Hull and East Riding Chess Association (HERCA), in conjunction with Hull’s Freedom Festival Arts Trust, and as part of the “Remembering Amos: HERCA’s Play Chess Festival 2025” (Amos being Amos Burn), is holding a

GRANDMASTER SHOWDOWN

which is

a Grandmaster Simultaneous Exhibition given by

2023 and 2024 British Blitz Chess Champion

ELDAR GASANOV

on SATURDAY, 30th AUGUST 2025, in HULL MINSTER

Trinity Square, S Church Side, Hull HU1 1RR.

The simultaneous exhibition will be played between 13.00 and 17.00.

Places are limited to 30.

Participation is by pre-booking only which can be made online at

https://congress.org.uk/congress/627/home.

The cost is £20 (£10 for juniors).

There will be a prize for the first person to win,

or if no-one wins, the first to draw,

or if no-one draws then the last to finish.

Spectators are very welcome – entry free.

There will be chess sets and HERCA volunteers in Trinity Square

all day as part of the Freedom Festival programme.

A flyer for the event can be seen here - flyer - but note that the link given there to the online booking webpage fails. You need to remove the full stop which has erroneously been appended to the web address in the flyer.