New season underway with September blitz

Our 2024/25 season got underway last Thursday with our September FIDE Blitz tournament! We had an excellent turnout of 43 players.

First place went to newcomer FM Koby Kalavannan, who scored a perfect 6/6. Top Hendon member was Mohammad Mozaffari with 4½/6. Congratulations!

Many thanks to Adam Raoof and Lance Leslie-Smith for running the tournament!

Full standings:

1: FM Koby Kalavannan (6/6)
2-3: Avyukt Dasgupta, WGM Elmira Mirzoeva (5/6)
4-5: Mohammad Hossein Mozaffari, Orest Stus (4½/6)
6-12: Domenico Napolitano, David Amior, Sanne De Boer, Francesco Sciaudone, Gary Senior, Jonathan Rubeck, Vishnu Kirupakaran (4/6)
13-15: Daniel Ruiz Cifuentes, Taohai Khan, Madhav Kaushik (3½/6)
16-25: Lion Lebedev, Alex Baroukh, Andrey Kovalenko, Harry Wright, Arshia Rezai, Rishi Chotai, David Ben-Nathan, Maciej Ciba, Sam Cicurel, Armaan Nilim (3/6)
26-30: Samir Richardson, Ashraf Hossain Mohammed, Adam Tobiansky, Edward Wolfin, Sam Cohen (2½/6)
31-37: Saifeldin Mohamed, Oscar Worrall, Sayed Abdul, Gul Kapur, Thirukumaran Ramasamy, Jonathan Samuel, Paul Braithwaite (2/6)
38-40: Ben Dages, Musa Siddiqui, Branavan Thavendrarasa (1½/6)
41-42: Andrew M Shoulders, Steve Phillips (1/6)
43: Andrew Medworth (½/1)

Full results available here.