The 2025 British Chess Championships is taking place August 02 – August 10 in St Georges Hall, Liverpool, England. The tournament ise separated in 9 categories – Championship, Major Open, Over 65, Over 50, Under 16, Under 14, Under 12, Under 10 and Under 08. The Championship section is a 9 round Swiss system tournament with time control 90 min / 40 moves + 30 min + 30 sec / move. For more events from England, check out The European Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The top rated player is GM Nikita Vitiugov (2676), followed by GM Michael Adams (2663) and GM Gawain Maroroa Jones (2651). Top 20 is completed by GM Stuart C Conquest (2511), GM Ameet K Ghasi (2501), GM Daniel H Fernandez (2500), GM Shreyas Royal (2495), IM Brandon Gi Clarke (2491), IM Matthew J Wadsworth (2483), IM Svyatoslav Bazakutsa (2481), GM Stephen J Gordon (2469), IM Jonah B Willow (2459), GM Simon K Williams (2444), IM Peter T Roberson (2440), IM Marcus R Harvey (2439), IM Maciej Czopor (2434), IM Yichen Han (2430), IM Siva Mahadevan (2416), IM Richard G Pert (2409), IM Rajat Makkar (2406). Scroll down for the full participants list.
Categories : Major Open / Over 65 / Over 50 / Under 16 / Under 14 / Under 12 / Under 10 / Under 08
More : World Schools Team Championship 2025
2025 British Chess Championships Participants
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Vitiugov, Nikita | ENG | 2676 |
| 2 | GM | Adams, Michael | ENG | 2663 |
| 3 | GM | Maroroa Jones, Gawain | ENG | 2651 |
| 4 | GM | Conquest, Stuart C | ENG | 2511 |
| 5 | GM | Ghasi, Ameet K | ENG | 2501 |
| 6 | GM | Fernandez, Daniel H | ENG | 2500 |
| 7 | GM | Royal, Shreyas | ENG | 2495 |
| 8 | IM | Clarke, Brandon Gi | ENG | 2491 |
| 9 | IM | Wadsworth, Matthew J | ENG | 2483 |
| 10 | IM | Bazakutsa, Svyatoslav | UKR | 2481 |
| 11 | GM | Gordon, Stephen J | ENG | 2469 |
| 12 | IM | Willow, Jonah B | ENG | 2459 |
| 13 | GM | Williams, Simon K | ENG | 2444 |
| 14 | IM | Roberson, Peter T | ENG | 2440 |
| 15 | IM | Harvey, Marcus R | ENG | 2439 |
| 16 | IM | Czopor, Maciej | POL | 2434 |
| 17 | IM | Han, Yichen | NED | 2430 |
| 18 | IM | Mahadevan, Siva | IND | 2416 |
| 19 | IM | Pert, Richard G | ENG | 2409 |
| 20 | IM | Makkar, Rajat | FRA | 2406 |
| 21 | IM | Zhou, Yang-Fan | ENG | 2406 |
| 22 | IM | Kanyamarala, Tarun | IRL | 2397 |
| 23 | FM | Waldhausen Gordon, Frederick | SCO | 2393 |
| 24 | FM | Golding, Alex | ENG | 2377 |
| 25 | FM | Claridge-Hansen, William | ENG | 2364 |
| 26 | FM | Hobson, Kenneth | ENG | 2361 |
| 27 | GM | Flear, Glenn C | ENG | 2358 |
| 28 | FM | Chopra, Tanmay | IND | 2357 |
| 29 | IM | Eggleston, David J | ENG | 2348 |
| 30 | FM | Derakhshani, Borna | ENG | 2348 |
| 31 | GM | Hebden, Mark L | ENG | 2347 |
| 32 | GM | Wells, Peter K | ENG | 2339 |
| 33 | IM | Ledger, Andrew J | ENG | 2323 |
| 34 | FM | Kalavannan, Koby | ENG | 2323 |
| 35 | FM | Fava, Lorenzo | ITA | 2318 |
| 36 | WGM | Yao, Lan | ENG | 2316 |
| 37 | FM | Vijayakumar, Rishi | SCO | 2310 |
| 38 | FM | Badacsonyi, Stanley | ENG | 2309 |
| 39 | IM | Hunt, Harriet V | ENG | 2294 |
| 40 | GM | Davies, Nigel R | ENG | 2291 |
| 41 | WGM | Mirzoeva, Elmira | ENG | 2282 |
| 42 | Boswell, Jacob Connor | ENG | 2278 | |
| 43 | CM | Shearsby, Jude | ENG | 2270 |
| 44 | FM | Webb, Laurence E | ENG | 2268 |
| 45 | FM | Pert, Max P | ENG | 2263 |
| 46 | IM | Rudd, Jack | ENG | 2259 |
| 47 | FM | Dishman, Stephen | ENG | 2254 |
| 48 | FM | Dickenson, Neil F | ENG | 2247 |
| 49 | FM | Richardson, John R | ENG | 2246 |
| 50 | FM | Banerjee, Supratit | ENG | 2242 |
| 51 | CM | Khoury, Theo | ENG | 2239 |
| 52 | WFM | Sivanandan, Bodhana | ENG | 2216 |
| 53 | CM | Yoon, Jacob D | ENG | 2203 |
| 54 | CM | Jackson, Edward | ENG | 2194 |
| 55 | FM | Badacsonyi, Frankie | ENG | 2193 |
| 56 | CM | Stubbs, Oliver | ENG | 2191 |
| 57 | CM | Murawski, Jan | ENG | 2189 |
| 58 | CM | Chopra, Manmay | IND | 2188 |
| 59 | Price, Gwilym T | ENG | 2186 | |
| 60 | Jones, Steven A | ENG | 2185 | |
| 61 | Shafi, Declan | SCO | 2183 | |
| 62 | Kovalskyi, Roman | UKR | 2180 | |
| 63 | WIM | Kanyamarala, Trisha | IRL | 2178 |
| 64 | Golding, James | ENG | 2176 | |
| 65 | FM | Ledger, Dave J | ENG | 2161 |
| 66 | NM | Sedykh, Mikhail | ENG | 2159 |
| 67 | Dasgupta, Avyukt | ENG | 2158 | |
| 68 | NM | Brewer, Callum D | ENG | 2152 |
| 69 | IM | Bradbury, Neil H | ENG | 2137 |
| 70 | FM | Eames, Robert S | ENG | 2136 |
| 71 | Crawford, Owen | ENG | 2125 | |
| 72 | CM | Fellowes, Billy | ENG | 2122 |
| 73 | Vaidyanathan, Adithya | ENG | 2115 | |
| 74 | Adams, Henry | ENG | 2114 | |
| 75 | Yu, Rock | ENG | 2107 | |
| 76 | Chan, Sheng Liang Bernard | MAS | 2098 | |
| 77 | WFM | Hryshchenko, Kamila | ENG | 2097 |
| 78 | Stoica, Savas Marin | ENG | 2092 | |
| 79 | Honey, Luke | ENG | 2082 | |
| 80 | Pereslavtsev, Alexandr | ENG | 2079 | |
| 81 | Malinovskii, Ilia | ENG | 2075 | |
| 82 | WFM | Kueh, Audrey | ENG | 2071 |
| 83 | Liu, Jack | ENG | 2071 | |
| 84 | WFM | Dicen, Elis Denele | ENG | 2069 |
| 85 | WFM | Weersing, Abigail R | ENG | 2056 |
| 86 | Ashworth, Michael J | ENG | 2053 | |
| 87 | Bharat Kumar, Balahari | ENG | 2052 | |
| 88 | Harborne, Matthew J | ENG | 2048 | |
| 89 | Lebedev, Lion | ENG | 2048 | |
| 90 | Patel, Zain | ENG | 2048 | |
| 91 | Verbytski, Oleg | ENG | 2001 | |
| 92 | Deepak Ambattu, Rithvik | SCO | 1990 | |
| 93 | Jukes, Sam | WLS | 1972 | |
| 94 | WFM | Strade, Arita | GCI | 1971 |
| 95 | Turner, Lewis A | ENG | 1965 | |
| 96 | Carpenter, Paul A | JCI | 1922 | |
| 97 | Gunarathne, Senith | ENG | 1918 | |
| 98 | WCM | Nevska, Gerda | GCI | 1799 |
| 99 | Korsinskij, Marek | CZE | 1727 | |
| 100 | WCM | Ashbrooke, Monika | JCI | 1591 |

