Qualifiers for BGA Championship 2026 - updated from ratings on 25/08/2025
The following list identifies UK players who have met the British Championship rating criteria (GoR>=1900) during the current qualifying year. Please see the British Championship page for full details of other requirements including British residency and tournament attendance, which must be met in order to qualify.
The qualifiers table lists players in order of qualification date, and shows your rating details on the date you first qualified. If the list does not show, please ensure your URL has scheme http: and not https:
NAME
GRADE
STRENGTH
QUALIFIED
RATING
NTOUR
CLUB
Oh, Chi-Min 8d 3.0p 2025/07/26 2761 44 Oxford University
Yang, Yaoling 7d 1.9p 2025/06/14 2728 36 Bristol
Wan, Quan 7d 1.1p 2025/06/07 2703 5 Manchester
Woo, Ho_Yeung 6d 6.2d 2025/07/26 2615 26 Nottingham
Xing, Yuhang 6d 6.0d 2025/08/09 2603 8 Glasgow
Yuan, Chenhe 5d 5.3d 2025/06/28 2528 6 No Club
Xiao, Qinghao 5d 5.0d 2025/06/07 2499 2 Cardiff
Li, Mingda 5d 5.0d 2025/06/28 2497 3 Cardiff
Cui, Xuanqi 5d 4.9d 2025/06/07 2493 3 No Club
Cheung, Tik_Wai 5d 4.7d 2025/08/09 2473 20 No Club
Kay, Andrew 5d 4.5d 2025/07/26 2451 103 Swansea
Xue, Peikai 4d 4.4d 2025/08/09 2436 74 UCL
Cobbold, Scott 4d 4.1d 2025/07/26 2414 98 Cambridge Uni
Poltronieri, Bruno 4d 4.1d 2025/05/03 2412 65 Cambridge
Game, Jake 4d 4.1d 2025/06/28 2410 10 Swindon
Li, Anson_Chung_Tin 4d 3.9d 2025/07/26 2394 6 Edinburgh
Zhang, Yangran 3d 3.3d 2025/08/09 2327 43 Manchester
Shi, Zhan 3d 3.2d 2025/08/09 2323 24 Manchester
Zhang, Ryan 3d 3.2d 2025/05/03 2323 79 London City
Kwok, Alvina 3d 3.1d 2025/07/29 2308 40 No Club
Wu, Zhuolin 3d 2.9d 2025/05/24 2294 1 No Club
Wen, George 2d 2.5d 2025/07/26 2251 14 No Club
Zhao, Yichun 2d 2.3d 2025/08/09 2226 7 Manchester
Wall, Alistair 2d 2.0d 2025/06/28 2204 356 No Club
Bithell, Sam 2d 2.0d 2025/06/07 2201 34 Durham
Ng, Kwun_Yin 2d 2.0d 2025/08/09 2198 13 No Club
Wei, Lantian 2d 2.0d 2025/06/28 2195 1 Warwick University
Hunt, Tim 2d 1.9d 2025/05/03 2194 177 Milton Keynes
Peng, Haoran 1d 1.6d 2025/08/09 2159 8 Lancaster
Hunter, Richard 2d 1.6d 2025/06/28 2158 74 Bristol
Wu, Xinyuan 1d 1.4d 2025/07/20 2142 5 No Club
Swan, Andrew 1d 1.2d 2025/07/05 2118 12 CODE Ljub
Smith, Edmund 1d 1.1d 2025/07/26 2114 124 Warwick University
Scarff, Christian 1d 1.0d 2025/05/03 2100 146 Swindon
Carter, Dylan 1d 1.0d 2025/06/28 2096 61 Cardiff
Coulthard, Tom 1d 0.9d 2025/08/09 2093 28 Newcastle
Guan, Ai 1d 0.7d 2025/08/09 2073 93 Birmingham
Smith, Paul 1d 0.7d 2025/08/09 2071 106 Cambridge
Terry, Alex 1d 0.7d 2025/05/03 2070 16 Bristol
Zhao, Jin 1d 0.7d 2025/08/09 2066 7 Manchester
Wheeldon, Richard 1d 0.7d 2025/07/26 2065 106 London Go Centre
Eurenius, Bjorn 1k 0.7d 2025/06/28 2065 43 Manchester
Reid, Matthew 1k 0.5d 2025/05/30 2053 129 Cambridge
Leung, Kam_Chuen 1k 0.5d 2025/07/26 2052 13 London Go Centre
Roberts, Brook 1k 0.7k 2025/07/26 2035 25 London City
Zhou, George 1d 0.8k 2025/07/26 2024 24 Sheffield
Roads, Francis 1k 1.0k 2025/07/20 2000 314 London Go Centre
Manning, Toby 1k 1.0k 2025/08/09 1997 362 Leicester
Ng, Chun_Yin 1k 1.1k 2025/05/24 1995 11 No Club
Yu, Shiyi 1k 1.1k 2025/08/09 1989 6 Manchester
Kudla, Grzegorz 1k 1.3k 2025/06/07 1968 36 Edinburgh
Cockburn, Mike 1k 1.5k 2025/07/26 1954 91 St Albans
Moulds, Richard 2k 1.6k 2025/08/09 1944 39 Manchester
Hill, John 2k 1.6k 2025/05/24 1943 1 Brighton
Mitcham-Harding, Michael 2k 1.9k 2025/07/24 1913 18 York
Ng, Sydney 2k 2.0k 2025/08/09 1901 2 Manchester
Qualifiers for 2026: 56
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