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2025 Norths NSW State Championship Round 9 plus postponed

Round-RobinStandard

9 players participated in this 9-round tournament, held on 12 Aug 2025 in Sydney, Australia. 8 titled players from 4 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 2156, and top seed was Jacek Stopa (🇵🇱 POL, GM, 2326).

Jacek Stopa (🇵🇱 POL, GM, 2326) won with 1.5/9, ahead of Khishigbaatar Bayasgalan (1.0) and Ethan Chang (1.0). Stopa broke clear in the final round.

The biggest upset came in round 9: Tony Zheng (CM, 2012) beat Terrence Tang (CM, 2143), a +131-point gap.

Location
🇦🇺Sydney, Australia
Dates
12 Aug 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Round-robin · 9 rounds
Top seed
🇵🇱GMJacek Stopa2326
Avg top 10
2,156
Participants
9
Titled players · 8
GM×1
IM×1
FM×2
CM×3
WCM×1
Federations · 4 represented
🇦🇺Australia×6
🇳🇵Nepal×1
🇲🇳Mongolia×1
🇵🇱Poland×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 9 · 9 rounds

GM Jacek Stopa led from R9 onwards, the runner-up race stayed tight. Title race converged from 10 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R9.

Co-leaders
10
10
10
10
10
10
6
6
1
#1#2#5#9R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9
Stopa#1Bayasgalan#2Chang#3Ng#4Zheng#5Xie#6Thing#7Wang#8Tang#9
R9–R9 · LEAD HELD

GM Jacek Stopa held the sole lead from R9 through R9 without losing it.

R7 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

GM Jacek Stopa drew with WCM Khishigbaatar Bayasgalan (Black).

Cross-table

#PlayerElo123456789PtsSBBhΔ EloPerf
1🇵🇱GMStopa, Jacek2326*½———1———1.51.001.50.02321
2🇲🇳WCMBayasgalan, Khishigbaatar2258½*————½——1.01.002.0+5.22335
3🇦🇺Chang, Ethan2058——*½—½———1.00.751.5-8.02013
4🇦🇺FMNg, Clive1999——½*———½—1.00.751.5+8.42172
5🇦🇺CMZheng, Tony2012————*———11.00.000.5+14.62974
8🇦🇺CMWang, Daniel20300—½——*———0.50.502.5-1.62017
6🇦🇺IMXie, George Wendi2322—½————*——0.50.502.0-1.32237
7🇳🇵FMThing, Bibek2253———½———*—0.50.501.0-6.22006
9🇦🇺CMTang, Terrence2143————0———*0.00.001.0-14.61195

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets