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lichess.org Arena tournament results
The arena tournaments use a playing session of 2 hours and games with a 10 minutes plus 5 seconds increment from move 1 time control. In the Arena, a win counts for 2 points and a draw for 1. Players may choose to 'Berserk' offering the odds of a shorter time, but gaining three points for a win
In the table below, dates are links to full results on the lichess website. The lichess site gives names of silver and bronze medal winners, scores of all players, and links to replayable games.
| Date | Gold medal | Perf | Game score |
Arena Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Jan | Perry Walker | 2409 | 4/4 | 8 |
| In the first tournament of 2021, Perry Walker was first on tie break from David Hancock (silver) and Steve Shaw (bronze). See full results. | ||||
| 28 Dec | Perry Walker | 2099 | 6/7 | 13 |
| Perry Walker won the last event of the year well ahead of rivals David Hancock (silver) and Kieran Lappin (bronze). See full results. | ||||
| 21 Dec | Perry Walker | 2202 | 6/6 | 12 |
| Perry Walker scored a perfect 6 wins from 6 games to take gold. Kieran Lappin won silver and Michael Chester bronze. See full results. | ||||
| 14 Dec | Dillan Duke | 2005 | 3/5 | 7 |
| Dillan Duke won gold, but David Hancock (silver) gave him a good run for his money and Michael Chester (bronze) had his first podium. Kieran had a computer malfunction and was down the order. See full results. | ||||
| 7 Dec | Dillan Duke | 2119 | 5/6 | 14 |
| 7 Dec. Dillan Duke won gold, well ahead of David Hancock (silver) and Brian Turner (bronze). See full results. | ||||
| 30 Nov | Dillan Duke | 1987 | 6/6 | 12 |
| 30 Nov. Dillan Duke went Berserk and won gold. Perry Walker was second on tie-break from David Hancock (bronze). See full results. | ||||
| 23 Nov | Dillan Duke | 1986 | 4½/7 | 13 |
| Dillan Duke was well ahead for gold having won Berserk games. He was followed by Perry Walker (silver) and Kieran lappin (bronze). See full results. | ||||
| 16 Nov | Perry Walker | 2336 | 4/4 | 8 |
| Perry Walker was first with a high performance rating beating Kieran Lappin (silver) on tie-break and David Hancock (bronze). See full results. | ||||
| 9 Nov | Dillan Duke | 1916 | 4/6 | 12 |
| Dillan Duke Berserked his way to the top with Brian Turner on silver and Perry Walker on bronze. See full results. | ||||
| 2 Nov | Geoff Marchant | 2437 | 5/5 | 10 |
| New contender Geoff March won the gold medal over first seed GM Bogdan Lalic. with Promising junior Dillan Duke in Bronze position. Full results and game scores. | ||||
| 26 Oct | Nick Hanne | 2135 | 3/4 | 6 |
| Another new winner on tie-break. Nick Hanne moved up to gold position on tie-break from Dillan Duke (Silver) and Stephen O’Dell (bronze). Full results and game scores. | ||||
| 19 Oct | Perry Walker | 2373 | 4/4 | 8 |
| The tournament had a new winner this week: Perry Walker ahead of Dave Hancock (Silver) and Nick Hanne (bronze). Full results and game scores. | ||||
| 12 Oct | Joe Watson | 2183 | 6/7 | 12 |
| Joe Watson was again winner. Stephen O’Dell won silver and John Preece bronze positions. Full results and game scores. | ||||
| 5 Oct | Joe Watson | 2303 | 4/4 | 8 |
| Joe Watson won his third arena tournament running. Dillan Duke was second and Perry Walker third..Joe won on tie-break from Dillan Duke (silver) because Dillan had taken an extra game to achive four game points. Full results and game scores | ||||
| 28 Sep | Joe Watson | 2351 | 5/5 | 10 |
| Joe watson won gold for the third time ahead of Perry Walker (silver) and Dillan Duke (bronze). Full results. | ||||
| 21 Sep | Joe Watson | 2120 | 4/5 | 8 |
| Joe Watson celebrated his second tournament win in a row. His fourth game featured a rare mate with a pawn in the middle game after a queen sac. Stephen O’Dell shared the same number of game points, but was placed second because he took 7 games to get there against Joe’s 5. Perry Walker was third on 7 points. Full results and game scores. | ||||
| 14 Sep | Joe Watson | 2342 | 5/5 | 16 |
| The Online rapidplay tournament was won by Joe Watson (Hereford) with extra arena points for his winning streaks. Second was Gareth Allday and third Dave Hancock. Full results and game scores | ||||
| 7 Sep | Gareth Allday | 2294 | 5/5 | 10 |
| This was the first tournament using the slightly faster time control of 10 minutes plus 5 seconds. Gareth Allday took first place, winning all five games. Second was Stephen O’Dell and third Joe Watson. Full results and game scores. | ||||
| 31 Aug | Joe Watson | 2334 | 5/5 | 10 |
| First placed was Joe Watson (Hereford), second Dillan Duke playing from his holiday haunt. Full results and game scores. | ||||
| 24 Aug | Dillan Duke | 2234 | 3/3 | 8 |
| Dillon Duke was first on tie break followed by Joe Watson and third Nick Hanne. Full results and game scores. | ||||
| 17 Aug | Josh Clarke | 2128 | 4½/5 | 14 |
| The vegetable was first!! 'TonedCabbage', Josh Clarke, won with 8 points because he had two winning streaks. He was followed by 'rabbit' (silver) and Joe Watson (bronze). See full results and game scores. | ||||
| 10 Aug | Chris Haggett | 2003 | 4/5 | 12 |
| Chris Haggett was first with extra arena points for winning streaks followed by the Josh Clarke, second and Joe Watson third. See full results and game scores. | ||||
| 3 Aug | Joe Watson | 2225 | 6/6 | 20 |
| Joe Watson was first by a country mile receiving extra arena points for winning streaks, Dillan Duke second and Perry Walker third. See full results and game scores. | ||||
| 27 Jul | Perry Walker | 2003 | 4/5 | 8 |
| Perry Walker was first, Dillan Duke second and Kieran Lappin third. See full results and game scores. | ||||
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