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2025 Rooty Hill Club Championship Division D Rounds 8-9

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10 players participated in this 9-round tournament, held from 05 Aug 2025 to 12 Aug 2025 in Sydney, Australia. Top 10 Elo average was 437, and top seed was Taran Nisha Raj (🇦🇺 AUS, 1478).

John Lester Dignadice (🇦🇺 AUS, 0) won with 2.0/9, ahead of Taran Nisha Raj (2.0) and Muhammad Daniyal Azeem (1.5).

Location
🇦🇺Sydney, Australia
Dates
05 Aug 2025 → 12 Aug 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 9 rounds
Top seed
🇦🇺Taran Nisha Raj1478
Avg top 10
437
Participants
10
Federations · 1 represented
🇦🇺Australia×9
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 9 rounds

Tight race until R9; 2 players tied at 2.0/9, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 42 co-leaders at R4 to 8 at the finish.

Co-leaders
42
42
42
42
42
42
42
16
8
2.54.579R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9
R9 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 2.0/9. Dignadice takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (1.0).

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Dignadice, John Lester0AUSFFFFFFF+?B+4B2.01.01.01.0014640.0
2Nisha Raj, Taran1478AUSFFFFFFF+10B+8N2.00.50.50.502253+22.8
3Azeem, Muhammad Daniyal0AUSFFFFFFF=8B+?N1.50.50.50.2514690.0
4Suresh, Krishnan0AUSFFFFFFF+5B−1N1.03.03.01.0014600.0
5Daniel, Ariye1457AUSFFFFFFF−4N+6B1.02.02.01.002362+26.8
6Karthikeyan, Dharshan0AUSFFFFFFF+7B−5N1.02.02.01.00640-26.8
7Brady, Kayden0AUSFFFFFFF−6N+?B1.01.01.00.007620.0
8Vagh, Riyan1431AUSFFFFFFF=3N−2B0.53.53.50.75603-22.8
9FIDE 32926140—FFFFFFF=?N−?B0.50.00.00.0014020.0
10Zhang, Elvin0AUSFFFFFFF−2N−?B0.02.02.00.006030.0

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