Bunbury Open History – Bunbury Chess Club

2026 Bunbury Open Writeup

The 3rd annual Bunbury Open was the biggest ever, attracting 30 players from across WA. 11 Bunbury Locals, 14 from Perth and 5 from Country WA ranging all the way down to Denmark. Congratulations to the 2026 Bunbury Open Champion Bradley Lucas! Winning with a perfect 6/6 score. The first perfect score in Bunbury Open history.

Also well done to the runner up Josh Davoll with a well fought 5/6.

Josh vs Bradley’s game in the penultimate round was very interesting; Bradley defended well from a bad position and came out the victor, ultimately clinching the tournament. The decisive moment was 34. e8=Q?? where whites advantage was lost and it went back to equal. See the full game below:

Bunbury Open 2026 Winners Study @ lichess.org

Young 13 year old Uudamkhishig Togtmol rated 1074 scored some big upsets defeating Michael Molenaar rated 1785 and another 1650 player on his way to 4/6 and tied 5th overall. Well done Uudam!

Clint Stewart seeded 8th had a great tournament to finish 3rd overall and winning the best under 1800 prize.

Stephen Mazza was Bunbury’s best player with 4/6 and had a nice win over former 3x state champion David Ellis.

The players were well fed with Bunbury locals bringing in cake, cheese, sausage, biscuits and fresh fruit from the Bunbury Farmers Market. Many players commented it was one of the best chess venues they’ve been to, and the tournament was well run, we hope the word gets out further and we have a bigger turnout next May.

The list of prize winners is provided below.

Prize Winners

1st Place Open Category: Bradley Lucas (6.0/6)

2nd Place Open Category:Josh Davoll (5.0/6)

3rd Place Open Category & Winner Under 1800 Category: Clint Stewart & Simon Voggenreiter (4.5/6)

Under 1800 – Runner Up: Stephen Mazza (4.0/6)

Under 1500 – Winner & Runner Up: Uudamkhishig Togtmol & Gavin Mercer (4.0/6)

Under 1200 – Winner: Christian Newbold (3.0/6)

Under 1200 – Runner up: Charlie Williams, Allan Miller & Ashton Hurst (2.0/6)

Best Junior: Florentina Rithauddin (3.0/6)

Bonus prize – Best Win: Uudamkhishig Togtmol (719 rating difference win)

Bunbury Open 2025 Writeup

The Bunbury Open was a huge success! We had 22 players from Perth and the Southwest compete over two days of classical chess.

Congratulations to our new Bunbury Open Champion Alice O’Gorman with an undefeated 5.5/6! Simply too good!

Also well done to Michael Gunawan taking 2nd place in his first tournament with 4.5/6!

It was also an honour to have 3x WA State champion David Ellis come down and play!

Aidan Malik won the David vs Goliath prize in round 1 overcoming a 541 rating difference!

Please see the full list of winners below.

PGN’s on Lichess

Hope to see you all again and many new faces next year in May

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Bunbury Open 2024 Writeup

The inaugural Bunbury Open was a huge success, thank you to everyone who participated.

We had 19 entrants on the day at the awesome venue at Manea Senior College. It was a great weekend with a bunch of friendly people from across WA, including Perth, Margaret River and even Denmark.

Congratulations to the winner Tim Hare, he is our Bunbury Open Champion! He took home $500 and gets his name on the Bunbury Open Trophy!

Open Division

1st place: Tim Hare with 5.5/6

2nd place: FM Boyd Mccamon with 4.5/6

3rd place: Michael Molenaar & Dennis Holland with 4.0/6

Best Under 1700

1st place: Gary Donaldson with 4.0/6

2nd place: Sid Bhosale with 4.0/6

3rd place: Varun Mukhedkar with 3.0/6

Best under 1350

1st place: Graeme Cotterill with 4.0/6

2nd place: Stephen Mazza with 3.5/6