Hull & East Riding Rapid Play Results

2025

Open

Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts Prize
1 4 Kamila Hryshchenko 2150 ENG Hull 5 £200.00
2 5 John G Cooper 2148 ENG Hull £100.00
3 2 Samuel A Milson 2299 ENG Sheffield Nomads 4 £50.00

Performance Prizes – not awarded due to the low number of players in this section.

Major (U1900)

Money Prizes

Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts Prize
1 1 Stephen Crow 1893 ENG St Andrews Hull 5 £150.00
16 Gary Morris 1678 ENG Hull 5 £150.00
3 18 George Swanson 1664 ENG Stannington £25.00
30 Ewan Miller 1609 ENG York £25.00

Performance Prizes

Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club W-We Prize
1 27 William Bryan 1618 ENG Yorkshire Juniors 1.50 £30.00
2 13 Jonathan R Slater 1692 ENG Hull 1.24 £20.00

Minor (U1600)

Money Prizes

Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts Prize
1 13 Stuart Sharp 1477 ENG Hull £200.00
2 7 Ian Scott 1537 ENG St Andrews Hull 5 £100.00
3 3 Joey Pramana 1556 ENG Gosforth £12.50
11 Bertie Leatham 1495 ENG York £12.50
27 Olaf Duemmer Wrigley 1316 ENG York £12.50
37 Kieran Hooton 0 ENG Hull University £12.50

Performance Prizes

Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club W-We Prize
1 31 Dan Malbon 1251 ENG St Andrews Hull 2.16 £30.00
2 26 Steve A Spencer 1319 ENG Yorks Copper Works 2.03 £20.00

Foundation (U1300)

Money Prizes

Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club Pts Prize
1 3 Jamie Fisher 1256 ENG Beverley 5 £200.00
2 4 Ambrose Lam 1211 ENG Lymm £50.00
7 Sebastian Dworniak 1127 ENG Hull £50.00
22 Maro Arab 0 ENG Hull £50.00

Performance Prize (only one is awarded in this section due to the lower number of eligible players)

Rank SNo. Name Rtg FED Club W-We Prize
1 21 Rithanya Mohanasundar 508 ENG York * 2.43 £30.00

2024

Open

1-3 place: Samuel Milson (Louth), Kamila Hryshchenko (Hull) and Maksym Larchikov (Hull)   4½ points

First performance prize: Aaron Rich (York)  1.42 W-We

Second performance prize: Nigel Birthwistle (Grantham)   0.45 W-We

Major (U1900)

1st place: Edouardos Ter Gevorkian (Darnall & Handsworth)   5½ points

2nd place: Phil Bawden (East Hull Chess Club)   5 points

3rd place: Paul May (Limewood & Scarcroft), Roger Greatorex (Llangollen), Benedikt Pitel (Hull)   4½ points

First performance prize: Rene Butler (Market Harborough)   1.37 W-We

Second performance prize: Robin A Edwards (St Andrews Hull)  0.96 W-We

Minor (U1600)

1st place: Paul Leanord (Atherton)    5½ points

2-3 place: Neil Hambly (Hull), Alex Porter (Leyland), Adam Hague (Lancashire)    5 points

First performance prize: Seth Woozeer (South Yorkshire)    1.53 W-We

Second performance prize: Vidhyuth Kavin Sudagar (Great Manchester)    0.97 W-We

Other prizes

Winner of the Fairplay Prize: Rene Butler

Winner of the Junior Trophy: Alex Porter (Lelyand)

2023

The Open was won by Artem Lutsko with 5 out of 6. Artem has only just arrived in the country a month or so ago. He is a Ukrainian junior, with a FIDE rating of 2401!
Maksym Larchikov (also a junior from Ukraine, residing in Hull, who managed to beat Artem in the last round) and Gavyn Cooper (Acomb Wm Club) came joint 2nd with 4.5 points.

The performance prize was won by Joe Varley (Hull).

The U1900 was won jointly by Paul May (Alwoodley) and Chris Matthews (East Hull Chess Club) (5 points). Kyle Pelling (junior, Heywood), David Wells (York) and Gerald Cuaresma (Huddersfield) shared 3rd place (4.5 points).

The first performance prize in the U1900 was won by Michael Connor (Great Lever), the 2nd one by Ray Ezra (Hull).

The U1600 was a joint victory for 4 players, 2 of which are juniors: Benedikt Pitel (junior, Hull), Shriaansh Ganti (junior, Wakefield), David Stothard (Hull) and Hussam Al Haidar (Hull) (5 points).

The first performance prize in the U1600 was won by Amarishika Anbalagan (junior, Grantham) and the 2nd one by Rajan Mistry (University of Warwick).

2022

Open

1st place: Paul Townsend.    4.5 points

2nd place: Nigel Birtwistle.    3.5 points

3rd place: Andrei Ciuravin, Joe Kilshaw, Jonathan Arnott and Thomas Wills.    3 points

Performance prize: Andrei Ciuravin and Thomas Wills.    1.16 W-We

Major (U1900)

1st place: Jack Walker.    5(!) points

2nd place: Daniel Shek, Paul May and Roger Greatorex.    4 points

1st performance prize: Geoffrey Brown.    1.15 W-We

2nd performance prize: Bodhana Sivanandan.    0.92 W-We

Minor (U1600)

1st place: Eldars Gulijevs.    4.5 points

2nd place: Tim Lounds, William J Egan, Graeme C Reid and Steve J Thrower.    4 points

1st performance prize: Stephen Holmes.    1.61

2nd performance prize: Benedikt Pitel.    1.59

Winner of the Junior Trophy

Eldars Gulijevs

2020

Open

First place: Dan Staples with 4.5 points
2nd place: Peter Ackley with 4 points
3rd place: Nugith Jayawarna, Simon Smith and Shaun Culkin with 3.5 points 
1st performance prize: Jim Davis
2nd performance prize: Eric Gardiner

Major (U1900)

1st place: Paul May with 4.5 points
2nd place: Bruce Oliver and Kevin Winter with 4 points
1st performance prize: Andrew Bettley
2nd performance prize: Joe Varley

Minor (U120)

1st place: Milosz Kasprzyk and Alan Smith with 4.5 points
3rd place: David Buckley, Patrick Costello and Ian Scott with 4 points
1st Grading prize: Keith Noons
2nd Grading prize: Philip Wood

The Junior Trophy was won by Milosz Kasprzyk.