Kingston Chess Club is happy to announce that we will be holding a fifth edition of the Kingston Invitational this year, running from Monday 17 to Friday 21 August at the Richard Mayo Centre, United Reformed Church, Eden Street, Kingston KT1 1HZ – home of the Kingston club. Paul McKeown will, as last year, be chief arbiter; Jake Hung will be deputy chief arbiter.
The tournament will be a nine-round Fide-rated Swiss at a time control of 90 minutes + 30-second increment. The first round will start at 3.30pm on Monday 17 August, and round times on the succeeding four days will be at 10am and 3.30pm. A small number of byes will be permitted at the discretion of the arbiters.
The field will comprise a maximum of 80 players and entry is by invitation. There is no entry fee, but we may suggest a good cause for those who wish to make a donation in lieu of entrance fee. Whether to make a donation will be entirely at the discretion of participants. There is no rating floor for entrants, but players with Fide ratings above 2000 are likely to be given priority. Some wild cards under that rating may be given, especially to Kingston members, friends of the club and juniors.
The winner of the tournament will receive the Kingston Invitational Cup and £500, with £250 to second and £100 to third. The leading junior (17 or under) will receive the Barden Cup (named in honour of Guardian chess correspondent Leonard Barden) and £100. If players’ scores are level at the end of the tournament, a tie-break designated by the arbiters will be used. There will be no play-off.
We are in the process of sending out invitations, but I would also be pleased to receive requests for entry from players who would like to take part. Please email me on stephen.moss@theguardian.com as soon as possible.
Stephen Moss, Kingston Chess Club captain
List of entrants [current Fide rating in brackets]
Daniel Gormally [2393]
Adam A Taylor [2269]
Graeme Buckley [2262]
Jack Rudd [2252]
Thomas Villiers [2220]
Peter D Lalić [2208]
Alfie Onslow [2199]
Daniel Johnson [2194]
Danbe Luk [2187]
Menothuparambil Raju Sooraj [2187]
Henry Adams [2174]
Avyukt Dasgupta [2172]
James Merriman [2169]
Peter Finn [2165]
Mikhail Sedykh [2162]
Jai Kothari [2158]
David Okike [2158]
Pengxiao Zhu [2150]
Robert S Eames [2144]
Arya Cont [2143]
Alistair Hill [2143]
Peter G Large [2138]
Aayush Wadhwa [2117]
Michael W Healey [2112]
Richard J McMichael [2111]
Rock Yu [2105]
Mark Josse [2103]
Peter J Sowray [2093]
Robert F Willmoth [2090]
Zain Patel [2077]
Samuel A Walker [2075]
Sanjit S Kumar [2074]
Graham Keane [2068]
Raman Vashisht-Pigem [2053]
Noah Bevis [2035]
Zac Welling [2027]
Adrien Allorant [2026]
Saahil Bansal [2026]
Caspar J Bates [2020]
Philip J Horspool [2007]
Zoltan Kovacs [2007]
Keatan Patel [1999]
Balahari Bharat Kumar [1995]
Petr Vachtfeidl [1994]
Alan Scrimgour [1990]
Robin W Haldane [1982]
Jasper Tambini [1970]
Harvey Li [1967]
Alastair Armstrong [1964]
Yashwardhan Shankar [1955]
Yiwen Ding [1951]
James Stevenson [1951]
Gabriel Sherwood [1936]
Chris Fegan [1935]
Chris Rice [1920]
Sebastian Mokhber-Garcia [1918]
Mario Carrus [1911]
Anthony Hughes [1888]
Ananya Wadhwa [1887]
Carles Brugarolas Manzaneque [1884]
Isaac Lam [1884]
Yicheng Ding [1883]
Marcus Gosling [1882]
Teddy Onslow [1880]
Diego Anton Cordova-Lopez [1872]
Tim L Rogers [1871]
Maks Gajowniczek [1868]
Liam Clery [1866]
Xavier Cowan [1864]
Anixton Linton [1864]
Lev Razhnou [1855]
Om Reddy Jayar [1826]
Leo Kowalski Rubiales [1821]
Bobur Khakimov [1776]
Jonathan Eckert [1747]
Tom Mayers [1742]
Constantin Liesch [no current Fide rating]
Nicolas von Schlippe [no current Fide rating]