It was a really tough tournament this year. Jonny, Sjeng and Rybka on huge clusters. 20 competitors something we have not seen for a long time in a Computer Chess event.
Hiarcs had a pretty good tournament. =2nd not a bad result.
The tournament ran very smoothly this year. Thanks to Jan Krabbenbos for the regular updates on the
www.csvn.nl site. I think it is very important that these tournaments are not played in a bubble and that the outside world is kept up to date.
An apology from me for not broadcasting the Hiarcs games on Playchess. I had a brand new laptop which died during round 1. So I just had my netbook and was unable to broadcast
A special thanks to Richard Pijl for bringing 3 very good bottles of Malt! We got to bed around 4 in the morning on Sunday
Thanks also to the rest of the Hiarcs team. A special thanks to Mark and also to Rob for being on standby in the USA in case my machine in London became unavailable for any reason.
As well as the report on the CSVN website there is also an article here
http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6839