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Last update: Friday November 11, 2005 12:48

42nd Hull Congress, 4-6 November 2005

Venue: Quality Royal Hotel, Hull

Controllers : John Lawson - Colin Hailstone - John Bycroft.

107 players took part in the Congress.

J P Lawson
Congress Organiser

R.P.Ross OPEN (14 players)
1 = John Cooper (Hull) 4/5 Retains Hull Championship
  Oliver Gill (Maidstone) 4/5  
3 = J Woolley (York R.I.) 3½/5 Grade Prize
  R Jennings (Rose Forgrove) 3½/5 Grade Prize
  S Kaminsky (Lithuania) 3½/5 Grade Prize
Ted Starkey MAJOR (24 players)
1 J Davis (Worksop) 4½/5  
2 Dean Hartley (Amber Valley) 4/5 Grade Prize A
3 = R Plater (Newcastle) 3½/5  
  M Round (Rose Forgrove) 3½/5  
  Tim Turner (York R.I.) 3½/5  
6 = Andrew Bettley (St Andrews) 3/5 Grade Prize B
  A Jon Griffith (York R.I.) 3/5 Grade Prize B
John Lawson INTERMEDIATE (38 players)
1 = B Hesler (Hull) 4½/5  
  S Allott (Grimsby) 4½/5  
3 M Kelly (Grimsby) 4/5 Grade Prize A
4 = Dave Milton (Calderdale) 3½/5 Grade Prize B
  R Walker (Belper) 3½/5 Grade Prize B
15 = Norman Andrews (York R.I.) 2½/5 Grade Prize C
  J Merry (Salford) 2½/5 Grade Prize C
  S Sriharan (York R.I.) 2½/5 Grade Prize C
  Mike Butt (Willows) 2½/5 Grade Prize C
Eric Fisher MINOR (30 players)
1 A Lang (Bingley) 4½/5  
2 = W. Bazley (Bottesford) 4/5 Grade Prize A
  John Thompson (Willows) 4/5 Grade Prize B
8 = K Rajeswaran (Wakefield) 3/5 Junior Prize