In each of the Open and Challengers Swiss sections there were two players shown as “not paired” and given a nil result, though half-point byes were eventually added in, long after the end of the round. In the Major section, 8 out of the 16 entrants were shown as unpaired with zero result. Much later six of the 8 had a half-point bye similarly added, leaving 14 players which is not comfortable for a 9-round Swiss.

Regarding the Round Robin norm-qualifying event, when the start time was but a minute away, there were 7 viewers declared (but not named) on Lichess. Time ticked by, and the games never appeared. The games results, with one missing, shown on Chess-results.com were

		Rd. 1			20/08/2025
2361	FM	Kenneth Hobson	0-1	FM	Supratit Banerjee	2242
2434	IM	Maciej Czopor	1-0	CM	Chopra Manmay	2188
2309	FM	Stanley Badacsonyi	0-1	IM	Peter G Large	2291
2323	FM	Jude Shearsby	v		Ieysaa Bin‑Suhayl	2217
2394	IM	Aaravamudhan Balaji	½‑½	FM	Ioan Rees	2280

It seems Koby Kalavannan, who was due to play Ieysaa Bin‑Suhayl, dropped out, and was belatedly replaced by Jude Shearsby, which meant their game had to be postponed, presumably to Sunday afternoon.

Open round-1 results were

		Rd. 1			20/08/2025
2464	IM	Guy Levin	½-½		Ross Blackford	2042
2038		Andrew Lewis	0-1	GM	Daniel W Gormally	2413
2359	FM	Oliver Stork	1-0		Maksym Larchikov	2037
2020		David Armbruster	0-1	GM	Mark L Hebden	2347
2252		Fahim Nasiri	½-½		Michael Green	2009
1998		Devesh Sharma	0-1	CM	Theo Khoury	2239
2238	FM	Craig S M Thomson	1-0		Malcolm J Armstrong	1987
1962		Fedir Dyshliuk	0-1	CM	Jacob D Yoon	2203
2131	FM	Ryan Harper	1-0		Chris Izod	1944
1934		Sven Dr. Spickermann	0-1		Nicholas Kowalski Rubiales	2125
2122	CM	Billy Fellowes	0d1		Joe Kilshaw	1918
1896		Steven B Booth	0-1	NM	M R Sooraj	2119
2118		Tim Elgar	1-0		Leonardo Gupta	1885
1761		Liam Bellwood	½-½		Martin P Burrows	2076
2070	WFM	Zoe Varney	½‑½		Husain Nakara	1713
1669		Stellio Jerome	0-1	FM	Frankie Badacsonyi	2193
1984		Alexandros N Ethelontis	½		bye
1956		Nathan Ekanem	½		bye

Challengers round-1 results were

	Rd. 1		20/08/2025
1990	Jonathan McKay	1-0	Richard Porter	1831
1822	Alice Lampard	0-1	Oluwafemi Fafiola	1950
1911	John Trevelyan	1-0	Paul May	1815
1813	David Egan	1-0	Paul Brencher	1910
1886	Dirk Sander	0-1	Eve Clark	1809
1799	Jeremy Revell	0-1	Peter K Tart	1882
1876	Colin A Costello	1-0	Stephen Rodgers	1757
1754	Michael Allen	0-1	Nick Webb	1875
1869	Mark Waterfield	0-1	Alan Tunnacliffe	1740
1736	Dominic Leigh	½‑½	Kevin J Wilson	1868
1862	Luke Owen	1-0	Ved Sudeep Boganadham	1731
1722	Richard J Harris	0-1	Tino Sander	1861
1853	Ian B Chester	1-0	Charlie Hazlerigg	1699
1663	Leo Kowalski Rubiales	1d0	Sijo Jose VK	1850
1834	Robert Kane	1-0	Adam Walkowiak	1657
1566	Steve Robinson	0-1	Tony J Slinger	1833
1765	John Aanuoluwapo Awesome	½	bye
1718	Sief Al Din Holi	½	bye

Major round-1 results were

	Rd. 1		20/08/2025
1522	James Phillips	½-½	Stephen C Pride	1597
0	Kaiqiao Chen	0-1	Otto Nemeth	1545
1618	Yechu Chen	1-0	Mohammed Rohman	1574
0	Joey Pramana	1-0	Arthur Ryder	1409
1666	Owen R Robson	½	bye
1615	Adam Smith	½	bye
1601	Daniel Atcheson	½	bye
1585	Norman G Andrews	½	bye
1539	Jon Hunt	½	bye
1483	Anant Handa	½	bye
1474	Adam Walkowiak	0	not paired
1248	Joseph Thomas Machin	0	not paired