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Festival Prize List 2018 (published 18/12/2018) FIDE Open 1st= GM Jules Moussard FRA Asnieres 7½ £4,500 GM Nicholas Pert ENG 4NCL Guildford 7½ £4,500 3rd= GM Sebastian Bogner SUI Ask Reti Zurich 7 £1,400 GM Daniil Yuffa RUS 7 £1,400 GM Andrei Istratescu ROU UV Timisoara 7 £1,400 GM Tiger Hillarp Persson SWE 7 £1,400 IM Ameet Ghasi ENG Richmond & Twickenham 7 £1,400 8th= GM Hrant Melkumyan ARM 6½ £115.38 GM Matthieu Cornette FRA 4NCL Celtic Tigers 6½ £115.38 GM Jonathan Hawkins ENG 4NCL Cheddleton 6½ £115.38 GM Das Debashis IND 6½ £115.38 GM Daniel Gormally ENG 4NCL Blackthorne Russia 6½ £115.38 IM Szymon Gumularz POL KSZ Polonia Wroclaw 6½ £115.38 GM Keith Arkell ENG 4NCL Cheddleton 6½ £115.38 IM Yang-Fan Zhou ENG 4NCL Guildford 6½ £115.38 IM Richard Pert ENG Brentwood 6½ £115.38 FM Piotr Piesik POL UKS Hetman Czestochowa 6½ £115.38 GM Neil McDonald ENG 4NCL Wood Green 6½ £115.38 Kostantinos Megalios GRE Apo Kotinos 6½ £115.38 FM Adam C Taylor ENG 4NCL Wood Green 6½ £115.38 2250 – 2349 1st FM Kacper Tomaszewski POL MKSZ Rybnik +1.80 £300 2nd IM Neil Bradbury ENG +1.33 £200 3rd Li Wu ENG +0.77 £100 2150 – 2249 1st Andrew McClement SCO Oban +1.37 £300 2nd Haribalu Venkataramanaraju IND +1.23 £200 3rd Kumar Sumit IND +1.08 £100 2050 – 2149 1st Daniel Johnson SWE SSK Hammaro +2.95 £300 2nd Lennart Sperling GER SG Kaarst +2.35 £200 3rd Zhi Wei William Woong SGP +1.98 £100 Women 1st IM Sophie Milliet FRA 4NCL Guildford 6 £500 2nd = WIM Gulmira Dauletova KAZ 5½ £175 WFM Lena Georgescu SUI SK Luzen 5½ £175 ENG Women 1st= WFM Meri Grigoryan ENG 4½ £375 Nadia Jaufarally ENG St. Albans 4½ £375 3rd= WFM Sarah Longson ENG Marple 4 £50 WFM Louise Head ENG Crowthorne 4 £50 ENG Juniors 1st FM Adam C Taylor ENG 4NCL Wood Green 6½ £500 2nd= FM Matthew Wadsworth ENG Maidenhead 5½ £175 FM Borna Derakhshani ENG Tehran 5½ £175 Norms Kostantinos Megalios GRE Apo Kotinos 6½ GM FM Piotr Piesik POL UKS Hetman Czestochowa 6½ IM 5-Day Under 2050 1st= Jonathan Underwood ENG Seaton 4½ £200 Joel Bird ENG Muswell Hill 4½ £200 Robert Jacobs ENG Tunbridge Wells 4½ £200 U1900 Rating 1st Marcin Zielinski POL Uks 21 Podlesie Katowice +2.43 £100 U1900 Rating 2nd Nicola-Alexandru Mircov ROU CSU Arad +2.40 £50 5-Day Under 1750 1st Tibo Rushbrooke ENG 5 £250 2nd= Oliver Finnegan ENG BBCA 4½ £175 WIM Sune du Toit RSA 4½ £175 U1600 Rating 1st Frankie Badasconyi ENG Muswell Hill +2.83 £100 U1600 Rating 2nd Joseph Thornton ENG Hackney +2.32 £50 Weekend Open 1st= FM Koby Kalavannan ENG Surbiton 4½ £237.50 Ryszard Maciol POL 4NCL Celtic Tigers 4½ £237.50 3rd= James Holland ENG Surbiton 4 £33.33 Michael Healey ENG Richmond 4 £33.33 William Taylor ENG Drunken Knights 4 £33.33 U2200 Rating 1st Chris A Smith ENG North Bristol +2.36 £100 2nd Zi Chao Jonah Huang SGP +2.12 £50 3rd Barry Hymer ENG Lancaster +2.10 £25 Weekend Under 2050 1st Harry Li ENG 5 £300 2nd= Ivan Myall ENG Chelmsford 4 £68.75 Eldar Alizada ENG Cumnor 4 £68.75 Brendan Ruane ENG Hastings St. Leonards 4 £68.75 Jacob Watson ENG Petts Wood & Orpington 4 £68.75 Oliver Stubbs ENG Downend & Fishponds 4 - 2nd= place prize not awarded to Oliver Stubbs – U1950 rating prize 1st worth more U1950 Rating 1st Oliver Stubbs ENG Downend & Fishponds +2.60 £100 2nd Martin Kopernicky ENG Edinburgh University +2.42 £50 3rd Isaac Rodriguez ENG Morley +2.01 £25 Weekend Under 1825 1st Finlay Bowcott-Terry ENG Halesowen 5 £300 2nd Oliver Finnegan ENG BBCA 4½ £175 3rd= Matthew Hortin ENG Old Whitgiftians 4 £25 Bernard Chan Sheng Liang MAS University of Leeds 4 £25 Lukasz Piecha ENG Winchester 4 £25 Charles Musselman USA 4 £25 Rajeiv Ratnesan ENG Surbiton 4 - Tim Valentine ENG Battersea 4 - 3rd= place prize not awarded to Rajeiv Ratnesan – U1725 rating prize 3rd worth more when he is included in the list of 3rd place prize winners 3rd= place prize not awarded to Tim Valentine – U1725 rating prize 1st worth more U1725 Rating 1st Tim Valentine ENG Battersea +2.37 £100 Finlay Bowcott-Terry ENG Halesowen +2.24 - 2nd rating prize not awarded to Finlay Bowcott-Terry – 1st place prize worth more 2nd Lorenzo Fava ITA +2.23 £50 3rd Rajeiv Ratnesan ENG Surbiton +2.10 £25 Weekend Under 1600 1st= Shir Satil ISR Etude Ramat-Gan 5 £237.50 Samuel Ward-Riggs ENG 5 £237.50 3rd= Hengrui Cao CHN 4½ £100 U1500 Rating 1st Zoha Ashraf ENG Brookfield Primary +2.48 £100 2nd Aman Dhanuka IND +1.83 £50 3rd Andrew Volovich ENG Cambridge Juniors +1.61 £25 .
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