Great Yarmouth Congress

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Phil Makepeace
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Great Yarmouth Congress

Post by Phil Makepeace » Fri Apr 27, 2012 12:43 am

Myself and Chris Russell will be providing round-by-round updates via @rtkchess on Twitter.

Phil Makepeace
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Re: Great Yarmouth Congress

Post by Phil Makepeace » Sat Apr 28, 2012 12:16 pm

We're underway. Top seeds in the Open:

IM Tozer (217)
IM Bellin (213)
Spence (207)
Chapman (200)
Orton (199)

Brendan O'Gorman's in the Major and he's been wielding his camera. Expect arty shots to follow.

Updates only on Twitter from now on.

Brendan O'Gorman
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Re: Great Yarmouth Congress

Post by Brendan O'Gorman » Mon Apr 30, 2012 12:03 pm

And sure enough … http://tinyurl.com/GtYarmouthPics

John Sargent
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Re: Great Yarmouth Congress

Post by John Sargent » Mon Apr 30, 2012 3:26 pm

Amazing venue!!! Looks like a lot of fun :D

Ted Matthewson
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Re: Great Yarmouth Congress

Post by Ted Matthewson » Sun May 06, 2012 11:26 am

Hi Brendan et al

I was wielding my camera too, and totally agree, what a fantastic venue that was. Apologies for pretentious music etc :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjEvS4iJWSM

Full results may be found here:-

http://www.c4results.org.uk/chess/php/D ... EventId=47

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Re: Great Yarmouth Congress

Post by Brendan O'Gorman » Mon May 07, 2012 2:09 pm

Ted,

Congrats on your splendid showing - joint second in the Open is impressive. My loss to you last year doesn't hurt quite so much now!

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