2025 – pending …

2024

Congratulations to the 2024 British Chess Champion GM Gawain Jones, who became the latest champion following Sunday’s exciting playoff against second placed GM David Howell! Gawain and David agreed a draw in their round 9 game with both players finishing on 7 points, which was half a point clear of the following pack and resulted in a playoff for the title. The playoff was all square after two rapidplay games, with Gawain then winning the blitz games by 1½ – ½ to take the 2024 Championship. Congratulations also go to joint British Women’s Champions WGM Lan Yao and WIM Trisha Kanyamarala.

Congratulations also go to highest placed juniors in the main British Championship as follows:
Highest placed U21 – FM Maciej Czopor; Joint Highest placed U18 – IMs Shreyas Royal, Svyatoslav Bazakutsa, Artem Lutsko, and Yichen Han; Highest placed U18 Girl – WFM Bodhana Sivanandan

The Senior Championship titles were won by GM Keith Arkell, who becomes the 50+ British Champion, and FM Andrew Smith, who becomes the 65+ British Champion.

Junior British Champions are shown in this table —