2025 Norths Purdy Minor Rounds 1-3

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68 players participated in this 3-round tournament, held from 09 Sept 2025 to 23 Sept 2025 in Sydney, Australia. 3 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 0.

Alexi Pavlidis (🇦🇺 AUS, 0) won with 3.0/3, ahead of Ray Sheng (3.0) and Suria Daniel (3.0). Pavlidis shared the lead from round 2, winning on tie-break.

Location

🇦🇺Sydney, Australia

Dates

09 Sept 2025 → 23 Sept 2025

Time control

Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1

System

Swiss · 3 rounds

Avg top 10

Participants

Federations · 3 represented

🇦🇺Australia×64

🇳🇿New Zealand×2

🇮🇳India×1

Top 3

🥇
Alexi Pavlidis
🇦🇺AUS
3.0pts·2289perf+13.2
🥈
Ray Sheng
🇦🇺AUS
3.0pts·2388perf+22.8
🥉
Suria Daniel
🇦🇺AUS
3.0pts·2369perf+30.8

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 3 rounds

Tight race until R3; 4 players tied at 3.0/3, decided on Buchholz.

Co-leaders

Sheng3Pavlidis3Yuan3Daniel3Srinivasan2.5Cook2.5

R3 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

4 players finish on 3.0/3. Pavlidis takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (4.0).

WIN STREAKS · 3 top finishers

Ray Sheng 3 wins (R1–R3)Alexi Pavlidis 3 wins (R1–R3)Winson Yuan 3 wins (R1–R3)

Grille américaine

#	Player	Fed	R1	R2	R3	Pts	Bu C1	Bu	SB	Perf	Δ
1	Pavlidis, Alexi	AUS	+29N	+16B	+12N	3.0	4.0	5.0	5.00	2289	+13.2
2	Sheng, Ray	AUS	+31B	+30N	+11B	3.0	3.0	4.0	4.00	2388	+22.8
3	Daniel, Suria	AUS	+59N	+33B	+15N	3.0	3.0	3.0	3.00	2369	+30.8
4	Yuan, Winson	AUS	+28B	+34N	+32B	3.0	2.0	3.0	3.00	2372	+31.2
5	Huang, Thomas	AUS	+25N	=7B	+23N	2.5	4.0	5.5	4.25	1874	+30.4
6	Wang, Isaac (Yijun)	AUS	+61N	+18B	=14N	2.5	4.0	4.0	3.00	1800	+30.8
7	Liu, Max (qixuan)	AUS	+42B	=5N	+40B	2.5	3.5	4.5	3.25	1834	+6.0
8	Srikaanth Srinivasan	IND	+37N	=20B	+21N	2.5	3.0	4.0	3.25	1831	+17.4
9	Cook, David	AUS	=22B	+24N	+39B	2.5	3.0	4.0	3.25	1827	+10.2
10	Corona, Fabrizio	AUS	+43N	=21B	+20N	2.5	3.0	4.0	3.25	1793	+10.0
11	Lade, Ian	AUS	+62N	+17B	−2N	2.0	5.0	5.0	2.00	1747	+16.2
12	Zhu, Maxwell	AUS	+60B	+13N	−1B	2.0	5.0	5.0	2.00	1628	0.0
13	Stern, David	AUS	+19N	−12B	+29N	2.0	4.0	5.0	3.00	2276	+11.4
14	Savery, Tamsin	AUS	+38N	=23B	=6B	2.0	4.0	5.0	3.00	1657	+1.2
15	Renaud, Christopher	AUS	+?B	+41N	−3B	2.0	4.0	4.0	1.00	1640	0.0
16	Xie, Leo	AUS	+63B	−1N	+35B	2.0	4.0	4.0	1.00	818	-16.4
17	Woon, Ella	AUS	+46B	−11N	+22B	2.0	3.5	4.5	2.50	1685	+1.2
18	Beeh, Tom	AUS	+36B	−6N	+28B	2.0	3.5	4.5	2.00	1506	-3.8
19	Zhang, Emma	AUS	−13B	+60N	+30B	2.0	3.0	3.0	1.00	838	-14.0
20	Yip, Brendan	AUS	+35B	=8N	−10B	1.5	5.0	6.0	2.25	1402	-24.4
21	Hughes, Hugo	AUS	+67B	=10N	−8B	1.5	5.0	5.0	1.25	1402	-16.8
22	Boccalatte, Mark	AUS	=9N	+26B	−17N	1.5	4.5	6.0	2.75	1663	+11.2
23	Kuncoro, Harvey	AUS	+54B	=14N	−5B	1.5	4.5	5.0	1.50	1416	-16.4
24	Agare, Jean-Yves	AUS	=26N	−9B	+53N	1.5	4.0	4.5	1.25	1616	+5.4
25	Dingley, Gary	AUS	−5B	+36N	=31B	1.5	3.5	4.5	1.50	1414	0.0
26	Aleksovski, Bosko	AUS	=24B	−22N	+59B	1.5	3.0	3.0	0.75	1558	-6.6
27	Gupta, Dhwani	AUS	+64B	−32N	=56B	1.5	1.5	1.5	0.25	2278	+11.6
28	Sandhu, Leo	AUS	−4N	+62B	−18N	1.0	5.0	5.0	0.00	1430	-5.8
29	Xi, Cheng	AUS	−1B	+63N	−13B	1.0	5.0	5.0	0.00	828	-18.8
30	Chang, Ike	AUS	+65N	−2B	−19N	1.0	5.0	5.0	0.00	841	0.0
31	Mahajan, Zariya	AUS	−2N	=53B	=25N	1.0	4.5	5.0	1.00	1451	-19.2
32	Wilkins, Benjamin	AUS	F	+27B	−4N	1.0	4.5	4.5	1.50	1645	0.0
33	Simpson, Sam	AUS	+44B	−3N	F	1.0	4.0	4.0	1.00	1651	+4.8
34	Shi, Lucas	AUS	F	−4B	+45N	1.0	4.0	4.0	1.00	854	-19.2
35	Threlfall, Leo	AUS	−20N	+37B	−16N	1.0	3.5	4.5	1.00	1429	0.0
36	Kulkarni, Mahesh	AUS	−18N	−25B	+62N	1.0	3.5	3.5	0.00	1506	0.0
37	Daniel, Ariye	AUS	−8B	−35N	+63B	1.0	3.5	3.5	0.00	790	-13.6
38	Gemenis, Jason	AUS	−14B	+47N	−50B	1.0	3.0	4.0	1.00	1468	-3.6
39	Laurie, Robert	AUS	F	+55B	−9N	1.0	3.0	3.0	0.50	1609	+5.0
40	Ventura, Paul	AUS	F	+57B	−7N	1.0	3.0	3.0	0.50	1676	+6.6
41	Wechsler, Ian B	AUS	=55N	−15B	=54N	1.0	2.5	3.0	0.50	1543	-2.8
42	Lowe, Daniel	AUS	−7N	+65B	F	1.0	2.5	2.5	0.00	985	-8.4
43	Harrigan, Nicholas	AUS	−10B	−?N	+61B	1.0	2.5	2.5	0.00	780	0.0
44	Sunay Burman Ray	AUS	−33N	+51B	F	1.0	2.0	2.0	1.00	1564	-9.2
45	Cheung, Cheuk Laam Bosco	AUS	F	+48N	−34B	1.0	2.0	2.0	1.00	1546	0.0
46	Lowe, Adrian	AUS	−17N	+68B	F	1.0	2.0	2.0	0.00	1562	+1.0
47	Suresh, Krishnan	AUS	−49N	−38B	+65N	1.0	2.0	2.0	0.00	764	-30.8
48	Gram, Otto	AUS	F	−45B	+55N	1.0	1.5	1.5	0.50	2343	+12.6
49	Madan, Kyra	AUS	+47B	F	F	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.00	2278	+12.8
50	Liang, Xibing	NZL	F	F	+38N	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.00	2312	+6.0
51	Goldstein, Clio	AUS	F	−44N	+66B	1.0	1.0	1.0	0.00	848	-13.2
52	Macklin, Jayne	AUS	F	F	+64N	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.00	1498	0.0
53	Karthikeyan, Dharshan	AUS	F	=31N	−24B	0.5	2.5	2.5	0.50	1398	-13.6
54	Dai, Amanda Mingyu	AUS	−23N	F	=41B	0.5	2.5	2.5	0.50	1419	0.0
55	Aquilia, Sal	AUS	=41B	−39N	−48B	0.5	2.0	3.0	0.50	1265	-41.2
56	Tan, Winson	AUS	F	F	=27N	0.5	1.5	1.5	0.75	1635	0.0
57	Maleki, Michael	AUS	=58B	−40N	F	0.5	1.5	1.5	0.25	1429	-14.4
58	Barilla, Michael	AUS	=57N	F	F	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.25	1566	-3.4
59	Chegwidden, Lindsay	AUS	−3B	F	−26N	0.0	4.5	4.5	0.00	846	-13.6
60	FIDE 3296288	—	−12N	−19B	F	0.0	4.0	4.0	0.00	730	0.0
61	Wang, Rhyk	AUS	−6B	F	−43N	0.0	3.5	3.5	0.00	709	0.0
62	Jurd, Charles	AUS	−11B	−28N	−36B	0.0	3.0	4.0	0.00	722	-30.8
63	Cheng, Kenneth	AUS	−16N	−29B	−37N	0.0	3.0	4.0	0.00	683	0.0
64	Harker, Steven	AUS	−27N	F	−52B	0.0	2.5	3.0	0.00	835	-11.6
65	Cheng, Cyrus	AUS	−30B	−42N	−47B	0.0	2.0	3.0	0.00	717	0.0
66	Nesheli, Bahar	AUS	F	F	−51N	0.0	2.0	2.0	0.00	719	0.0
67	White, Donald	NZL	−21N	F	F	0.0	1.5	1.5	0.00	765	0.0
68	Xiong, Albert	AUS	F	−46N	F	0.0	1.0	1.0	0.00	742	-14.8

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers

1Yuan, WinsonAUS
+31.2
3.0 pts · #8
2Daniel, SuriaAUS
+30.8
3.0 pts · #11
3Wang, Isaac (Yijun)AUS
+30.8
2.5 pts · #15

Top rating losers

1Aquilia, SalAUS
-41.2
0.5 pts · #48
2Jurd, CharlesAUS
-30.8
0.0 pts · #53
3Suresh, KrishnanAUS
-30.8
1.0 pts · #50