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Events Supp 26 ECF, JUNIOR & LOCAL EV+ ENNTSational, Junio rS & LoUPPLEcal Events supplemeMnts ENT MCCU U175 JAMBOREE BIG BROTHER COMES TO HASTINGS! Sadly the event scheduled for 20th January did not take place. The 82nd Hastings International Chess Congress ended on 3 teams had entered but 2 pulled out only 3 days before the Sunday 7th January. Over 450 entries from 21 countries took event. This was most disappointing, as a number of people part in the annual event at Horntye Park Sports Complex. had gone to a good deal of time and effort to find a suitable venue. Thanks to the kindness of Blackford’s Progressive The Trustees of Horntye Park Sports Complex awarded a Working Mans’ Club in Cannock in refunding the hire fee in Brilliancy prize of £100 plus a trophy which was won by Simon full. As a result the 1 remaining team Manchester will Williams (ENG) for two of his games during the event. English receive the MCCU nomination for the ECF stages. player Chris Briscoe achieved an international master norm which will count towards his international title and also won a prize for best performance against rating awarded by Alan Hustwayte. I NSIDE THIS SUPPLEMENT On Thursday 4th January the Hastings University Centre held 2 Hastings Masters an Open Day and evening reception for chess players to enable 3 Forthcoming Events them to see the National Chess Library which is now housed at UCH. This proved extremely popular and it is expected to 4 Bury Congress attract visitors from this country and overseas throughout the year. The organisers of Hastings Chess Congress express their ECF Grand Prix standings 5 thanks to UCH for this added attraction to their event which 7 Wrekin Congress was much appreciated by all concerned. 7 Kilkenny Masters On the same day the Congress was visited by Big Brother’s Big 8 ECF National Club Mouth who filmed during the afternoon, canvassing opinions among chess players about the Big Brother show - certainly a + 4NCL Results & Tables million miles away from the serious nature of the event but the resulting short slot in the BBBM programme was entertaining. + MCCU County team results supplement PDF created with pdfFactory Pro trial version www.pdffactory.com On the evening of the 4th chess player Steve Rush - a former No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR professional snooker player gave an exhibition match at Riley’s 44 FOWLER, Simon 5.0 38.5 19.25 24.5 2201 2174 Snooker club. 53 VRBAN, Damir 5.0 33.0 17.00 20.0 2130 2145 60 HUMPHREYS, Jerry 5.0 39.5 20.25 21.5 2106 2163 88 FOORD, Dominic 5.0 38.5 19.25 22.5 1894 2222 Final Ranking Hastings Masters 44. 27 HUSS, Andreas 4.5 44.5 19.75 26.5 2338 2257 32 LEDGER, David 4.5 46.5 20.50 28.0 2276 2319 No. PNo. Name Score WP SB PS rat. TPR 34 BRITTON, Richard 4.5 42.0 16.75 26.0 2261 2261 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 37 SCHUURMAN, Petra 4.5 48.0 22.00 25.0 2238 2306 1. 1 GAGUNASHVILI, Merab 7.0 53.5 40.75 38.5 2611 2675 39 JACKSON, Oliver 4.5 38.0 16.25 22.5 2225 2133 5 NEVEROV, Valerij 7.0 45.5 34.00 32.5 2538 2534 41 CAFFERTY, Bernard 4.5 43.0 19.50 24.0 2207 2171 3. 2 IKONNIKOV, Wacheslav 6.5 52.0 37.00 34.0 2588 2552 47 GROFFEN, Hans 4.5 36.5 15.25 22.5 2180 2133 6 GOFSHTEIN, Zvulon 6.5 50.5 34.00 36.0 2509 2574 50 SUGDEN, John 4.5 40.5 17.25 23.5 2158 2100 7 PAVLOVIC, Milos 6.5 50.5 34.75 36.5 2507 2576 51 MUTER, Donny 4.5 43.5 19.00 23.5 2146 2220 8 PERT, Nicholas 6.5 52.0 36.50 34.0 2502 2558 67 PICKERSGILL, Adrian 4.5 36.5 16.50 19.0 2093 2117 9 LALIC, Bogdan 6.5 47.0 33.00 32.5 2491 2478 70 POOBALASINGAM, Peter 4.5 35.5 13.50 21.5 2077 2132 11 CHERNIAEV, Alexander 6.5 50.0 34.25 36.5 2472 2554 91 COHEN, Ronnie 4.5 39.0 18.00 19.5 1841 2133 9. 10 WILLIAMS, Simon 6.0 49.5 30.00 32.0 2473 2497 56. 46 MULLIGAN, Stephen 4.0 37.0 16.00 21.0 2199 1964 13 GREET, Andrew 6.0 47.5 30.25 32.5 2439 2409 49 DICKSON, George 4.0 41.0 15.75 20.5 2171 2117 19 ANSELL, Simon 6.0 50.5 30.50 35.0 2394 2549 54 ALMOND, Richard 4.0 35.0 14.00 16.5 2124 2063 20 GROOTEN, Herman 6.0 43.5 25.75 26.5 2387 2337 57 DONOVAN, Nigel 4.0 38.5 11.75 19.5 2119 2120 21 RENDLE, Thomas 6.0 46.5 29.00 30.0 2382 2403 62 ARMSTRONG, Malcolm 4.0 44.0 18.50 21.0 2101 2179 22 KNOTT, Simon 6.0 42.5 27.50 29.0 2375 2382 64 HUTCHINSON, Norman 4.0 36.5 12.00 20.0 2097 1931 30 RUDD, Jack 6.0 47.0 29.75 29.5 2310 2435 66 CHEVANNES, Sabrina 4.0 38.5 14.75 17.0 2093 2011 55 BRISCOE, Christopher 6.0 44.5 29.25 27.0 2121 2465 69 LUNN, Timothy 4.0 37.0 13.50 20.0 2079 2075 17. 3 HEBDEN, Mark 5.5 44.0 26.50 29.0 2545 2382 71 HAYDON, David 4.0 29.5 9.75 15.5 2073 2029 15 HASLINGER, Stewart 5.5 50.0 28.50 31.0 2438 2391 72 CALVERT, D. 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