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Scottish Championship Weekday U1800 2025

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25 players participated in this 6-round tournament, held from 07 Jul 2025 to 10 Jul 2025 in Dunfermline, Scotland. 2 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 1733, and top seed was Douglas S Heatlie (🇬🇧 SCO, 1833).

James Graham (🇬🇧 SCO, 1762) won with 5.0/6, ahead of David Galbraith (5.0) and Gregor McCloskey (4.5). Graham won on tie-break after catching the field in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 1: Anika Munshi (1654) beat Douglas S Heatlie (1833), a +179-point gap.

Location
🇬🇧Dunfermline, Scotland
Dates
07 Jul 2025 → 10 Jul 2025
Time control
Standard: 110 minutes for game with 10 sec increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 6 rounds
Top seed
🇬🇧Douglas S Heatlie1833
Avg top 10
1,733
Participants
25
Federations · 2 represented
🇬🇧Scotland×24
🇬🇧England×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 6 rounds

Tight race until R6; 2 players tied at 5.0/6, decided on Buchholz.

Co-leaders
10
3
1
1
1
2
1.534.56R1R2R3R4R5R6McCloskey takes lead
Galbraith5Graham5McCloskey4.5Gunn-Russell4McConnell4Zamvar3.5
R5 · LEADER CHANGE10 Jul

Gregor McCloskey takes the sole lead (4.5/5).

R6 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 5.0/6. Graham takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (18.0).

WIN STREAKS · 3 top finishers

David Galbraith 5 wins (R2–R6)James Graham 4 wins (R1–R4)Gregor McCloskey 3 wins (R3–R5)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1David Galbraith*—
1
—
2James Graham—*
0
—
3Gregor McCloskey
0
1
*
1
4Charles Gunn-Russell——
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Graham, James1762SCO+8B+12N+6B+10N−3B+7N5.018.021.016.502459+72.8
2Galbraith, David0SCO−11N+23B+13N+17B+16N+3N5.014.515.512.501938+63.2
3McCloskey, Gregor0SCO+18B=10N+4B+5N+1N−2B4.521.023.016.5017400.0
4McConnell, Ivor0SCO=16N+19B−3N+22B=10N+9B4.015.016.59.501817+18.4
5Gunn-Russell, Charles0SCO+15N+25B=11N−3B=17N+10B4.015.016.09.001954+44.4
6Chen, Eric Kairui0SCO+13N+9B−1N=11B−7B+20N3.518.020.010.0016350.0
7Zamvar, Vipin1700SCO+23N=11B=17N=16B+6N−1B3.515.516.58.001686-1.6
8Bhaskar, Sriram1673SCO−1N=14B=19N+20B=15N+18B3.514.016.07.501662-2.8
9Boyd, William0SCO=22B−6N+24B+12N+19B−4N3.514.015.06.7516390.0
10Munshi, Anika1654SCO+14N=3B+25N−1B=4B−5N3.020.021.07.751744+24.8
11Clegg, Robert1744ENG+2B=7N=5B=6N=12BF3.019.019.012.001787+4.4
12Sandham, Alasdair1611SCO+20N−1B=16N−9B=11N+21B3.015.517.56.501676+14.4
13Anderson, Dani0SCO−6B+18N−2BF+22N+17B3.014.014.05.501821+14.8
14Heatlie, Douglas S1833SCO−10B=8N=22B=19N−18N+16B2.512.514.05.501563-34.8
15Aitken, Thomas W1688SCO−5B=24N=20B+23N=8BF2.511.511.54.251659+1.2
16Brown, Gerry1717SCO=4B=22N=12B=7N−2B−14N2.018.019.56.001543-49.2
17Sneddon, Iain D1766SCO+21NF=7B−2N=5B−13N2.017.517.55.751624-38.4
18Kovalevskij, Alan0SCO−3N−13B+21NF+14B−8N2.015.515.54.501694+30.0
19Cassidy, Bernard0SCOF−4N=8B=14B−9N+22N2.015.015.04.501672+7.2
20Bhaduri, Anjishnu0SCO−12B=21B=15N−8N+24B−6B2.014.515.53.2514330.0
21Wilson, Florence1571SCO−17B=20N−18B=24N+23B−12N2.010.011.02.501421-15.6
22Bhaduri, Atrasnu0SCO=9N=16B=14N−4N−13B−19B1.515.017.04.001479-6.4
23Watson, Dave1587SCO−7B−2NF−15B−21N+24B1.014.014.01.00853-54.4
24Govil, Arnav0SCO−25B=15B−9N=21B−20N−23N1.011.012.02.2514340.0
25Hall, David G1797SCO+24N−5N−10BFFF1.08.08.01.00912-22.4

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets