The third Kingston Invitational will be a Swiss for around 60 players played at Tiffin Boys School in central Kingston from Monday 12 to Friday 16 August. Nine rounds, Fide-rated, 90min + 30sec time control, with Fide arbiters Jake Hung and Lance Leslie-Smith acting as tournament controllers. You can follow the action on Chess Results.

The winner will receive a prize of £500 (and the Kingston Invitational trophy, won last year by IM Conor Murphy); second receives £250; third £100. The leading junior (16 or under) will receive £200 and the Barden Cup, named in honour of Leonard Barden, long-time Guardian chess correspondent, who has always been an advocate for English junior chess and has taken a close interest in the Kingston tournament, encouraging us to give rising young players a chance to take on established stars. We are very proud that Leonard, who will be 95 on 20 August 2024 and is boundlessly self-effacing, has allowed us to name this trophy after him. It is, we believe, the first time he has been honoured in this way. There will also be a £50 best game prize, to be judged by the esteemed chess journalist John Saunders.

The rating floor for participation in the event is around 2000 ECF, though some exceptions have been made. Entry is free and by invitation only. We hope that the tournament will be sufficiently strong and have enough titled players and players from the necessary range of federations to allow us to offer norms.

These are the players who have so far accepted invitations to play, though some of these acceptances are provisional:

				FIDE
1	IM	Conor	Murphy	2463
2	IM	Vladyslav	Larkin	2444
3	FM	Maciej	Czopor	2361
4	FM	Aaravamudhan	Balaji	2346
5	IM	Graeme	Buckley	2334
6	IM	Peter	Large	2315
7	FM	Alex	Golding	2296
8		Daniel	Gallagher	2294
9	FM	Roland	Bezuidenhout	2270
10	FM	Alex	Browning	2267
11	CM	Kenneth	Hobson	2266
12	IM	Gavin	Wall	2258
13	CM	James	Holland	2252
14	FM	Zhuo Ren	Lim	2250
15	CM	Thomas	Villiers	2229
16	CM	Peter	Lalić	2167
17		Clive	Frostick	2166
18	CM	Mark	Josse	2150
19	FM	Robert	Eames	2148
20	CM	Stanley	Badacsonyi	2132
21		Michael	Healey	2130
22		Daniel	Johnson	2126
23	CM	Supratit	Banerjee	2115
24	CM	Robert	Willmoth	2115
25		Timothy	Seymour	2113
26		Matthew	Dignam	2104
27		Shlok	Verma	2102
28		Rohan	Pal	2097
29		Jude	Shearsby	2092
30		Matthew	Payne	2079
31		Elis Denele	Dicen	2073
32		Billy	Fellowes	2063
33		Manmay	Chopra	2063
34		Tianyi (Jack)	Liu	2051
35	ACM	George	Zhao	2041
36	CM	Jem	Gurner	2039
37		Samuel	Walker	2032
38		Connor	Clarke	2027
39	AGM	Nicolas	Skettos	2017
40		Balahari	Bharat Kumar	1994
41		Peter	Hasson	1987
42		Joshua	Pirgon	1985
43		Ewan	Wilson	1983
44		Zain	Patel	1972
45		William	Taylor	1967
46		Edmond	Andal	1960
47		Kushal	Jakhria	1935
48		Bruce	Baer	1926
49		Daniel	Young	1926
50		Alisha	Vyas	1866