Leaders after 5 rounds:
| Rank | Name | Flags | Score | Fed. | M/F | Rating | TPR | W-We | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GM Istratescu, Andrei | 4.5 | ROU | M | 2624 | 2795 | +0.81 | ||||||
| 2 | GM Drozdovskij, Yuri | 4.0 | UKR | M | 2625 | 2619 | +0.07 | ||||||
| 3 | GM Hracek, Zbynek | 4.0 | CZE | M | 2624 | 2580 | -0.14 | ||||||
| 4 | GM Edouard, Romain | 4.0 | FRA | M | 2620 | 2639 | +0.20 | ||||||
| 5 | GM Hebden, Mark L | 4.0 | ENG | M | 2522 | 2573 | +0.40 | ||||||
| 6 | GM Arkell, Keith C | 4.0 | ENG | M | 2464 | 2626 | +0.98 | ||||||
| 7 | IM Philippe, Christophe | 4.0 | FRA | M | 2430 | 2565 | +0.84 | ||||||
| 8 | IM Greet, Andrew N | 4.0 | ENG | M | 2423 | 2504 | +0.53 | ||||||
| 9 | GM Howell, David W L | 3.5 | ENG | M | 2597 | 2532 | -0.26 | ||||||
| 10 | GM Gormally, Daniel W | 3.5 | ENG | M | 2479 | 2431 | -0.21 | ||||||
| 11 | IM Kjartansson, Gudmundur | 3.5 | ISL | M | 2391 | 2314 | -0.37 | ||||||
| 12 | IM Ansell, Simon T | 3.5 | ENG | M | 2387 | 2419 | +0.28 | ||||||
| 13 | FM Strunski, Andreas | 3.5 | GER | M | 2386 | 2270 | -0.59 | ||||||
| 14 | FM Hawkins, Jonathan | 3.5 | ENG | M | 2383 | 2608 | +1.50 | ||||||
| 15 | IM Giffard, Nicolas | 3.5 | FRA | M | 2351 | 2360 | +0.13 | ||||||
| 16 | FM Eames, Robert S | 3.5 | ENG | M | 2276 | 2397 | +0.77 | ||||||
| 17 | FM Furman, Boris | 3.5 | RUS | M | 2223 | 2332 | +0.74 | ||||||
| 18 | Sugden, John N | 3.5 | ENG | M | 2219 | 2331 | +0.60 | ||||||
| 19 | Demac, Elias | 3.5 | NOR | M | 2084 | 2405 | +2.02 | ||||||
| 20 | Williams, Peter A | 3.5 | ENG | M | 2012 | 2419 | +2.53 |
Full results here: http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/2010/SMWSite/index.html
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
How far is Hastings from London?
Depends how you travel, as the crow flies, if you can find a strong enough crow to carry you, it’s about 75 miles. By the more prosaic method, ie train it takes 1:30-1:45 mis depending on how many stations it stops at on the way. Quickest to go from Charing Cross 🙂