Past Winners - St Albans Congress
The winners of the Congress in each year since 1998 are shown below.
*The Open was introduced in 2001, replacing the Premier which had been grade restricted.
| Year | Open* | Challengers | Major | Intermediate | Minor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Rajat Makkar | Jonathan Rubeck | Tim Jones | Jacob Liu | Joel Tofield-Brown |
| 2022 | Yichen Han | Francis W Sagyaman, Nigel RE Alldritt | Andrew D Hartland | Alan R Prince, Johnathan Jones | Henry Neenan |
| 2021 | Congress Not Held | ||||
| 2020 | Congress Not Held | ||||
| 2019 | John Merriman | Joshua Pink | Andrew Brocklehurst | David Turner | Anthony Dunford |
| 2018 | IM Richard Bates | Paul Colburn, Dave Cordner, Finlo Rohrer, Jeff Tomy | Tobias Baumann | David Short | Michael Pope |
| 2017 | IM Richard Tozer | Paul Kelly | Jon Barnes | Aaravamudhan Balaji | Ian Emerik Leko |
| 2016 | IM Richard Bates | Philip Bonafont | Vladimir Bovtramovics | Stephen Chadaway | Nadia Jaufarally |
| 2015 | GM Alexander Cherniaev | Paul Kelly | John Cawston,William Phillips,Leo Sanitt | Rob Parsons | Marek Piedel |
| 2014 | IM Richard Bates | Helge Hjort, Peter Lane, Shane McCabe | Michael Botteley | Samir Vora | Douglas Forbes,Sanjay Kumar |
| 2013 | GM Alexander Cherniaev | Peter Ackley, Joseph Levene | Russell Goodfellow | Jackson Wen, William Lindsay | David Summerland, Michael Whitworth, Richard Dulley |
| 2012 | IM Richard Tozer | Richard Bryant | Richard Wombwell | Peter Nickals | Lee Bullock |
| Paul Georghiou | Joseph Levene | Charlie Nettleton | Douglas Bramley | ||
| Charles Marsh | Steve Crockett | ||||
| 2011 | IM Augustin Madan | Tim Rogers | Joseph Levene | Yasmin Giles | Cosima Keen |
| GM Alexander Cherniaev | Rajan Ganger | Akito Oyama | John Kelly | ||
| 2010 | Felix Ynojosa | James Foster | Russell Goodfellow | Ken Groce | Peter Baker |
| 2009 | Odion Aikhoje | Julian Shepley | Jimmy Jiang | Jamie Adcock | Andrew Marsh |
| GM Alexander Cherniaev | |||||
| 2008 | Odion Aikhoje | Martin Cutmore | Anthony Kelly | John Bradley | Richard Brammer |
| Tarun Malhotra | |||||
| 2007 | Lorin D'Costa | Francis Chin | Nigel Holroyd | Alan Merry | Greg Breed |
| Caius Turner | |||||
| 2006 | IM Andrew Greet | Donny Muter | Chino Atako | Barry Sandercock | Terry Barnell |
| Dennis Wright | Patrick Fitzgerald | ||||
| 2005 | GM Petr Kiriakov | Terry Turner | Dean Hartley | David Brady | Barrie Saunders |
| Gary Smith | |||||
| Nicholas White | |||||
| 2004 | Lawrence Trent | Andrew Horton-Kitchlew | Paul Carlucci | Adrian Lawrence | Charles Davie |
| 2003 | IM Alexander Cherniaev | Anthony Fulton | Jean-Baptiste Jugand | Robert Clegg | Similan Anandajeyarajah |
| Jinwoo Song | Jia Shen Lee | ||||
| David Smith | Alan Trent | ||||
| John Wright | David Cairncross | ||||
| 2002 | Paul Georghiou | Terry Bean | Eric Key | Steve Smith | James Luck |
| 2001 | GM Bogdan Lalic | Michael Smart | Chris Kreuzer | Sabrina Chevannes | Rod Burroughs |
| Julien Shepley | Alan Trent | ||||
| Adeoye Dasaolu | Douglas Bramley | ||||
| Brian Sutton | Ian Leighton | ||||
| 2000 | Branko Bogdanovic | Benjamin Morgan | Karl Forman | Anthony Duncan | John McKeon |
| Ben Savage | |||||
| Charles Tipplestone | |||||
| 1999 | Paul Georghiou | Andrew Horton-Kitchlew | Charles Bullock | Jonathan Somekh | Philip Chapman |
| Richard Mycroft | |||||
| 1998 | Philip Potopaev | Nick de Peyer | Lara Osiyemi | Peter Gill | John Dawson |
| Peter Tart | David Waltham | Derek Hanson | |||