North Of The Humber

ARRIVED in Newcastle late yesterday afternoon for Tim Wall's Northumbria congress, which is being held at a Novotel roughly halfway between the city centre and the airport.

The playing venue being prepared last night

There are three nine-round tournaments, Masters, Challengers (U2050 & U180) and Major (U1825 & U150), and two one-day junior rapids.
The main tournaments feature one round this evening (18.30) followed by four days of two rounds (10.00 & 15.00).
I am playing in the Challengers, which has the following entrants:

No.		Name	FideID	FED	Rtg
1		Hubbard Michael	430137	ENG	1946
2		Muellenbruck Stefan	24618446	GER	1935
3		Bhopal Raj	2404443	SCO	1931
4		Nandi Robin J	434604	ENG	1920
5		Reynolds Mark A	421227	ENG	1917
6		Bielby Paul R	429864	ENG	1916
7		Jennings Richard	2404435	SCO	1915
8		Riding Mick D	430102	ENG	1893
9		Macnaughton Alistair	461059	ENG	1885
10		Spanton Tim R	404802	ENG	1881
11		Wynarczyk Raymond	415081	ENG	1847
12		Couch Mark	441490	ENG	1840
13		Robson Paul E	424803	ENG	1829
14		Kane Robert	420468	ENG	1822
15		Mcguinness Simon P	450146	ENG	1819
16		Parry Samuel	460397	ENG	1773
17		Gogia Armaan	452203	ENG	1754
18		Macdonald Ciaran	486400	ENG	1743
19		Turner James	430293	ENG	1719
20		Hall David G	2402394	SCO	1683
21		Ratnesan Rajeiv	439320	ENG	1647
22		Stoyanov Boris	456462	ENG	1592
23	AFM	Bridgeman Niamh	343113833	ENG	1511