Sydney Academy of Chess
Suite 2, Level 2, 1-17 Elsie St, Burwood
$120 per player
($140 if paid after 15th October 2025)
Each round begins at 7:30pm (one game per week on Fridays).
Dates are: 17 October, 24 October, 31 October, 7 November, 14 November, 21 November, 28 November.
The tournament is a 7-round ‘Swiss’ competition. This means that all players play 7 games and no-one is ‘knocked out’ of the tournament. The time limit is 90 minutes per player per game with a 30 second increment per move from the start.
Players with a FIDE Standard rating under 2200 are eligible to enter. Unrated players are also welcome to join.
This tournament will be FIDE and ACF rated.
All players must record all moves on a scoresheet.
1st Place: $1000
2nd Place: $600
3rd Place: $400
4th Place: $300
5th Place: $200
U/2000 FIDE: Book Prize
U/1800 FIDE: Book Prize
Best Junior: Book Prize
To Enter:
Please pay online with your credit card or debit card at www.sydneyacademyofchess.com.au/payment
by entering the following code: NKJGJNGCIN and filling in the electronic form with the player's details.
Please note: to enter this tournament, you must be an Australian Citizen, or a permanent resident, or have a FIDE ID.
Also, players over the age of 18 need to join NSWCA: https://www.nswca.org.au/join.php and can choose the "Registered Player" option when joining.
Current entries (last updated 17th October 2025)
| Title | First name | Last name | ACF | FIDE | |
| 1 | John-Stuart | Plant | 1986 | 2059 | |
| 2 | Ronald | Nonles | 2073 | 2024 | |
| 3 | CM | Milan | Lama | 2004 | 2018 |
| 4 | Eric | Liu | 1961 | 2005 | |
| 5 | Ted | Power | 1901 | 1988 | |
| 6 | Arthur | Huynh | 1971 | 1986 | |
| 7 | Jeremy | Plunkett | 1996 | 1966 | |
| 8 | WFM | Alaina | Vincent | 1936 | 1957 |
| 9 | CM | Jean | Rusakov | 1923 | 1951 |
| 10 | Alborz | Baghipouraliabadi | 2011 | 1938 | |
| 11 | Henry | Cronin | 1955 | 1933 | |
| 12 | Anand | Munkhbat | 1851 | 1911 | |
| 13 | Ridley | Scott | 1924 | 1862 | |
| 14 | Leo | Kuncoro | 1622 | 1857 | |
| 15 | Ashvini | Pavalachandran | 1835 | 1851 | |
| 16 | Edwin-Daniel | Oezdemir | 1775 | 1819 | |
| 17 | Marcus (Shing Hei) | Li | 1752 | 1803 | |
| 18 | Aidan | Malcolm | 1679 | 1767 | |
| 19 | David | Esposito | 1595 | 1740 | |
| 20 | Nikola | Vujasin | 1583 | 1729 | |
| 21 | Will | Wenderoth | 1571 | 1727 | |
| 22 | Avinav | Sivaraj | 1472 | 1727 | |
| 23 | Jose | Escribano | 1634 | 1718 | |
| 24 | Mason | Tay | 1489 | 1711 | |
| 25 | Kamal | Jain | 1485 | 1710 | |
| 26 | Angela | He | 1499 | 1672 | |
| 27 | Alexi | Pavlidis | 1354 | 1631 | |
| 28 | James | Cox | 1491 | 1627 | |
| 29 | Akito | Koike | UNR | 1622 | |
| 30 | Eashan | Mavaram | UNR | 1620 | |
| 31 | Shaarav | Sudhakar | UNR | 1598 | |
| 32 | Harvey | Kuncoro | 1221 | 1552 | |
| 33 | Ryan | Gu | 1287 | 1537 | |
| 34 | Leo | Xie | 1158 | 1536 | |
| 35 | Tom | England | 1177 | 1491 | |
| 36 | Palash | Rajpura | 537 | 1443 | |
| 37 | Noah | Scalet | 1262 | UNR | |
| 38 | Emmanuel | Lakshman | 776 | UNR | |
| 39 | Salahadeen | Bowens | 751 | UNR | |
| 40 | Tarun | Balasubramanyam | 485 | UNR | |
| 41 | Ekansh | Arora | UNR | UNR | |
| 42 | Avik | Bhatnagar | UNR | UNR | |
| 43 | Sahasraamshu | Dasari | UNR | UNR | |
| 44 | Bibek | Gurung | UNR | UNR | |
| 45 | Ibrahim | Ha | UNR | UNR | |
| 46 | Yixi | Jin | UNR | UNR | |
| 47 | Marcus | Leung | UNR | UNR | |
| 48 | Sean | O'halloran | UNR | UNR | |
| 49 | Austin | Pu | UNR | UNR | |
| 50 | Mason | Pu | UNR | UNR | |
| 51 | Amisha | Steggles | UNR | UNR | |
| 52 | Oscar | Steggles | UNR | UNR | |
| 53 | Evan | Teh | UNR | UNR | |
| 54 | Rol Galileo | Yang | UNR | UNR |
