1st Glossop Chess Weekend 18-20 July 2025

[David Fowler]

https://congress.org.uk/congress/610/home

Glossop Chess Club's first foray into event organising features a five round tournament with Open and U1700 sections on Sat/Sun 19/20 July. This is preceded by a book talk and signing by WIM Natasha Regan and National Instructor Matt Ball (Zwischenzug!) on Friday 18th July.

Please note that initially entries are not being accepted from juniors due to insufficient space to accommodate parents.

On the edge of the beautiful Peak District, with limited numbers but with a guaranteed prize fund of £1600+.

[David Fowler]

With three weeks to go we now have the High Peak Mayor confirmed for our Opening Ceremony, an IM, WIM and FIDE Master in the Open and a pleasingly wide spread of locations from where players are coming from to play in the tournament.
A Promotion Day was held at the local Tesco which has already garnered new members for our club and there has been a feature in the quarterly High Peak Review.
As well as the five round tournament and book talk / signing we are also holding a couple of Info Sessions where local people can just drop in and find out more about the event, our club and chess in general

https://congress.org.uk/congress/610/home

[David Fowler]

We have now closed our online entries.

We do have some spaces for the Friday evening WIM Natasha Regan NI Matt Ball (Zwischenzug!) book talk/signing - please contact me if interested -

[email protected]

https://www.congress.org.uk/congress/610/home

[David Fowler]

The prize winners were:
Open:
1st= £375 Ledger, Andrew J
1st= £375 Larchikov, Maksym
3rd= £33.33 Jaunooby, Ali Reza
3rd= £33.33 Sanada, Tetsuaki
3rd= £33.33 Ganti, Shriaansh
Rating £25 Hirst, Joe Aj
Rating £25 Cheung, Leo
Rating £25 Boganadham, Ved Sudeep

Major:
1st £400 Sullivan, Luke
2nd= £140 Marsh, Aram
2nd= £140 Morris, Jim
Rating £50 Thompson, Andrew

Full results at

https://s1.chess-results.com/tnrWZ.aspx ... no=1219747

Brendan's photos at

https://brendanogorman.smugmug.com/Ches ... ekend-2025

As well as the two-day tournament, Natasha Regan and Matt Ball entertained and educated on the Friday evening with Zwischenzug! positions and puzzles, and a Saturday evening social at Canella (Coffee House and much more, the main local sponsors) was enjoyed by many. Thanks must also be given for the help received from both the ECF Grassroots Fund and Tesco Glossop. Additionally a drop-in 'Info Session' gained Glossop Chess Club a couple of new members.
Look out for the 2nd edition next year !