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2025 SA Hosworth Foundation High Flyers

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24 players participated in this 8-round tournament, held from 04 Oct 2025 to 06 Oct 2025 in Adelaide, Australia. 2 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 1621, and top seed was Christopher J Benham (🇦🇺 AUS, 1727).

Samuel Mandic (🇦🇺 AUS, 0) won with 7.0/8, ahead of Sam Smith (5.0) and Oliver Cirami (5.0). Mandic won solo starting round 4.

The biggest upset came in round 3: Connor Caruso (1499) beat Maxime Percrule (1634), a +135-point gap.

Location
🇦🇺Adelaide, Australia
Dates
04 Oct 2025 → 06 Oct 2025
Time control
Standard: 60 minutes with 30 seconds increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 8 rounds
Top seed
🇦🇺Christopher J Benham1727
Avg top 10
1,621
Participants
24
Federations · 2 represented
🇦🇺Australia×20
🇫🇷France×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 8 rounds

Samuel Mandic led from R4; +2.0-point edge over the runner-up.

Co-leaders
9
4
2
1
1
1
1
1
2468R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8
Mandic7Schiavone5Smith5Cirami5Rao4.5Percrule4.5
R4–R8 · LEAD HELD

Samuel Mandic never relinquished the lead after R4; final gap +2.0 over the runner-up.

R5 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Samuel Mandic beat Emmanuel Schiavone (White).

WIN STREAKS · 2 top finishers

Samuel Mandic 7 wins (R1–R7)Emmanuel Schiavone 3 wins (R1–R4)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Samuel Mandic*
1
1
—
2Emmanuel Schiavone
0
*——
3Sam Smith
0
—*
1
4Oliver Cirami——
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Mandic, Samuel0AUS+2N+11B+16N+7N+4B+9N+5BF7.029.529.529.5017690.0
2Smith, Sam1565AUS−1B+3B+15N=10N+7B=8B−9N+6B5.032.535.520.501645+25.6
3Cirami, Oliver1507AUS=22B−2N=13B=5N+23B+20N=8B+7N5.025.026.514.751573+14.8
4Schiavone, Emmanuel1647AUS+15B+10NF+17B−1NF+7B+9B5.025.025.018.002349+37.0
5Percrule, Maxime1634FRA+24N=16B−8N=3B=6N+15B−1N+20B4.529.029.011.751536-9.8
6Rao, Mai0AUS+8B+22N−7B−9N=5B+10N+17B−2N4.528.530.014.7515750.0
7Reiner, Declan1602AUS+14N+21B+6N−1B−2N+17B−4N−3B4.033.034.512.501493-14.6
8Caruso, Connor1499AUS−6N+14B+5B+12N−9B=2N=3N−11B4.031.034.517.001595+30.8
9Berg, Aidan1620AUS+13NFF+6B+8N−1B+2B−4N4.029.029.017.001695+5.6
10Parikh, Pradyun1495AUS+18N−4B+20N=2B−15N−6B+19N=16B4.026.529.012.501507+4.4
11Kasinathan, Raghavendran1616AUS+12B−1NFFF+21N+15B+8N4.022.522.512.502306+28.4
12Li, Hanyue1626AUS−11N+13B+21N−8B−17N−16B+23B+15N4.022.023.59.501435-61.6
13Chen, Bryce0AUS−9B−12N=3N+22B−19B−23N+?B+21N3.520.520.55.5014080.0
14Chen, Max0AUS−7B−8N+22B=23N−21B+24N−20B+18N3.518.018.05.257270.0
15Guiney, Wayne Bertram1412AUS−4N+24B−2B+18N+10B−5N−11N−12B3.029.529.57.001322-22.8
16Benham, Christopher J1727AUSF=5N−1BFF+12N+21B=10N3.029.030.59.751749+2.8
17Medlock, Heath1627AUS+20BFF−4N+12B−7N−6N+19B3.023.023.09.501605-4.8
18FIDE 32969380—−10B−20N+24N−15B+22N−19B+?N−14B3.017.517.51.506800.0
19Wei, Alissa1547AUSFFF+24B+13N+18N−10B−17N3.016.516.56.50756-38.8
20Jerry, Eithen0AUS−17N+18B−10B=21NF−3B+14N−5N2.526.027.57.2511800.0
21Ross, Bill1500AUSF−7N−12B=20B+14N−11B−16N−13B1.524.524.54.75842-23.2
22FIDE 32952730—=3N−6B−14N−13N−18B+?NFF1.519.519.52.5015060.0
23Hope, Simon0AUSFFF=14B−3N+13B−12NF1.516.016.05.257680.0
24FIDE 32969110—−5B−15N−18B−19NF−14B−?N−?B0.017.017.00.007280.0

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets