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Perth Major 2025

Open SwissStandard

37 players participated in this 7-round tournament, held from 23 May 2025 to 26 May 2025 in Perth, Scotland. 4 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 0.

Michael Ash (🇬🇧 SCO, 0) won with 6.0/7, ahead of Nick Webb (5.5) and Mark Gyalus (5.0). Ash shared the lead from round 4 and won solo starting round 5.

Location
🇬🇧Perth, Scotland
Dates
23 May 2025 → 26 May 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 7 rounds
Avg top 10
0
Participants
37
Federations · 4 represented
🇬🇧Scotland×32
🇭🇺Hungary×1
🇮🇪Ireland×1
🇬🇧England×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 7 rounds

Michael Ash led from R5; +0.5-point edge over the runner-up. Title race converged from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R5.

Co-leaders
13
3
1
2
1
1
1
23.55.57R1R2R3R4R5R6R7Ash takes lead
R5 · LEADER CHANGE25 May

Michael Ash takes the sole lead (4.5/5).

R5 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Michael Ash beat Nick Webb (White).

WIN STREAKS · 3 top finishers

Michael Ash 4 wins (R3–R6)Nick Webb 3 wins (R2–R4)Mark Gyalus 3 wins (R1–R3)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Michael Ash*
1
½
2Nick Webb
0
*
1
1
3Mark Gyalus
½
0
*
4John McKenna
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Ash, Michael0SCO+34B=4N+15B+13N+2B+5N=3B6.027.027.022.252040+87.6
2Webb, Nick0IRL=24B+19N+29B+3N1N+9B+7B5.526.028.020.501891+2.6
3Gyalus, Mark0HUN+14N+26B+22N2B=9N+6B=1N5.027.029.519.001894+15.4
4McGregor, Donald0SCO+28N=1B=21N=16B=8N+22B=6N4.525.027.516.501765+23.6
5Lopez Henderson, Kyle0SCOF+20B=6N+25B+22N1B+12N4.524.024.015.751769+27.2
6Montgomery, David C0SCO+35B=30N=5B+17N+12B3N=4B4.523.023.012.751674-22.0
7McKenna, John0SCO+25N22B+14N+30B=21N+16B2N4.522.524.013.751865+26.2
8Aitchison, A Keith0SCO30B+35N=18B=10N=4B+29N+17B4.519.019.011.501675-9.6
9Lennox, Moray E S0SCO+31B=11N=13B+15N=3B2N=10N4.026.027.513.5017540.0
10Hall, David G0SCO+18B15N17B=8B+20N+19N=9B4.022.526.014.751668-8.0
11Boyd, William0SCO+17B=9B=16N12N+23B=13N=15N4.022.525.514.0016520.0
12Nield, Christopher0SCO22N+23B+26N+11B6N+15B5B4.022.525.013.001662-12.8
13Galbraith, Joe0SCO=20N+32B=9N1B+30N=11B=16N4.022.523.510.001658-17.2
14Uegaki, Haruo0SCO3B+33N7B23N+34N+25B+24N4.018.518.56.001690+11.6
15Sandham, Alasdair0SCO+36N+10B1N9B+25N12N=11B3.525.025.09.001647+7.2
16Al Dakl Alla, Humam0SCOF+24N=11B=4N+18B7N=13B3.523.523.512.751717+8.0
17Mallick, Sai0SCO11N+27B+10N6B+26N=21B8N3.523.025.510.7517490.0
18Evans, Luke0SCO10N+28B=8N+32B16N+30B21N3.519.520.57.2515720.0
19Washington, Ian0SCO=23N2B25N+34B+32N10B+22N3.519.519.55.501653+1.0
20Bhaskar, Sriram0SCO=13B5N=23B=31N10B+33N+29B3.519.019.06.2516200.0
21Simpson, Carrick0SCO+27NF=4BF=7B=17N+18B3.518.518.512.251750-14.4
22Galbraith, David0SCO+12B+7N3B+29N5B4N19B3.026.028.010.5016430.0
23Victor McCallum0SCO=19B12N=20N+14B11N24B+30N3.022.023.59.0016430.0
24Wan, Kam0SCO=2N16B32N+28B=27B+23N14B3.021.022.09.501487-29.6
25Gourlay, Greig0SCO7B+34N+19B5N15B14N+33B3.020.020.03.5015120.0
26Aitken, Thomas W0SCO+33B3N12B=27N17B+32NF2.516.016.02.251424-38.4
27Saemundsson, Thor0SCO21B17N+33B=26B=24N=28NF2.515.015.04.001600+4.2
28Bhaduri, Atrasnu0SCO4B18N+35B24N+33N=27B31B2.515.015.01.2512570.0
29Walters, Philip0ENGF+37B2N22B+31N8B20N2.018.018.01.501582-20.8
30McCusker, Kirsty0SCO+8N=6BF7N13B18N23B1.524.024.06.751686+13.0
31Alomenu, Gilbert0SCO9NFF=20B29BF+28N1.512.012.04.25918-8.0
32Heron, Andy0SCOF13N+24B18N19B26BF1.016.516.53.0015200.0
33FIDE 2405091026N14B27NF28B20B25N0.018.018.00.008190.0
34Flood, Raymond0SCO1N25BF19N14BFF0.016.516.50.00878-61.6
35FIDE 241308606N8B28NFFFF0.011.511.50.009640.0
36Ganesh, Krishiv0SCO15BFFFFFF0.03.53.50.008010.0
37Sathiyamoorthy, Magizhan0SCOF29NFFFFF0.02.02.00.009180.0

Key insights

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