The 3rd Big Slick International is taking place from the 22nd to 30th June 2013 at Big Slick, Unit 10, Royal oak centre, Brighton Road, Purley, Surrey CR8 2BG, England.

Tournament format: FIDE rated 10 player, nine round, all-play-all with one game per day. There are one GM and one IM norm section.

The time limit is 90 minutes for 40 moves + 30 minutes with 30 seconds cumulative increment for each move starting from the first move. All rounds start at 12.00.

The Chief Arbiter is International Arbiter David Sedgwick. Simon Williams and Lawrence Cooper are organizing the event.

After four rounds, the GM norm event is led by Yang-Fan Zhou.

Tournament website

Standings after 4 rounds – GM section:

Zhou 3
Longson, Gormally, Trent, Lalic 2.5
Franklin 2
Arkell 1.5 (out of 3)
Nemcova, Radovanovic 1
Panjwani 0.5 (out of 3)

Standings after 4 rounds – IM section:

Sarakauskas, Merry 3.5
McClement, Rudd 2.5
Lyell 2
Meszaros, Olsarova, Vogel 1.5
Bates 1
House 0.5

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