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Isle of Wight Christmas Blitz 2025

Warm up for the Isle of Wight International (16–22 Feb 2026) with our festive online blitz event.

Enter here:
https://www.iowchess.com/event-details/ ... blitz-2025

FOUR 3+2 Swiss tournaments
🗓 Saturday 20 December 2025
12:00 | 15:00 | 18:00 | 21:00 (UK time)

Prizes include:
• Free entry to the 2026 Isle of Wight Tournament
• Amazon vouchers
• U2000 rating prizes

Play one event or play them all. Blitz it out with players from around the world, and maybe even a Grandmaster!

I only managed to play the last one of these (as I am too old to play much of this quick stuff), but I enjoyed it. Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan did youtube coverage of the last one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iSlX7T9iNs which concentrated on the juniors and GMs obviously, but mere mortals did get the odd mention.

There was a fine example of a Ponziani, which you don't see much of these days.