The British Rapidplay Chess Championships was a rapid play

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held in the UK annually since 1986 (with the exception of 1993)until. Dec 20th 2022.It was under the auspices of the

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. but never was funded underwritten nor sponsored by the ECF . The UK's premier weekend rapidplay congress included ''The British Rapidplay Championship'' which was open to all players, and several grading restricted and junior tournaments. The tournament took place over two days and consisted of 11 rounds of chess . There were Open, Major, Intermediate, Minor and Junior categories. The event has been held in Leeds, Bradford and Halifax over the years. * The Open winner in 2010 was Grandmaster (GM) David Howell, scoring 10½/11. * The 25th anniversary event took place at Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley, Leeds on 19 and 20 November 2011. The Open winner was GM Gawain Jones scoring 10½/11 points. * The 2012 event took place again at the L.M.U. on 24 and 25 November. The winner was

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IM with 9/11. * The 2013 event was played on 23 and 24 November at Leeds Metropolitan University, Headingley and was won by GM Mark Hebden with 9.5/11. * The 2014 event took place on 1 and 2 November and saw Jonathan Hawkins G.M. win with 10.5/11. Leeds Beckett University was the venue and saw a good turnout in all the main events. The event saw its 20th consecutive year under the British Rapidplay Chess Organization - Secretary B.Kitson, Treasurer S.Burton, Website S.Forbes, Honorary President M.Dow. * The 2015 event took place at

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on 31 October and 1 November. The Joint Winners were G.M. Mark Hebden and I.M. Ameet Ghasi . * The 2016 event took place on 12 and 13 November 2016 at Temple Moor High School,Leeds The Joint Winners of the thirtieth anniversary event were I.M. Lorin D'Costa and I.M. Richard A Bates on 9/11 . * The 2017 event took place on 18 and 19 November at The Craiglands Hotel, Ilkley . The winner of The Open was the Spanish G.M. Daniel Alsina Leal with 8/10.... * The 2018 event took place on 24 and 25 November at The Craiglands, Ilkley The winner was I.M.Gediminas Sarakauskas with 9.5/11 * The 2019 event took place in Pudsey Civic Hall on 23 and 24 November 2019 .The Joint Winners on 8.5/11 were Stephen J Gordon GM and David J Egglestone I.M. * The 2020/21 event has been moved to Nov 26th-Nov 27th 2022 due to Covid19 and was due to take place at..Trinity University Horsforth. It was however postponed in 2022 due to illness and ongoing COVID possibilities.The website below is no longer being maintained as the ECF have taken back the auspices and have demanded that the title British Rapidplay is no longer used ..The event is now under the ECF 4NCL BICC whose CEO is Mike Truran .It is now underwritten by the ECF.The organizers have met and have retitled the event The Shine UK Open Chess Rapidplay.The new event is open to all UK players.and should take place on Sunday 26th November 2023...It will be initially be a one day six round event ..the old event website below is defunct.It provides historical data still.
The new website is currently being formulated

British Rapidplay Chess Champions

* 1986

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* 1987 Nigel Davies * 1988

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and

John Nunn John Denis Martin Nunn (born 25 April 1955) is an English chess grandmaster, a three-time world champion in chess problem solving, a chess writer and publisher, and a mathematician. He is one of England's strongest chess players and was former ...

* 1989

* 1990

Mark Hebden Mark Lesland Hebden (born 15 February 1958 in Leicester) is an English chess player who holds the title Grandmaster. Hebden is known for chess openings such as the Grand Prix Attack, the Barry Attack, and the 150 Attack. Hebden was Briti ...

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and Alexander Wojtkiewicz * 1991

Lev Polugaevsky Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky ( rus, Лев Абрамович Полугаевский, p=pəlʊɡɐˈjefskʲɪj; 20 November 1934 – 30 August 1995) was a Soviet chess player. He was awarded the title of International Grandmaster by FIDE i ...

and

* 1992

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* 1993 ''No Contest'' * 1994

* 1995 Michael Adams * 1996 Michael Adams * 1997

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* 1998

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* 1999 Michael Adams * 2000 Aaron Summerscale and

Ameet Ghasi Ameet K. Ghasi (born 1987) is an English chess player who received the FIDE title of International Master (IM) in September 2012. In 2000, at the age of 13, Ghasi shared the British Rapidplay Chess Championship title with Aaron Summerscale b ...

* 2001

* 2002 Peter Wells * 2003 Peter Wells * 2004

Nicholas Pert Nicholas Pert (born 22 January 1981) is an English chess grandmaster. Pert was the World Under-18 Chess Champion in 1998 and British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 2004. He has represented England at the highest level, including the 37th Chess ...

* 2005

* 2006

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and

Richard Palliser Richard David Palliser (born 18 September 1981) is an English chess player and chess writer who holds the title International Master. Palliser was joint British Rapidplay Chess Champion in 2006. He writes regularly for Everyman Chess who als ...

* 2007 Peter Wells * 2008 David Howell * 2009 David Howell and

* 2010 David Howell * 2011

Gawain Jones Gawain Christopher Bernard Jones (born 11 December 1987) is an English chess player. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2007. He won the British Chess Championship in 2012 and 2017. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2013, 20 ...

* 2012

* 2013

* 2014

* 2015

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* 2016 Lorin D'Costa and Richard A Bates * 2017 Daniel Alsina Leal * 2018 Gediminas Sarakauskas * 2019 Stephen J. Gordon and David J Eggleston * 2020 No event due to Covid19 * 2021 No event due to Covid19 * 2022 No event due to Covid19 and Illness.. * 2023 Event taken over by ECF..

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