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Round 1
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The tournament hall ready for round one
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The Mayor (Cllr. Maureen Charlesworth) and Hastings MP (Michael Foster),
Stewart Reuben
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Petr Marusenko v Valerij Neverov
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David Howell v Raymond Kaufman
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Top 4 boards in round 1
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Boards 5 - 8 in round 1.
Gawain Jones vs Sahaj Grover, nearest camera
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Round 3
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Peter Poobalasingam formerly of Millfield School, now at Bath
University
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Adam Hunt at the start of round 3 having drawn with David Howell in
the previous round
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IM Jack Rudd of North Devon
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GM Stewart Haslinger of Formby, Merseyside
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Round 3 just underway
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Aly Wilson gets some help from IM Adam Hunt, GM Simon Williams and GM
Danny Gormally in analysing her round 3 draw with Matthew Anderton.
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England's boards 4 & 5 at the recent Olympiad held in Dresden
commence their round 4 encounter. Stuart Conquest has white against
Gawain Jones.
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Round 4
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Stuart Conquest
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Mark Hebden
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Gawain Jones
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David Howell
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Karl McPhillips of Ireland
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Round 5
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David Howell v Jack Rudd
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Willy Hendriks v Valerij Neverov
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Didier Leroy v Adam Hunt
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Gawain Jones v Igor Kurnosov
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Round 6
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Sohel Chowdhury - Bangladesh
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Hannah Dale - England
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Martin Mitchell - Scotland
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Malek Mohammed Abdul
- Bangladesh
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David Cilia Vincenti - Malta
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Uwe Nebel - Germany
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Christine Flear - France
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Aly Wilson - Switzerland
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Round 7
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Emanuel Berg v Valerij Neverovl
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Richard Bates v Aaron Summerscale
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Simon Williams v Stuart Conquest
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Boards 1-3
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David Howell v Igor Kurnosov
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Adam Hunt v Gawain Jones
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General shots of the tournament hall with the Masters and Weekend
tournaments taking place at the same time.
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Round 8
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Ian Snape
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Jovanka Houska
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Didier Leroy - France
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Gudmundur Kjartansson - Iceland
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David Howell v Jovanka Houska
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Round 9
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Board 1
Valerij Neverov v Igor Kurnosov
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Board 2
David Howell v Stuart Conquest
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Board 3
Emanuel Berg v Andrew Greet
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Manuel Conde - Spain
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Rasa Norinkeviciute - Lithuania
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Konstantinos Nikolaidis - Greece
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Willie Hendriks - Holland
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Birk Rolvag - Norway
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Jens Nebel - Germany
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Sahaj Grover - India
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Evangelos Kakkanas - Greece
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Sohel Chowdhury - Bangladesh
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Jacques Bernard - France
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Alan Grant - Scotland
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Arne Hagesaether - Norway
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Einora Juciute - Lithuania
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Prize giving
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MP for Hastings and Rye Michael Foster accepts the award of
vice-presidency from ECF International Director Stewart Reuben
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Gawain Jones, Stewart Haslinger and Milos Pavlovic with the
chairman of Hastings Chess Congress committee, Councilor Paul Smith
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Jack Rudd who was elected as the 2009 player's representative
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Jovanka Houska - the highest placed female player
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Councillor Peter Pragnell, Leader of Hastings Borough Council shaking
hands with Andrew Green of Scotland winner of two prizes
1 - The highest placed player who is neither a GM nor IM and
2 - Best Relative FIDE Rating performance by a player rated under 2200
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Alan Hustawayte present a special chess set to the winner of the
best rating performance prize
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David Howell, Stuart Conquest, Simon Williams and Mark Hebden with
Councillor Peter Pragnell, Leader of Hastings Borough Council and
Councillor Paul Smith
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Equal second Emanuel Berg of Sweden and Valerij Neverov of Ukraine
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Igor Kurnosov of Russia with Hastings Council leader and MP
Michael Foster
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Igor making his acceptance speech.
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Igor with the magnificent winner's trophy
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The packed prize giving ceremony
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