🏆 Wightlink Isle of Wight International Chess Tournament 2025 – Final Results 🏆

The inaugural Wightlink Isle of Wight International Chess Tournament has come to a close! It was an incredible week, and we cannot thank you all enough for playing and supporting the event.

Your feedback has been fantastic, and we plan to send out a survey soon. We’re already making plans for next year, with several tweaks and improvements in the works.

Below is the full list of prize winners. We will be in touch with them shortly to request payment details.

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The Masters was fiercely contested, with four players finishing joint first on a total score of 7/9. By tiebreak, Bobby Cheng emerged as the Trophy winner and can officially be declared the 2025 Champion. Congratulations to all four players on a superb performance! 

Bobby Cheng - Wightlink IOW Masters Trophy Winner - Photo by Paul Blakely

Joint 1st Sebastian Bogner - Pictured here vs Daniel Fischer

Boris Chatalbashev - Joint 1st place Wightlink IOW Chess Tournament 2025

Matthew Wadsworth - Joint 1st place Wightlink IOW Chess Tournament 2025

Wightlink Isle of Wight International Masters 2025🏆

Chess results

Update – 27th February: Our sincere apologies. A small number of rating prizes in the congress were incorrectly declared. To clarify, the "Under" rating prizes are based on the highest ECF/FIDE standard rating as of 1st February 2025. The results have now been corrected, and the updated results are marked with an *.

Wightlink Isle of Wight international Masters	Winners	Share of Prize £
1st + Trophy + share of £3,050 4th place prize pool	Bobby Cheng	762.5
1st share of £3,050 1st to 4th place prize pool	Sebastian Bogner	762.5
1st share of £3,050 1st to 4th place prize pool	Boris Chatalbashev	762.5
1st share of £3,050 1st to 4th place prize pool	Matthew J Wadsworth	762.5
2nd share of £150 5th place prize	Marcos Camacho Collados	30
2nd share of £150 5th place prize	Vojtech Plat	30
2nd share of £150 5th place prize	Ameet K Ghasi	30
2nd share of £150 5th place prize	Thomas Beerdsen	30
2nd share of £150 5th place prize	Matthew J Turner	30

Highest placed 2100 to 2299 £100 (Based on FIDE rating)	Adam Dorrance	100
Highest placed 1900 to 2099 £100 (Based on FIDE rating)	Billy Fellowes	100
Highest placed Under 1899 £100 (Based on FIDE rating)	Finn Schell	100
Best Woman £250​​​	Viktoria Radeva	250
2nd Best Woman £100	Jovanka Houska	100
Best Under 18 £100	Lorenzo Fava	100
Best 55+ £100​	Keith C Arkell	100

Visit IOW U2000 Tournament	Winners	Share of prize £
1st £200 + Trophy​	Anuhas Gamage	200
2nd £150	A Clive Walley	150
3rd £125	Clive Bowley	125
4th £100	Max Hoekstra	100
Highest placing 1600 to 1799 £100 (Based on highest of ECF & FIDE rating)	Gudrun Fanney Briem	100
2nd highest placing 1600 to 1799 £75 (Based on highest of ECF & FIDE rating)	Advik Saxena	75
Highest placing 1400 to 1599 £100 (Based on highest of ECF & FIDE rating)	Harry Vernon	100
2nd highest placing 1400 to 1599 £75 (Based on highest of ECF & FIDE rating)	Sohana Sengupta	75
Best Woman £75: (As determined by ECF/FIDE Profile)	U R Jyothika	75
Best Under 18 £75	Sithun De Silva	75
Best 55+ £75	Colin A Costello	75

Congress Open	Winners	Share of prize £
1st £250 + Trophy​	Allan J Pleasants	250
2nd £175	Piotr Mikolajczyk	175
3rd £150	Oliver A Jackson	150
4th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Yicheng Ding
5th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Krzysztof Skiba
6th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Ashwin Anjulan
7th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Malcolm H Cooper
8th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Lluis Uso I Cubertorer
Highest placing Under 2000 £75 (Based on highest of ECF & FIDE rating)	Yicheng Ding	75
2nd highest placed Under 2000 £50 (Based on highest of ECF & FIDE rating)	Krzysztof Skiba	50
Best Woman £50	Gudrun Fanney Briem	50
Best Under 18 £50	Ashwin Anjulan	50
Best 55+ £50	Malcolm H Cooper	50

Congress U1850	Winners	Share of prize £
1st £175 + Trophy​	Ted Ronald	175
2nd £150	Richard H Edney	150
3rd £100	Jorgen Grondal	100
4th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Alan R Prince
5th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Hugo Brisebard
6th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Reyansh Saxena
7th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Sam Morris
8th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Yueci Li
Highest placing Under 1700 £50	Yueci Li*	50
Highest placing Under 1600 £50	Peter Eales*	50
Best Woman £25	U R Jyothika	25
Best Under 18 £25	Reyansh Saxena	25
Best 55+ £25	Alan R Prince	25

Congress U1550	Winners	Share of prize £
1st £125 + Trophy​	Samuel Hooks	125
2nd £75	Tiara Khanna	75
3rd £50	Isaac Mchugh	50
4th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Dheer Bhatia
5th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Keven A Lamb
6th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Ishaan Modak
7th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Dave Williams
8th Chess and Bridge Goody Bag	Charles Andreas Charalambous
Best Woman £25	Leia Keen	25
Best Under 18 £25	Dheer Bhatia	25
Best 55+ £25	Keven A Lamb	25

DGT Blitz: Weds 19th	Winners	Share of prize £
1st £100 + Trophy​	Vladyslav Larkin	100
2nd £75	Ameet K Ghasi	75
3rd £50	Vojtech Plat	50
Highest placing U2000 £50	Srivathsan Sasikumar	50
Highest placing U1500 £50	Aviraj Bhaduri	50

DGT Blitz: Sat 22nd	Winners	Share of prize £
1st £100 + Trophy​	Vojtech Plat	100
2nd £75	Ameet K Ghasi	75
3rd £50	Jude Shearsby	50
Highest placing U2000 £50	M R Sooraj	50
Highest placing U1500 £50	Samuel Hooks	50

DGT Blitz: Friday	Winners	Share of prize £
1st £100 + Trophy​	Thomas Beerdsen	100
2nd £75	Ameet K Ghasi	75
3rd £50	Vojtech Plat	50
Highest placing U2000 £50	Sebastian Mokhber-Garcia	50
Highest placing U1500 £50	Sergey Pereslavtsev	50

Blitz U2000 DGT Prizes	Winners
1st DGT Pegasus	Sebastian Mokhber-Garcia - 2250 Rp Fri 21st
2nd DGT 2500 Clock	M R Sooraj - 2248 Rp Sat 22nd
3rd DGT Starter Board and Clock	Zachary Cansdale Zachary - 2202 Rp Fri 21st

Prize winners will be contacted by email over the next few days. See you next year!