2025 Burwood IM Round Robin

Round-RobinStandard

10 players participated in this 9-round tournament, held from 13 Oct 2025 to 14 Nov 2025 in Sydney, Australia. 10 titled players from 5 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 2293, and top seed was Igor Bjelobrk (🇦🇺 AUS, IM, 2397).

Reyaansh Chakrabarty (🇦🇺 AUS, FM, 2279) won with 6.5/9, ahead of Trevor Tao (6.0) and Igor Bjelobrk (6.0). Chakrabarty shared the lead from round 6 and won solo starting round 7.

Location

🇦🇺Sydney, Australia

Dates

13 Oct 2025 → 14 Nov 2025

Time control

Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1

System

Round-robin · 9 rounds

Top seed

🇦🇺IMIgor Bjelobrk2397

Avg top 10

2,293

Participants

Titled players · 10

GM×1

IM×3

FM×5

WCM×1

Federations · 5 represented

🇦🇺Australia×6

🇳🇵Nepal×1

🇨🇴Colombia×1

🇲🇳Mongolia×1

🇵🇱Poland×1

Top 3

🥇
FMReyaansh Chakrabarty
🇦🇺AUS·2279
6.5pts·2460perf+43.8
🥈
IMTrevor Tao
🇦🇺AUS·2343
6.0pts·2412perf+8.2
🥉
IMIgor Bjelobrk
🇦🇺AUS·2397
6.0pts·2406perf+0.9

How it unfolded

Top 10 · 9 rounds

FM Reyaansh Chakrabarty led from R7 onwards, the runner-up race stayed tight. Title race converged from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R7.

Co-leaders

Chakrabarty#1Tao#2Bjelobrk#3Vargas Arteaga#4Thing#5Stopa#6Bayaca#7Xie#8Hu#9Bayasgalan#10

R7 · LEADER CHANGE03 Nov

FM Reyaansh Chakrabarty takes the sole lead (5.5/7).

R4 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

FM Reyaansh Chakrabarty drew with IM Trevor Tao (White).

R5–R7 · WIN STREAK

FM Reyaansh Chakrabarty won 3 in a row (R5–R7).

Cross-table

#	Player	Elo	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pts	SB	Bh	Δ Elo	Perf
1	🇦🇺FMChakrabarty, Reyaansh	2279	*	½	½	½	½	1	1	½	1	1	6.5	25.00	38.5	+43.8	2460
2	🇦🇺IMTao, Trevor	2343	½	*	1	½	0	1	½	½	1	1	6.0	23.50	39.0	+8.2	2412
3	🇦🇺IMBjelobrk, Igor	2397	½	0	*	½	1	½	1	½	1	1	6.0	22.75	39.0	+0.9	2406
4	🇨🇴FMVargas Arteaga, Alexis	2235	½	½	½	*	0	½	1	1	1	1	6.0	22.00	39.0	+45.8	2424
5	🇳🇵FMThing, Bibek	2253	½	1	0	1	*	0	½	1	½	1	5.5	22.75	39.5	+30.6	2377
6	🇵🇱GMStopa, Jacek	2335	0	0	½	½	1	*	½	½	1	½	4.5	17.75	40.5	-5.8	2288
7	🇦🇺FMBayaca, Sterling	2243	0	½	0	0	½	½	*	½	1	1	4.0	12.75	41.0	+3.6	2255
8	🇦🇺IMXie, George Wendi	2333	½	½	½	0	0	½	½	*	0	1	3.5	14.50	41.5	-15.6	2208
9	🇦🇺FMHu, Yifei	2240	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	1	*	½	2.0	6.75	43.0	-71.6	2078
10	🇲🇳WCMBayasgalan, Khishigbaatar	2268	0	0	0	0	0	½	0	0	½	*	1.0	3.25	44.0	-63.4	1944

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers

1Vargas Arteaga, AlexisFMCOL
+45.8
6.0 pts · #4
2Chakrabarty, ReyaanshFMAUS
+43.8
6.5 pts · #1
3Thing, BibekFMNEP
+30.6
5.5 pts · #5

Top rating losers

1Hu, YifeiFMAUS
-71.6
2.0 pts · #9
2Bayasgalan, KhishigbaatarWCMMGL
-63.4
1.0 pts · #10
3Xie, George WendiIMAUS
-15.6
3.5 pts · #8