The 49th BWCI Guernsey International Chess Festival | 19 - 25 October 2025
Blitz Tournament The organising committee for the 47th BWCI Guernsey International Chess Festival is pleased to announce that there will be a Blitz Tournament held at St. James on Saturday 14th October starting at 19:00. 1st PRIZE: £75.00, 2nd PRIZE: £50.00, 3rd PRIZE: £25:00Additional Chessable prizes in addition to the cash prizes. TIME CONTROL: 3…
IM Brandon Clarke The organising committee for the 47th BWCI Guernsey International Chess Festival is sorry to announce that English IM Brandon Clarke will be not be participating in this year’s event. Due to a scheduling conflict Brandon has to withdraw from the tournament.
IM Harry Grieve The organising committee for the 47th BWCI Guernsey International Chess Festival is pleased to announce that English IM Harry Grieve will be participating in this year’s event. Harry became an IM In 2022 and has 2 GM norms (in British Championship 2022 and 4NCL 2022-23). He was UK Chess Challenge Champion 2017,…
GM Keith Arkell The organising committee for the 47th BWCI Guernsey International Chess Festival is pleased to announce that English GM Keith Arkell will be participating in this year’s event. Keith has been winning 10 or more tournaments a year for 45 years. Best recent results include jointly winning Vienna Open with 7.5/9, ahead of…
GM Daniel Gormally The organising committee for the 47th BWCI Guernsey International Chess Festival is pleased to announce that English GM Daniel Gormally will be participating in this year’s event. In November 2006 Daniel was joint winner of the British Rapidplay Chess Championship. In 2015 he tied for the second place with David Howell and Nicholas…
IM Brandon Clarke The organising committee for the 47th BWCI Guernsey International Chess Festival is pleased to announce that English IM Brandon Clarke will be participating in this year’s event. Brandon is a former British Junior Champion, Australian Blitz Champion and New Zealand Champion His career highlights include winning the UK Chess Challenge, playing in…
Guernsey International Chess Festival – Prize Winners 2022 We are very happy to announce the winners in the following categories were: Open 1st GM Boris Chatalbashev 2nd GM Mark Hebden 3rd Gunnar Johnsen, John Wager & Harry Zheng Ladies Prize IM Harriet Hunt & WGM Sheila…
Seventh Round Results With the seventh round of the 46th Guernsey International Chess Festival completed, there is just one round left! The seventh round results are available here. The final standings after the seven rounds of the 46th Guernsey International Chess Festival are available here. We would like to thank our partners & supporters for helping to…
Seventh Round Pairings With the sixth round of the 46th Guernsey International Chess Festival completed, there is just one round left! The sixth round results are available here. Seventh round pairings for the 46th Guernsey International Chess Festival are available here. We would like to thank our partners & supporters for helping to make this happen.
Sixth Round Pairings With the fifth round of the 46th Guernsey International Chess Festival completed, we have now passed the halfway point in the tournament. The fifth round results are available here. Sixth round pairings for the 46th Guernsey International Chess Festival are available here. We would like to thank our partners & supporters for helping to…