4th British Open Table Tantrix Championship
at Mind Sports Olympiad Cambridge
Sat 7 May - Sun 8 May 2005

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The top three with their prizes
No. 8 seed László Szobonya from Hungary won the 4th British Open Table Tantrix Championship which took place at the provincial Mind Sports Olympiad event in Cambridge ("MSO Cambridge") on the weekend of 7-8 May 2005. No. 11 seed Attila Mikulan and 2004 European Champion Tamás Gombköto, the no. 5 seed, completed a Hungarian sweep of the main medals. Attila and Tamás also won under-18 gold and silver with last year's junior gold medallist Niklas Andersson winning under-18 bronze this time.

There was home success in the 'Rising Stars' competition for lower-rated players, with Esther Purnell from Radstock, who had been sponsored to attend the British Open by Wassail Games after winning a tournament in Frome, winning the gold medal and Malcolm Preen from Harlow the bronze. Jens Ekengren from Sweden won silver in this event.

Intense, exciting and above all very friendly, the British Open was open to players of all standards from all over the world. Entrants included reigning World Tantrix Champion Péter Petrecz ITM and eleven countries were represented this year - their flags can be seen below.

The final positions of all entrants can be seen at the bottom of this page. Missing data from the list below will be published later today with more photos from the event coming soon!

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SUNDAY RESULTS - basic:         The FINAL     Division 1     Division 2     Division 3     Division 4
SATURDAY RESULTS - full:     Summary of all groups     Group A     Group B     Group C     Group D

HALL OF FAME - the top three in each Tantrix tournament ever played

FIRST FEW PHOTOS:     Group Photo     Hungarian pics     Petra's pics     Eleanor's pics
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Details of the 2004 British Open


"Town's Loopy Over Tantrix" press article about the Frome qualifying event on 30 March 2005.

 2005 BRITISH OPEN TABLE TANTRIX - FINAL POSITIONS
Main Jun. R.Str Player Name (seed) Country PreSP Pld Won Sat. Sun.
In the FINAL on Sunday ('Sun.' scores are TPs in the Final)
1st László Szobonya (8) HUN
 
(1908) 15 10.0 B-2nd 93.4
2nd 1st Attila Mikulan (11) # HUN
 
(1853) 15 10.5 C-1st 88.1
3rd 2nd Tamás Gombkötő (5) # HUN
 
(1940) 15 11.5 D-1st 85.6
4th Heli Niemi (TTM) (2) FIN
 
(1968) 15 10.0 B-1st 76.8
5th 3rd Niklas Andersson (1) # SWE
 
(2005) 16 11.0 A-2nd 71.1
6th Lennart Aspelin SWE
 
(1826) 15 8.0 C-2nd 67.9
7th Ben Polman (ITM) (7) NED
 
(1919) 16 10.5 A-1st 45.3
8th Monica Andersson (9) SWE
 
(1871) 15 7.5 D-2nd 31.8
In DIVISION 1 on Sunday ('Sun.' scores are TPs in Division 1)
9th Péter Petrecz (ITM) (4) HUN
 
(1951) 15 11.0 D-3rd 100.9
10th Marion Scott (12) ENG
(1852) 16 12.0 A-3rd 89.8
11th 4th Joe Ruby (16) # USA
(1830) 15 9.5 C-3rd 83.2
12th 1st Esther Purnell * ENG
(1440) 15 8.0 B-4th 68.0
13th 2nd Jens Ekengren * SWE
 
(1664) 15 7.0 D-4th 62.6
14th Susi Rieger GER
 
(1765) 15 6.0 B-3rd 59.7
15th 3rd Malcolm Preen * SCO
(1649) 15 6.5 C-4th 54.8
16th 4th Tuomo Niemi * FIN
 
(1671) 16 6.5 A-4th 41.0
In DIVISION 2 on Sunday ('Sun.' scores are TPs in Division 2)
17th 5th Simon Wright (6) # NIR
(1921) 15 8.0 C-6th 90.6
18th Vincent Auger (14) FRA
 
(1838) 15 10.0 B-6th 85.8
19th László Harsanyi HUN
 
(1778) 16 11.0 A-5th 82.5
20th 6th Ádám Petrecz # HUN
 
(1807) 15 8.0 B-5th 77.2
21st 5th Judy Moore * ENG
(1450) 16 7.0 A-6th 64.1
22nd 6th Klaus Quecke * GER
 
(1605) 15 7.0 D-6th 57.7
23rd Petra Wark NED
 
(1776) 15 6.0 C-5th 52.6
24th 7th Andrea Frank * GER
 
(0772) 15 6.0 D-5th 49.5
In DIVISION 3 on Sunday ('Sun.' scores are TPs in Division 3)
25th Eleanor Gordon (13) ENG
(1850) 16 8.5 A-7th 94.4
26th 8th Claire Hynde * IOM
(1176) 16 8.0 A-8th 90.7
27th 7th Markus Andersson # SWE
 
(1784) 15 7.0 D-7th 89.5
28th Mauro Lazzara SCO
(1826) 15 7.0 B-7th 79.0
29th Mária Erdey-Grúz (15) HUN
 
(1832) 15 6.0 D-8th 75.4
30th 9th Mike Gwilliam * ENG
(1425) 15 5.0 C-8th 54.3
31st 10th Steve Moore * ENG
(1070) 15 5.5 C-7th 48.7
32nd 8th 11th Malin Aspelin *# SWE
 
(1655) 15 3.0 B-8th 28.0
In DIVISION 4 on Sunday ('Sun.' scores are TPs in Division 4)
33rd 12th Madeleine Hjelm * SWE
 
(0768) 12 4.0 B-9th 41.6
34th 13th Matthias Merz * GER
 
(1626) 13 4.0 A-9th 41.4
35th David Lawrence ENG
(1595) 12 2.0 D-9th 37.0
36th Kevin Scott (3) ENG
(1968) 8 2.0 C-9th w/d
37th 14th Marc Kerr * ENG
(0750) 9 0.5 A-10th w/d
# = eligible for Junior competition; * = eligible for Rising Stars competition
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