Birmingham Open 2025

List of entries as at Fri 14 Nov 2025.

Open			32 entries
Num	Name		Fedn	Club	Other	ECF Std	TR	Bye Req.
1	Bowcott-Terry, Finlay		ENG	Warwickshire Select		2332	2332
2	Vaidyanathan, Adithya		ENG	South Birmingham		2311	2311
3	Murawski, Jan	CM	ENG	Oxford City		2295	2295
4	Cont, Arya		ENG	Oxford City		2203	2203
5	Pilley, Jack		ENG	Syston		2183	2183
6	Modi, Shyam Jagdish		ENG	UCL		2164	2164
7	Potter, John M		ENG	Belper		2159	2159
8	Dupuis, Denis K		ENG	Battersea Chess Club		2130	2130
9	Briggs, Philip J		ENG	Nuneaton and Tamworth		2118	2118
10	Modi, Kishan J		ENG	Warwick University		2105	2105
11	Shivakumar, Akshath		ENG	Solihull		2070	2070
12	Baer, Bruce L		ENG	Central Birmingham		2053	2053
13	Bevis, Noah		ENG	Cowley		2050	2050
14	Lynch, Ethan		ENG	Nuneaton		2049	2049
15	Turner, Lewis A		ENG	Wigston		2049	2049	Round 3
16	Vaddhireddy, Sai		ENG	Ashton		2045	2045
17	Hu, Junyan		ENG	Kent Juniors		2037	2037
18	Hopkins, Kit W		ENG	Ulverston		2027	2027
19	Amoako, Selikem PJ		GHA	Bristol & Clifton		2001	2001
20	Sullivan, Daniel JS		ENG	Sheffield		2001	2001	Round 3
21	Fearnhead, Ben		ENG	University of Warwick		1986	1986
22	Berger, Justin		FRA	Somerset		1972	1972
23	Beattie, Conor		ENG	Buckinghamshire		1968	1968	Round 1
24	Ali, Golam S		ENG	Sutton Coldfield		1934	1934
25	Okorafor, Daniel		ENG	St Ives		1919	1919
26	Ronald, Ted		ENG	Anstey		1884	1884
27	Pyda, Arjun		ENG	Sutton Coldfield		1866	1866	Round 3
28	Dhingra, Kanvansh		ENG	Sutton Coldfield		1862	1862	Round 3
29	Whitmore, Darren H		ENG	South Birmingham		1858	1858
30	Saxena, Reyansh		ENG	Petts Wood & Orpington		1805	1805
31	Saxena, Advik		ENG	Petts Wood & Orpington		1794	1794	Round 2
32	Ranasinghe, Chaniru		SRI	South Birmingham		1789	1789

Major		12 entries
Num	Name	Fedn	Club	Other	ECF Std	TR
1	Reed, Kyle	ENG	Central Birmingham		1945	1945
2	Obi, Okwose Marc	ENG	Sutton Coldfield		1916	1916
3	Dziedzic, Tomek	ENG	none	1907		1907
4	Vaidyanathan, Sathya	ENG	South Birmingham		1894	1894
5	Lopez-Martinez, Alejandro	ENG	Ealing		1868	1868
6	Arp, Piotr	GER	Warwick University	1858		1858
7	Tamilselvan, Tara	ENG	Leicestershire Juniors		1814	1814
8	Bhaduri, Aviraj	ENG	Hendon		1796	1796
9	Maheshwari, Shlok	ENG	Swinton & Worsley		1791	1791
10	White, Nicholas E	ENG	Wycombe and Hazlemere		1743	1743
11	van Schaik, Willem	ENG	none	1742		1742
12	Chacko, Albert	ENG	Lichfield		1632	1632

Inter		34 entries
Num	Name	Fedn	Club	Other	ECF Std	TR	Bye Req.
1	Szwajkun, Richard	ENG	Telford		1728	1728	Round 3
2	Watkinson, Phil K	ENG	Wigston		1697	1697	Round 3
3	Caira, Theodore	ENG	Anstey		1669	1669
4	Montanelli, Filippo J	ENG	South Birmingham		1666	1666	Round 3
5	Heise Hidalgo, Claudia Sofia	CHI	Club de Ajedrez Mate de caballo	1665		1665
6	Keogh, Paul	ENG	Northwich		1661	1661	Round 3
7	Muxlow, Joseph	WLS	Wrexham		1657	1657
8	Homer, Neil S	ENG	None		1649	1649	Round 3
9	Chadaway, Stephen M	ENG	Olton		1632	1632
10	Bessant, Craig	ENG	Longbridge	1627		1627
11	Rohman, Mohammed	ENG	3Cs		1626	1626
12	Mottram, Paul	ENG	Wigston		1622	1622	Round 3
13	Gandhi, Preesh	ENG	Warwickshire Juniors		1614	1614
14	Prabhakaran, Anvikkashri	ENG	Coventry Chess Academy		1612	1612
15	Huang, Weidan	ENG	None		1611	1611
16	Roche, John JP	ENG	Altrincham & Hale	1600		1600	Round 4
17	Fowkes, Sam A	ENG	Oswestry		1584	1584	Round 1
18	Tipping, Joe	ENG	Redditch		1581	1581
19	Blackwell, Matthew	ENG	Rushall		1579	1579
20	Hughes, Sam	ENG	Olton		1578	1578
21	Cooksey, Shane	ENG	Rushall		1562	1562
22	Fancourt, Leslie J	ENG	Ashby		1549	1549
23	Ursu, Alexander	ENG	Wolverhampton		1530	1530
24	Jones, Daniel P	ENG	Brewood Chess Circle		1529	1529	Round 3
25	Rose, Peter	ENG	Lichfield		1522	1522
26	Findlay, Benjamin	ENG	SASCA		1517	1517
27	Patel, Diah	ENG	KEHS Birmingham		1511	1511	Round 1,2,3
28	Brown, Stephanie	ENG	Central Birmingham		1505	1505
29	Mari, Peter	ENG	Warrington		1390	1390
30	Mehta, Zara	ENG	Anstey		1390	1390	Round 3
31	Sanderson, Scarlett	ENG	Cheshire Junior Knights		1366	1366
32	Dupuis, Daniel	ENG	Battersea Chess Club		1353	1353
33	Baravalle, Maurizio	ITA	Lichfield		1310	1310
34	Attia, Ashraf	ENG	Wigston		1159	1159	Round 1

Minor		20 entries
Num	Name	Fedn	Club	Other	ECF Std	TR	Bye Req.
1	Sherwood, Tom	ENG	Longbridge		1480	1480
2	Ursu, Gheorghe	ENG	Wolverhampton		1441	1441
3	Cowley, Craig	ENG	Rushall		1428	1428
4	Cooper, Ron	ENG	Kettering		1417	1417
5	Ronald, Ken	ENG	Anstey		1410	1410
6	Saxena, Prakhar	ENG	Brentwood		1403	1403
7	McLaughlan, Matthew	ENG	none		1396	1396
8	Szwajkun, Steve	ENG	Telford		1345	1345	Round 3
9	Hughes, Peter J	ENG	none		1325	1325	Round 3
10	Mykhnenko, Markas	ENG	Bishop Challoner		1303	1303	Round 4,5
11	Rayment, Elijah	ENG	none	1284		1284
12	Babu, Abhinandan	ENG	Coventry University	1282		1282
13	Green, Malcolm	ENG	Crewe		1282	1282
14	Tarihalkar, Shrisha	ENG	Coventry Chess Academy		1269	1269	Round 1,2,3
15	Anegundhi, Anirvinya	ENG	Warwickshire		1255	1255
16	Crosby, Scott	ENG	None	1242		1242
17	Mehta, Hatle	ENG	Anstey		1226	1226	Round 3
18	Kocsis, Zoltan	ENG	London SE	1140		1140	Round 1
19	Saxena, Abhishek	ENG	Romford	859		859
20	Sinani, Vilma	ENG	Birmingham Settlement

Total entries 98.