Justin Kirton finished off the 2025 Kevin Denny Open chess tournament with an impressive victory over Cyprian La Touche to capture the event and lead a trio of players in qualifying for the 2025 Barbados National Open chess championship finals later this year. Kirton finished with a commendable 6 ½ points from his 7 matches.

The versatile Emar Edwards ground down the veteran Othneil Harewood in his final round game to finish in second place with 6 points and follow Kirton into the finals.

However, the fireworks occurred in the table three match where the current Under 16 champion Noah Clarke battled against the current Under 11 champion, Jeremiah Farley. This was a battle to determine who would be the third-place finisher and who would acquire the final qualifying spot for the 2025 national finals from this event. It was a game that lasted over 4 hours and what seemed like a slight advantage for Clarke as he went into the endgame, eventually vanished under time pressure and it was the younger Farley who would clinch victory and become the youngest player to qualify for a national championship final. Thus Kirton, Edwards and Farley would qualify for the 2025 championship.

Other results in the round saw victories for Janiyah Browne, Alfred Sparman and Dominic Cadogan.

It was a memorable event played in the historic Main Guard of the Barbados Defense Force with historic memorabilia photos of the history of the Barbados armed surfaces.  Thus, it was only suitable that historic events would follow such as Jeremiah Farley becoming the youngest player to qualify for a national chess championship final, as well as Justin Kirton also clinching his first qualifying event.

This event is named after International master Kevin Denny, who was the first person in the English-speaking Caribbean to reach that title and also, he was a winner of the Barbados chess championship over a dozen times.