2026 Coventry Open

List of entries as at Fri 13 Feb 2026.

Open			33 entries
Num	Name		Fedn	Club	Other	ECF Std	TR	Bye Req.
1	Bowcott-Terry, Finlay		ENG	Warwickshire Select		2375	2375
2	Norris, Zack		ENG	Wotton Hall		2340	2340
3	Xian, Junhao		CHN	none		2252	2252
4	Bullen, Alex	CM	WLS	Cardiff		2246	2246
5	Friar, Joseph D		ENG	Kidderminster		2152	2152
6	Baer, Bruce L		ENG	Central Birmingham		2124	2124
7	Mason, Donald J	NM	ENG	Shirley & Wythall		2111	2111	Round 3
8	Lynch, Ethan		ENG	Nuneaton		2108	2108
9	Patel, Keatan		ENG	Kenilworth		2105	2105
10	Sagyaman, Francis W		PHI	none		2103	2103
11	Faulkner, Adam		ENG	none		2055	2055
12	Latt, Maung M		MYA	Coventry		2052	2052
13	Turner, Lewis A		ENG	Wigston		2051	2051	Round 3
14	Gillings, Matt		ENG	Cheltenham		2041	2041
15	Sullivan, Daniel JS		ENG	Sheffield		2036	2036	Round 3
16	Fowler, Jonathan		ENG	Coventry		2027	2027	Round 4
17	Fearnhead, Ben		ENG	Poulton-le-Fylde		2019	2019
18	Billings, Alex J		ENG	Kendal		2012	2012	Round 3
19	Sherwood, Gabriel		ENG	Oxford City		1996	1996	Round 1
20	Sahoo, Shivam		ENG	MK Bishops		1982	1982
21	Sanchez, Eduardo J		ENG	Central Birmingham	1954		1954
22	Rubeck, Jonathan		ENG	Hendon		1947	1947	Round 1
23	Naithani, Shaurya		USA	University of Warwick	1928		1928
24	Dhingra, Kanvansh		ENG	Sutton Coldfield		1919	1919
25	Pyda, Arjun		ENG	Sutton Coldfield		1912	1912	Round 3
26	Karangad, Mohit Kamal		ENG	Reading School		1908	1908
27	Harrison, Oliver		ENG	University of Birmingham		1902	1902
28	Tamilselvan, Tara		ENG	Leicestershire		1826	1826
29	Ranasinghe, Chaniru		SRI	South Birmingham		1811	1811
30	Poderico, Francesco		ITA	Banbury		1805	1805
31	Szakmany, Bence		WLS	University of Warwick		1790	1790
32	Manickam, Saravanna Bava		ENG	Coventry		1769	1769
33	Singh, Guranshvir		ENG	Aylesbury		1698	1698

Major		27 entries
Num	Name	Fedn	Club	Other	ECF Std	TR	Bye Req.
1	Ireland, David J	ENG	Coventry		1986	1986
2	Boynton, Luke	ENG	Central Birmingham		1963	1963
3	Darling, Tom	ENG	Leamington		1944	1944
4	Obi, Okwose Marc	ENG	Sutton Coldfield		1944	1944
5	Taylor, Robert K	ENG	Stamford		1933	1933
6	Griffin-Young, Sebastian	ENG	West Nottingham		1889	1889
7	Graff, Ben	ENG	Kenilworth		1875	1875	Round 3
8	Vaidyanathan, Sathya	ENG	South Birmingham		1874	1874
9	Towers, Nigel S	ENG	Redditch		1841	1841
10	Faulkner, Martin J	ENG	Coulsdon		1839	1839
11	Edwards, Rhys	ENG	Coventry		1822	1822
12	Levy, Christopher A	ENG	Hackney		1814	1814	Round 3
13	Drugan, Mark A	ENG	South Birmingham		1775	1775
14	Caira, Theodore	ENG	Anstey		1769	1769	Round 1
15	Kodukula, Sameera	ENG	Reading		1738	1738
16	Mehta, Sophie	ENG	Anstey		1733	1733
17	Lawrence, Roy A	ENG	Sutton Coldfield		1700	1700
18	Faulkner, Oliver	ENG	none		1667	1667
19	Kuchibhatla, Ishaan Sai	ENG	Gravesend		1659	1659
20	Nguyen, Minh	ENG	Linton		1643	1643
21	Prabhakaran, Anvikkashri	ENG	Coventry Chess Academy		1625	1625
22	Patel, Diah	ENG	KEHS Birmingham		1622	1622
23	Ou, Siyuan	ENG	KEHS Birmingham		1600	1600
24	Acharya, Nikesh	ENG	none		1592	1592
25	Vijay, Kayal	ENG	Bishop's Stortford		1581	1581
26	Nalabothula, Dushyanth Gan	ENG	Watford		1573	1573
27	Ou, Siyao	ENG	KEHS Birmingham		1481	1481

Inter		24 entries
Num	Name	Fedn	Club	Other	ECF Std	TR	Bye Req.
1	Stephen, Alaric	ENG	Worcester		1733	1733
2	van Schaik, Willem	ENG	none		1728	1728
3	Patel, Bhavesh	ENG	Leamington		1676	1676
4	Lloyd, Gabriel	ENG	Daventry		1662	1662
5	Singhal, Saket	ENG	Central Birmingham		1655	1655
6	Blackwell, Matthew	ENG	Rushall		1648	1648
7	van Neerven, Yvon	ENG	Anstey		1645	1645	Round 1
8	Homer, Neil S	ENG	none		1640	1640	Round 3
9	Williams, Carlos	ENG	Burton		1614	1614
10	Mottram, Paul	ENG	Wigston		1578	1578	Round 1
11	Sagyaman, Vassily M	ENG	none		1572	1572
12	Condron, Leonardo	ENG	Leicestershire Juniors		1568	1568	Round 1
13	Bessant, Craig	ENG	Longbridge		1565	1565
14	MacLeavy, Jamie	ENG	South Birmingham	1549		1549
15	Morris, Nigel W	ENG	Leamington		1525	1525
16	Kornilovich, Gregory	ENG	Warwick		1518	1518
17	Sherwood, Tom	ENG	Longbridge		1507	1507
18	Condron, Harrison	ENG	Leicestershire Juniors		1484	1484	Round 1
19	Holmes, Stephen	ENG	Market Harborough		1477	1477
20	So, Mason	ENG	none		1477	1477
21	Whetnall, Connor	ENG	Lichfield		1398	1398
22	Hu, Jason	ENG	Blue Coat Harborne		1396	1396
23	Mehta, Zara	ENG	Anstey		1364	1364
24	Tarihalkar, Shrisha	ENG	Shrubland Street		1320	1320

Minor		28 entries
Num	Name	Fedn	Club	Other	ECF Std	TR	Bye Req.
1	Khemoudj, Omar	ENG	Leamington		1498	1498
2	Brown, Stephanie	ENG	Kenilworth		1491	1491
3	Cooksey, Shane	ENG	Rushall		1489	1489
4	Fraser, Chris A	ENG	Nottingham Central		1471	1471	Round 3
5	Cooper, Ron	ENG	Kettering		1395	1395
6	Waugh, Norman	SCO	Castlehill Dundee	1360		1360
7	Mykhnenko, Markas	ENG	Bishop Challoner		1355	1355
8	Baravalle, Maurizio	ITA	Lichfield		1301	1301
9	Hughes, Peter J	ENG	none		1288	1288	Round 3
10	Pugaciauskas, Dominic	ENG	Solihull		1264	1264
11	Tan, Yang	ENG	Blue Coat Harborne		1264	1264
12	Abraham Thomas, Shijo	ENG	Birmingham	1260		1260
13	Amirthanathan, Adam	ENG	Radcliffe and Bingham		1247	1247
14	Mehta, Hatle	ENG	Anstey		1244	1244
15	Bates, Thomas	ENG	Nuneaton	1164		1164
16	Vaidya, Malhar	ENG	Basildon	1144		1144
17	Hayward, Graham	ENG	none		1120	1120	Round 4
18	Yu, Jiwei	ENG	Cheshire & N Wales Juniors		1097	1097
19	Tsang, Ethan	ENG	none	1027		1027
20	Polampalli, Gokul Sai Nandan	ENG	Coventry Chess Academy	999		999
21	Sukhvinder, Gurpreet	ENG	none	978		978
22	Mandair, Aariyan	ENG	Hallfield		962	962	Round 3
23	Bijibilla, Anish	ENG	Coventry Chess Academy		956	956
24	Dongre, Advik	ENG	none		882	882
25	Garnsworthy, Riyaan	ENG	Coventry Chess Academy	864		864	Round 3
26	Padala, Tarini	ENG	Rolls Royce Derby	762		762
27	Arra, Rivansh	ENG	Blossomfield	722		722
28	Ismail, Muhammad	ENG	none	650		650

Total entries 112.