Results and prizes from the FIDE Congress of 27 and 28 November 2021

Thanks for playing in the tournament.  Thanks to Rob Hammond and Lance Leslie-Smith for running the event!

Here are the prize winners from this weekend 

Under 2200 (this will be Under 2400 from January 2022) - Alex Leslie 4.5/5 winning £150.00. Four players tied for 2nd, Martin Faulkner, Gary Senior, Tim Rogers and Jaspaul Bagri with 4/5. They won £20.00 each.  Harry Zheng and Toby Cox shared the rating prize winning £40.00 each for their score of 3.5/5.

Under 1900 - Tashika Arora and Sean Gordon won with 4.5/5 and won £112.50 each. Alex Gao (1036) won the rating prize of £80.00 with 3/5.

Under 1700 - Niklas Steenfatt won £120.00 for his score of 4.5/5. Four players shared second place with 3.5/5 - Mark McWilliams, William Marsh, Jacob Liu winning £20.00 each and Madhav Kaushik who won the rating prize of £40.00.

If you have won a prize email me with your bank account and sort code, and I will pay it as soon as I can.

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