From the British | Events | Nominations | Deferred from 2015
By Title
Former British Champions
Aagaard, Jacob; Adams, Michael; Barden, Leonard; Bellin, Robert; Botterill, George S; Conquest, Stuart C; Eley, Brian; Gallagher, Joseph G; Hartston, William R; Hawkins, Jonathan; Haygarth, Michael; Hennigan, Michael T; Hodgson, Julian M; Howell, David W L; Jones, Gawain C B; Keene, Raymond D; Lee, Peter; Littlewood, Paul; Mestel, A Jonathan; Nunn, John D M; Penrose, Jonathan; Plaskett, H James; Rowson, Jonathan; Sadler, Matthew D; Short, Nigel D; Speelman, John; Ward, Chris G; Watson, William N
Grandmasters
Arkell, Keith C; Baburin, Alexander; Conquest, Stuart C; Davies, Nigel R; Emms, John M; Flear, Glenn C; Gordon, Stephen J; Gormally, Daniel W; Haslinger, Stewart G; Hebden, Mark L; Howell, James C; King, Daniel J; Kumaran, Dharshan; Levitt, Jonathan P; McDonald, Neil; McNab, Colin A; McShane, Luke J; Motwani, Paul; Parker, Jonathan F; Penrose, Jonathan; Pert, Nicholas; Shaw, John; Stean, Michael F; Summerscale, Aaron P; Turner, Matthew J; Wells, Peter K; Williams, Simon K
Former British Womens Champions
Arakhamia-Grant, Ketevan; Bellin, Jana; Buckley, Melanie; Clarke, Margaret Eileen; Doulton, Joan; Hegarty, Sarah; Hoare, Amy; Houska, Jovanka; Hunt, Harriet; Jackson, Sheila; Kalaiyalahan, Akshaya; Lalic, Susan; Milligan, Helen; Moore, Gillian; Mothersill, Anne; Norman, Dinah Margaret; Richmond, Jane; Warwick, Cathy
Women Grandmasters
Corke, Anya S
Women International Masters
Atkins, Rita; Chevannes, Sabrina L; Maroroa, Sue; Needham, Teresa; Regan, Natasha K; Richards, Heather S; Sachs, Gulnara; Sarakauskiene, Zivile; Sheldon, Ruth
Women FIDE Master > 2000
Bamber, Elaine; Bhatia, Kanwal K; Cast, Abigail; de Lisle, Sarah; Fink-Nunn, Petra; Gedvilaite, Monika; Grigoryan, Meri; Harwar, Julie A; Hegarty, Sarah N; James, Ann-Marie; Kieran, Rosalind A; Norinkeviciute, Rasa; Pass, Deborah J; Richmond, Jane; Tidman, Sophie E; Yurenok, Maria S
Women graded 180 or over
Head, Louise; Kueh, Audrey; Manelidou, Maria; Smith, Olivia; Sucikova, Svetlana
Players graded 218 or over
Buckley, Simon T; Coleman, James; Dorrington, Chris J; Eckersley-Waites, Tom; Galliano, Alexander; Gough, Michael J; Haria, Ravi; Khandelwal, Ankush; Nicholas, Koichi B; Piper, Matthew S; Reid, John; Wallace, Paul A; Weaving, Richard; Webb, Matthew D
Players rated over 2350
Bell, Stephen D; Haygarth, Michael J; Henry, Paul; Kernan, Bernard; Lee, Peter N; Markland, Peter R; Piper, Matthew S; Webb, Roger
Juniors graded 180 or over
Abbas, Daniel; Asenov, Pavel; Ashworth, Michael J; Balaji, Ananthanarayanan; Bansal, Rohan; Brewer, Callum D; Broadley, Henry; Claridge-Hansen, William; Cormican, John A; Craft, Isaac; Dixit, Kumar; Foo, William J; Golding, Alex; Grieve, Harry; Gupta, Arul; Hackner, Oskar A; Haridas, Girinath; Holland, James P; Horton, Jamie A; Kalavannan, Koby; Lau, Jason; Lenier, Jude A; Lentzos, Ioannis; Levene, Joseph; Li, Harry; Liang, Jake Z; Lim, Samuel; Malhotra, Tarun; McClement, Andrew; McPhillips, Joseph; Mitra, Roman C; Murphy, Conor E; Noel, Daniel; Oyama, Akito; Redman, David J; Scott, Gordon W; Slade, Theo; Stepanyan, Henrik; Tarhon, Brian; Taylor, Adam A; Taylor, Adam C; Twigge-Molecey, Billy; Wadsworth, Matthew J; Whatley, Stephen AJ; Whitfield, Craig M; Williams, Peter A (jnr); Willow, Jonah B; Willson, Ollie; Zhang, Anthony Y; Zhang, Roy Y; Zhu, Richard
International Masters
Adair, James R; Ansell, Simon T; Astaneh Lopez, Alex; Baker, Chris W; Basman, Michael J; Bates, Richard A; Beaumont, Chris R; Bradbury, Neil H; Bryson, Douglas M; Buckley, Graeme N; Ciuksyte, Dagne; Cobb, Charles A; Cobb, James; Collins, Sam E.; Condie, Mark L; Cooper, John G; Cooper, Lawrence H; Cox, John J; Crawley, Gavin; Dearing, Eddie; Dunnington, Angus J; D`Costa, Lorin A R; Eggleston, David J; Ferguson, Mark; Fernandez, Daniel H; Ghasi, Ameet K; Goodman, David S C; Greet, Andrew N; Hanley, Craig A; Hawksworth, John C; Heidenfeld, Mark; Horner, Jeff; Houska, Miroslav; Hunt, Adam C; Jacobs, Byron A; Jones, Richard S; Kelly, Brian; Kinsman, Andrew P H; Knott, Simon J B; Kolbus, Dietmar; Large, Peter G; Lawton, Geoff W; Ledger, Andrew J; Levy, David N L; Mah, Karl C C; Mannion, Stephen R; Martin, Andrew D; McKay, Roderick M; Morris, Philip J; Mortazavi, Ali; Muir, Andrew J; Orr, Mark J L; Palliser, Richard J D; Pein, Malcolm; Pert, Richard G; Povah, Nigel E; Pritchett, Craig W; Quillan, Gary; Quinn, Mark; Rendle, Thomas E; Roberson, Peter T; Rudd, Jack; Sarakauskas, Gediminas; Taulbut, Shaun M; Thomas, Ian; Tozer, Richard J D; Trent, Lawrence; Wall, Gavin; Webster, Andrew A; Williams, Leighton; Zhou, Yang-Fan
FIDE Master > 2200
Alfred, Nathan S W; Allicock, Rawle A; Ashton, Adam G; Barnes, Michael H; Batchelor, Peter; Bennett, Gerald H; Berry, Neil; Berry, Stephen H; Bigg, Andrew J; Bisby, Daniel L; Brady, Stephen; Britton, Richard L; Broomfield, Matthew P; Brown, Simon D; Burgess, Graham K; Burnett, Andrew; Burgess, Mark R; Cavendish, James; Chapman, Terry P D; Clarke, Stuart W; Collinson, Adam R; Constantinou, Peter; Cooksey, Paul S; Corkett, Anthony R; Cullip, Stephen J; Daly, Colm; Delaney, John; Delaney, Paul; Dickenson, Neil F; Duncan, Chris R; Dunne, David; Dunworth, Christopher N; Eales, Richard G; Eames, Robert S; Fernandez, Michael; Fitzsimons, David; Forster, Michael C; Franklin, Samuel G A; Friedgood, David; Gourlay, Iain; Griffiths, Ryan Rhys; Hanreck, Alan E; Harley, Andrew D; Harvey, Marcus R; Haydon, David L; Hindle, Owen M; Holmes, Donald A; Horton, Andrew P; Hutchings, Stuart J; Jackson, James P; Jamieson, Peter M; Jessel, Stephen; Jones, Andrew; Kennaugh, Charles W; Kenworthy, Gary; Kilpatrick, Callum; Kirk, Ezra; Lawson, David; Ledger, Dave J; Lee, Graham D; Lewis, Andrew P; Lobo, Richard; Longson, Alexander; Lyell, Mark; MacKay, Ian D; Martyn, Rafe; McCamon, Boyd; Merry, Alan B; Mordue, A Tyson; Morrison, Graham; Moskovic, David M; Moss, Robin B W; Norris, Alan J; O’Connell, Kevin J; O’Donnell, Conor; Pigott, John C; Poobalasingam, Peter S; Rayner, Emmanuel; Rees, Ioan; Richardson, John R; Rogers, Jonathan W; Rossiter, Philip J; Rumens, David E; Ruxton, Keith; Sanchez Botella, Luis J; Sanders, Isaac B; Savage, Ben D M; Shaw, Robert; Short, Philip M; Shovel, Kenneth; Sowray, Peter J; Sreeves, Clement; Stebbings, Anthony J; Storey, Charles H; Strugnell, Carl; Swan, Iain; Tan, Desmond T N; Tan, Justin; Tate, Alan; Taylor, Martin R; Teichmann, Erik O M C; Therrien, Alex L; Thomas, Nicholas; Thomson, Craig S M; Vigus, James E; Waddingham, Graham A; Walker, David J; Wall, Tim P; Webb, Laurence E; Webb, Richard M; White, Michael J R; Wicker, Kevin J; Wiley, Tom E; Williams, A. Howard; Wilson, Jonathan G; Wood, David A; Woodward, Timothy D M; Zeidler, Sven P
From the British
British Championship 2015 – Wadsworth, Matthew; Jones, Steven A; Weaving, Richard; Hackner, Oskar; Burrows, Martin; Mason, Donald; Zhang, Anthony; Wadsworth, Matthew; Scott, Gordon
Major Open 2015 – Gill, Oliver; Talbot, Nathan; Moreby, James
Over 50 Champion – House, Glenn
Under 21/18/16 Champions – Ashworth, Michael
From Events
| Dates | Event | Why | Country | Qualifiers |
| 11-17 July | South Wales International | FIDE | Wales | Davis, Lee; Young, Alan |
| 11-19 July | Scottish Championships | FIDE | Scotland | Grant, Jonathan; McQueen, Callum; Green, Andrew; Brown, Alan; Olson, Hamish; Kafka, Graham |
| 11-19 July | Scottish Championships (cont.) | FIDE | Scotland | Stevenson, James; Bhopal, Raj; Burnett, Walter; Shafi, Declan; Heron, Donald; Begg, David |
| 25- 6 July | British: Rapidplay Open | FIDE Rapidplay | England | Surtees, Mike J; Mihalik, Agoston |
| 27- 1 July | British: Week 1 AM Open | FIDE | England | Crocker, Philip J |
| 27-31 July | British: Week 1 PM Open | FIDE | England | Walker, Samuel A; Freeland, Alex; Dalton, Joseph; Kett, Tim |
| 31 July-2 August | British: Weekend Open | FIDE | England | Carleton, John J; |
| 3-7 August | British: Week 2 AM Open | FIDE | England | Moore, Graham J; Davison, Chris |
| 3-7 August | British: Week 2 PM Open | FIDE | England | Wells, Jonathan C |
| 21-23 August | Thanet Congress | SCCU Nomination | England | Anderson, John; McCorry, Robert T; Cutmore, David A |
| 21-23 August | Steve Boniface Memorial | FIDE | England | Bicknell, Carl |
| 24-29 August | Jessie Gilbert Masters | FIDE | England | [8 entries] |
| 29-30 August | 4NCL Rapidplay Open | FIDE Rapidplay | England | Martin, Lewis; Sygnowski, Tomasz; Page, Mark E; Walton, Alan J; Golimowski, Pawel; Ali, Golam S |
| 28-31 August | South Wales: Summer | FIDE | Wales | Turner, Joseph D; Heaven, Peter |
| 29-31 August | Leyland | FIDE | England | Brown, Martin |
| 29-31 August | Berks & Bucks | FIDE | England | de Coverly, Roger D; Rogers, Tim L |
| 5-6 September | CCF Late Summer | FIDE | England | Bridge, Neil A; Kalavannan, Koby |
| 11-13 September | 4NCL: Bolton (4th) | FIDE | England | Jarmany, John; Fernandez, Michael; Mazek, Marek |
| 11-13 September | Inverness | FIDE | Scotland | [19 entries] |
| 11-13 September | Dublin | FIDE | Ireland | [12 entries] |
| 13-19 September | Paignton | FIDE | England | Brusey, Alan W |
| 18-20 September | Munster | FIDE | Ireland | [18 entries] |
| 25-27 November | Northumberland | FIDE | England | Waters, Clive L; Tavoularis, Nicholas; Turner, James |
| 3-11 October | Pokerstars Open | FIDE | Isle of Man | Allen, Keith; Player, Edmund |
| 9-11 October | South Wales: Autumn | FIDE | Wales | Ralphs, Nigel |
| 18-24 October | Guernsey | FIDE | Guernsey | Wager, John; Hewson, Brian |
| 23-25 October | Scarborough | Top 6 | England | Thestrup, Sixten; Rayner, Francis |
| 24-25 October | Bury St. Edmunds | Top 6 | England | Spence, David |
| 24-25 October | Bury St. Edmunds | EACU Nomination | England | Varnam, Liam; Elwin, Adrian |
| 24-26 October | Limerick | FIDE | Ireland | O’Gorman, Tom; Moran, Stephen |
| 7-8 November | Hertfordshire | SCCU Championship | England | Coleman, David |
| 27-29 November | 4NCL Wokefield (5th) | FIDE | England | [cancelled] |
| 27-29 November | Bristol Winter | FIDE | England | Malkiel, Daniel; Hill, Alistair; Graham, David B; Savory, Richard; Morris, Gareth; Dilleigh, Stephen |
| 4-6 December | London Classic: Weekend Open | FIDE | England | O’Toole, George; Roberts, Paul E; Healey, Michael; Anilkumar, Anantha P; |
| 4-11 December | London Classic: FIDE Open | FIDE | England | Cumming, Rhys; Williamson, Roger; Lam, Daniel K W**; Peiris, Gayan M |
| 12-13 December | London Classic: Super Rapidplay | FIDE Rapidplay | England | Pitcher, John; Tambini, Jasper; Cavendish, Joshua |
| 12-30 December | London Junior: Northwick Park | Top 6 | England | [9 entries] |
| 28-30 December | London Junior: Christmas Open | FIDE | England | Willmoth, Rob; Rajesh, Gorak |
| 28 December-5 January | Hastings: Masters | FIDE/SCCU Nomination | England | Golding, James; Tarhon, Brian; Hand, Freddie |
| 8-10 January | South Wales: New Year | FIDE | Wales | Brown, Thomas; Rodriguez, Juan Talavera |
| 8-10 January | 4NCL: Wetherby (6th) | FIDE | England | Burnett, Jim; Jarmany, John |
| 8-10 January | Shropshire | FIDE | England | Maciol, Ryszard |
| 26 January-3 February | Tradewise Gibraltar Masters | FIDE | England | Byron, Alan; Eagleton, Greg |
| 29-31 January | 4NCL: Birmingham (7th) | FIDE | England | Delaney, Killian; Modi, Shyam Jagdish |
| 29-31 January | Livingston | FIDE | Scotland | Frew, Elliot; Archibong, Ubong; Thomson, Neil |
| 6-7 February | Kidlington | Top 6 | England | James, Russell A; Meadows, Michael |
| 19-21 February | e2e4 Gatwick | FIDE | England | Klingher, Dominic; Brackmann, Hendrik |
| 19-21 February | Perth | FIDE | Scotland | Roberts, Paul; Abdulla, Murad |
| 26-28 February | Doncaster | Top 6 | England | Pitcher, Thomas |
| 26-28 February | Dyfed | FIDE | Wales | Jameson, David; Hewitt, William |
| 26-28 February | Bristol Spring Congress | FIDE | England | Meek, Stephen |
| 5-6 March | Warwickshire | MCCU Nomination | England | Okhai, Shabir; Pink, Joshua; Ackley, Peter, Hynes, Tony; Sygnowski, Tomasz |
| 11-13 March | Blackpool | Top 6 | England | Merriman, John; Phillips, David A; Milson, Samuel; Gayson, Peter |
| 25-26 March | CCF Easter Longplay Congress | FIDE | England | Brooks, Phil J |
| 25-27 March | Bolton Easter Congress | FIDE/MCCU Nomination | England | Jaunooby, Ali; Duke, Michael; Newton, Bob |
| 25-28 March | 60th Southend Chess Congress | FIDE | England | Gallagher, Daniel; Ledger, Stephen |
| 25-28 March | WECU Congress | WECU Championship | England | Menadue, Jeremy |
| 25-28 March | WECU Congress | FIDE | England | McMichael, Richard |
| 25-28 March | Welsh Chess Championship | FIDE | Wales | Gibbs, Dominic; Summers, Charles |
| 1-3 April | 4NCL: Wakefield (8th) | FIDE | England | Shaw, Peter |
| 2-10 April | Colin Crouch Memorial Open | FIDE | England | Ross, Chris |
| 8-10 April | Edinburgh | FIDE | Scotland | Schwartz, Julius |
| 10-16 April | Jersey | FIDE | Jersey | Heppell, Ian |
| 22-23 April | Central London Chess Congress | FIDE | England | Gray, Mark |
| 23-24 April | Great Yarmouth | EACU Nomination | England | Gregory, Stephen |
| 16-17 April | Nottingham | MCCU Nomination | England | Fallowfield, Jeremy; Bennett, William; Arkell, Nicholas |
| 13-15 May | Frome Chess Congress | FIDE | England | Crockart, George; Crockart, Scott: Onley, David |
| 27-29 May | Ayr | FIDE | Scotland | Findlay, David John |
| 27-30 May | e2e4 Gatwick Whitsun Congress | FIDE | England | Moore, Geoffrey |
| 3-5 June | South Lakes | FIDE | England | Peacock, Malcolm R |
| 4-5 June | EACU Congress | EACU Nomination | England | Starley, Robert; Hebbes, Tim |
| 10-12 June | Bristol Summer Congress | FIDE | England | Waterfield, John |
| Wiltshire & West of England | WECU Nomination | England | ||
| Frome | WECU Nomination | England | Payne, Matthew | |
| Torquay | WECU Nomination | England | ||
| (Held after 2016 British) | MCCU Championship | England | ||
| NCCU Championship | England | Birkett, Richard | ||
| NCCU Nomination | England | |||
| NCCU Nomination | England | |||
| NCCU Nomination | England | |||
| EACU Champion | England |
** dependent on eligibility (nationality unknown)
Nominations
Chess Scotland 1; Chess Scotland 2; Chess Scotland 3; Chess Scotland 4; Irish Chess Union 1; Irish Chess Union 2; Irish Chess Union 3; Welsh Chess Union 1; Welsh Chess Union 2; Welsh Chess Union 3; Ulster Chess Union 1; Ulster Chess Union 2; Guernsey Chess Federation; Isle of Man Chess Association; Jersey Chess Federation
President of the ECF – Zoe Varney; Director of Home Chess; Director of International Chess; Director of Junior Chess & Education – Taran Jina; Manager of British Championship
Deferrals from 2015
Higgs, Joshua; van Kemenade, Rudy; Spanton, Tim; Kett, Tim; Talbot, Mark; Savory, Richard; Keely, Leo A
Deferrals to 2017
Jarmany, John; Page, Mark; Meadows, Michael; George Crockart; Scott Crockart; David Onley; Meek, Stephen