawain Maroroa Jones.
Half a point behind the leader are Shreyas Royal, Nikita Vitiugov, Matthew J Wadsworth, Peter T Roberson, John Merriman. Next round will see high stakes pairings including Nikita Vitiugov – Michael Adams, John Merriman – Shreyas Royal, Matthew J Wadsworth – Peter T Roberson, and Gawain Maroroa Jones – John Emms.
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English Championship standings after R4
1
GM
Adams, Michael
4
2
GM
Royal, Shreyas
3.5
3
GM
Vitiugov, Nikita
3.5
4
IM
Wadsworth, Matthew J
3.5
5
IM
Roberson, Peter T
3.5
6
FM
Merriman, John
3.5
7
GM
Maroroa Jones, Gawain
3
8
IM
Clarke, Brandon Gi
3
9
IM
Willow, Jonah B
3
10
GM
Emms, John M
3
11
IM
Harvey, Marcus R
3
12
CM
Shearsby, Jude
3
13
FM
Badacsonyi, Stanley
3
14
GM
Ghasi, Ameet K
3
15
IM
Merry, Alan B
3
16
FM
Badacsonyi, Frankie
3
17
Carroll, Thomas
3
18
Merriman, James
3
19
IM
Bates, Richard A
3
20
Burrows, Martin P
2.5
21
FM
Richardson, John R
2.5
22
IM
Jackson, James P
2.5
23
CM
Khoury, Theo
2.5
24
GM
Hebden, Mark L
2.5
25
Jones, Steven A
2.5
26
CM
Zhao, George
2.5
27
Cont, Arya
2.5
28
FM
Martin, Lewis
2.5
29
CM
Villiers, Thomas
2.5
30
Pereslavtsev, Alexandr
2.5
31
Saunders, Aron
2
32
Mesropyan, Hayk
2
33
Verma, Aditya
2
34
Hanache, Kai
2
35
Yu, Rock
2
36
Larkin, Benjamin
2
37
Vaidyanathan, Adithya
2
38
CM
Murawski, Jan
2
39
Sachdeva, Ronit
2
40
Lebedev, Lion
2
41
Elgar, Tim
2
42
AIM
Norris, Zack
2
43
Verbytski, Oleg
2
44
Okhai, Shabir
2
45
Clarke, James
2
46
Mason, Donald J
2
47
Sasikumar, Srivathsan
2
48
Savidge, Daniel
2
49
Schell, Finn
2
50
Liu, Jack
2
51
Collins, Jonathan L
2
52
Salmons, Calum
2
53
Varley, Joe
2
54
Sefton, Adam
2
55
Watson, Jacob
1.5
56
Patel, Keatan
1.5
57
AIM
Bevis, Noah
1.5
58
Rastogi, Nayan Keats
1.5
59
Pick, Freddie
1.5
60
Byron, Alan M
1.5
61
FM
Dishman, Stephen
1.5
62
James, Russell A
1.5
63
Shivakumar, Akshath
1.5
64
Marsden, Samuel
1.5
65
Welling, Zac
1.5
66
CM
Fellowes, Billy
1.5
67
Verma, Shlok
1.5
68
Gibson, Christopher A
1
69
De Coverly, Roger D
1
70
Rughani, Mahin
1
71
Myall, Ivan J
1
72
Lapidus, Alexey M
1
73
Manley, Jon P
1
74
Kendall, Arthur
1
75
Keerthi Kumar, Advait
1
76
Gunarathne, Senith
1
77
Vaidyanathan, Sathya
1
78
Vaddhireddy, Sai
1
79
Hertog, Alexander
0.5
80
Anjulan, Ashwin
0.5
81
Clark, Robert G
0.5
82
Bolt, Graham
0.5
83
Ellson, Louie
0.5
84
Alldritt, Nigel Re
0