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By Hywel Griffiths · 29-Jun-2025

This year's AOJ is taking place in Morriston RFC on the 29th of June, just one week to go! Originally a 30 minutes rapidplay, players now have 20 minutes each with a 5 second increment. For many years it was closed to the West Wales Chess League but in 2018 it become an open event with FM Friedermann Brock topping the block! with FM Grzegorz Toczek being the top-rated last year, Ian Jones of Morriston managed to claim the trophy. He's attending this year to fight for it once more! With a wide spread in standard, anyone can play and be part of something special.

2045 Moss McCarthy, Morriston

2041 Bill Hewitt, White Knights

2016 Alan Young, White Knights

2013 Sam Jukes, Cardiff

1939 Ian Jones, Morriston

1991 Adam Woodruff, Morriston

1904 Vismith Prabhu, White Knights

1902 Hywel Griffiths ,Castell Nedd

1883 Peter Bevan, Morriston

1812 Jordan Heatman, Castell Nedd

1803 David Belochkin, North Cardiff

1803 Donovan Sipho, Noahs Yard

1779 Andrew Smith, Morriston

1757 Les Philpin, Morriston

1692 Neil Stuart, Morriston

1670 Farouq Nasir, Morriston

1650 Kristan Enoch, Cardiff

1650 Lucas Zheng, North Cardiff

1600 Ian Hayes, Carmarthen

1560 Stuart Enoch, Cardiff

1557 Tamur Ramzan

1461 Andrew Powell, Castell Nedd

1456 James Choung, North Cardiff

1456 Paul Bevan, Morriston

1393 Jack Mason, Morriston

1390 Advik Ram, Castell Nedd

1385 Thomas Macdonald-Wright, Morriston

1368 Constantine Popov, North Cardiff

1316 Jakob Josh-Wright, Castell Nedd

1315 Felix Deng, North Cardiff

1310 John Giannini, Morriston

1310 Clara Deng, North Cardiff

UG Arush Ram, Castell Nedd

UG Yimo Liu