Harry Bryant wins December blitz!

Our final FIDE Blitz tournament of 2023 was won by Harry Bryant with a perfect 6/6 score – congratulations!

Joint second place went to Ilya Iyengar and Jonathan Rubeck with 4½/6; Jonathan wins the prize for top Hendon player.

GM Alexander Cherniaev had won the first three blitz tournaments of the season, but on this occasion he didn’t play in the first few rounds.

Thanks as always to Adam Raoof for organising the tournament!

Full standings:

1: Harry Bryant (6/6)
2-3: Ilya Iyengar, Jonathan Rubeck (4½/6)
4-8: Gary Senior, Kamil Ozdemir, Connor Clarke, Niall Clarke, Gregory Mostyn (4/6)
9: Remy Rushbrooke (3½/6)
10-18: Lion Lebedev, Anthony Bolchover, Albert Ballardini, Selvarattinam Genga Somupillai, Jonathan Clark, Orest Stus, Ashraf Hossain Mohammed, Ruairi Isaacs, GM Alexander Cherniaev (3/6)
19-21: Rishi Chotai, Salvatore Pepe, ACM Vladislav Kazantsev (2½/6)
22-29: Kestutis Gudovijus, Armaan Nilim, Jonathan Rosen-Webb, Gautam Sriram, Timur Shekhmametev, Rob Coles, Djad Ben-Eshak, Lance Leslie-Smith (2/6)
30-31: Damien Sobolevski, Daniil Piatetskyi (1/6)
32: Chris Rogal (0/6)

Full results available here.