28th 4NCL Congress Open starts today and will be played over the weekend 8-10 July at Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
The event features three tournaments: Open, Under 2000 and U1700, with all events being played in 5 swiss rounds, with time control: All moves in 90 minutes plus 30 second increment per move from move 1. The total prize fund of the events is 3.000£.
Nearly 200 players registered for the tournaments, and the top seeds of the Open tournament are: the 2022 Chessable English Chess Champion of two categories GM Mark Hebden, GM Daniel Gormally, and GM Nigel Davies. (Scroll down for starting rank list of all sections)
Starting rank list 28th 4NCL Congress Open:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Hebden Mark L | ENG | 2546 |
| 2 | GM | Gormally Daniel W | ENG | 2494 |
| 3 | GM | Davies Nigel R | ENG | 2441 |
| 4 | IM | Quillan Gary | ENG | 2386 |
| 5 | Jones Steven A | ENG | 2348 | |
| 6 | FM | Bezuidenhout Roland | RSA | 2346 |
| 7 | Gallana Marco | ITA | 2344 | |
| 8 | Dignam Matthew P | IRL | 2289 | |
| 9 | Taylor Adam A | ENG | 2288 | |
| 10 | Schwartz Julius | SCO | 2285 | |
| 11 | IM | Bradbury Neil H | ENG | 2274 |
| 12 | FM | Martin Lewis | ENG | 2273 |
| 13 | Sedykh Mikhail | ENG | 2273 | |
| 14 | Okhai Shabir | ENG | 2265 | |
| 15 | Zhang Anthony Y | ENG | 2237 | |
| 16 | FM | Walker Martin G | ENG | 2232 |
| 17 | Payne Matthew J | ENG | 2230 | |
| 18 | Brewer Callum D | ENG | 2226 | |
| 19 | Carroll Thomas | ENG | 2226 | |
| 20 | Ogunshola Olugbemiga (Ben) | NGR | 2224 | |
| 21 | Modi Shyam Jagdish | ENG | 2222 | |
| 22 | FM | Jackson Oliver A | ENG | 2197 |
| 23 | Agnew Alan | ENG | 2195 | |
| 24 | Burrows Martin P | ENG | 2179 | |
| 25 | Kolani Arjun | ENG | 2163 | |
| 26 | Ther Mate | ENG | 2153 | |
| 27 | WFM | Richmond Jane | WLS | 2152 |
| 28 | James Russell A | ENG | 2148 | |
| 29 | Mulay Partha | ENG | 2139 | |
| 30 | Stubbs Oliver | ENG | 2134 | |
| 31 | Jina Taran | ENG | 2131 | |
| 32 | Modi Kishan J | ENG | 2128 | |
| 33 | Seymour Timothy P | ENG | 2125 | |
| 34 | CM | Goater Kevin P | ENG | 2115 |
| 35 | Ireland David J | ENG | 2106 | |
| 36 | Gomez Daniel | ENG | 2094 | |
| 37 | Ackley Peter JE | ENG | 2092 | |
| 38 | Arora Tashika | ENG | 2090 | |
| 39 | Shearsby Jude | ENG | 2071 | |
| 40 | Pink Joshua | ENG | 2066 | |
| 41 | Vleeshhouwer Douglas | ENG | 2062 | |
| 42 | Saunders Aron | ENG | 2055 | |
| 43 | Phan Stefanus | SGP | 2049 | |
| 44 | Chauhan Pranay | ENG | 2047 | |
| 45 | Varley Joe | ENG | 2047 | |
| 46 | Weersing Abigail R | ENG | 2041 | |
| 47 | Buanne Luca | ENG | 2038 | |
| 48 | Chan Sheng Liang Bernard | MAS | 2037 | |
| 49 | Brixel Christof | GER | 2026 | |
| 50 | Gregory Keith DF | ENG | 2024 | |
| 51 | Pal Rohan | ENG | 2022 | |
| 52 | Simpson Joshua | ENG | 2022 | |
| 53 | Cast Julian | ENG | 2021 | |
| 54 | Sullivan Daniel JS | ENG | 2012 | |
| 55 | Verma Shlok | ENG | 2012 | |
| 56 | Hill Andy | ENG | 2008 | |
| 57 | Ortiz Sanchez Luis | ESP | 2008 | |
| 58 | Gardiner Eric D | ENG | 2001 | |
| 59 | Cave Iwan | ENG | 1994 | |
| 60 | Bourne Johnathan D | ENG | 1992 | |
| 61 | Larkin Benjamin | ENG | 1986 | |
| 62 | Basson Heinrich | RSA | 1983 | |
| 63 | Gopakumar Siddharth | ENG | 1979 | |
| 64 | Bramson Mike | ENG | 1976 | |
| 65 | Murawski Jan | ENG | 1963 | |
| 66 | Sandhu Manvith | ENG | 1952 | |
| 67 | Gibson Christopher A | ENG | 1947 | |
| 68 | Liu Jack | CHN | 1947 | |
| 69 | Bill Vincenz | ENG | 1940 | |
| 70 | Shenbagakumar Gautham | ENG | 1934 | |
| 71 | Woltery Nicolai | ENG | 1930 | |
| 72 | Wedge David C | ENG | 1927 | |
| 73 | Li Ethan Bingxuan | ENG | 1902 | |
| 74 | Vijayakumar Rishi | SCO | 1867 | |
| 75 | Miller George I | ENG | 1847 | |
| 76 | Karas Eugenia | ENG | 1844 | |
| 77 | Subramanian Anusha | ENG | 1705 | |
| 78 | Cook Ben | ENG | 0 |
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Starting rank list 28th 4NCL Congress Open – U2000:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg |
| 1 | Brocklehurst Andrew | ENG | 1987 |
| 2 | Turner Lewis A | ENG | 1986 |
| 3 | Sangha Manpreet | ENG | 1976 |
| 4 | Bott Simeon | ENG | 1963 |
| 5 | Obi Okwose Marc | ENG | 1962 |
| 6 | Brencher Paul | ENG | 1959 |
| 7 | Garnett John S | ENG | 1951 |
| 8 | Faulkner Martin J | ENG | 1940 |
| 9 | Mcdonnell James J | IRL | 1934 |
| 10 | Daniels David W | ENG | 1921 |
| 11 | Jacob Sydney J | ENG | 1899 |
| 12 | Thynne Trefor F | ENG | 1897 |
| 13 | Bowman Richard L | ENG | 1893 |
| 14 | Gordon Sean | ENG | 1890 |
| 15 | Figueroa Edison | ENG | 1888 |
| 16 | Johnson Richard J | ENG | 1886 |
| 17 | Fearnhead Ben | ENG | 1876 |
| 18 | Hickman John E | ENG | 1869 |
| 19 | Towers Nigel S | ENG | 1864 |
| 20 | Gardner Phillip K | ENG | 1863 |
| 21 | Singleton Luke | ENG | 1859 |
| 22 | Jakhria Kushal | ENG | 1853 |
| 23 | Tomlinson Zak | ENG | 1847 |
| 24 | Dean Robert A | ENG | 1843 |
| 25 | Wheeler Tim | ENG | 1815 |
| 26 | Lewis Evan | ENG | 1802 |
| 27 | Hertog Alexander | ENG | 1801 |
| 28 | Boughen Andrew | ENG | 1799 |
| 29 | Mclachlan Matthew | ENG | 1795 |
| 30 | Pyda Arjun | ENG | 1789 |
| 31 | Coward Neil | ENG | 1787 |
| 32 | Garrett Peter A | ENG | 1784 |
| 33 | Holmes Matthew A | ENG | 1784 |
| 34 | Lekoudis George | ENG | 1775 |
| 35 | Moss Jack O | ENG | 1766 |
| 36 | Nilsson Adam | ENG | 1766 |
| 37 | Passariello Andrea | ITA | 1766 |
| 38 | O’gorman Brendan | ENG | 1762 |
| 39 | Freund Michael P | ENG | 1759 |
| 40 | Chapman Philip M | ENG | 1758 |
| 41 | Sharpe Peter T | ENG | 1757 |
| 42 | Winter Kevin | ENG | 1751 |
| 43 | Acharya Kandara | ENG | 1748 |
| 44 | Sun Meng | ENG | 1745 |
| 45 | Vdovycia Titas | ENG | 1734 |
| 46 | Chantrell Paul | ENG | 1733 |
| 47 | Fisher Neal | ENG | 1732 |
| 48 | Prince Alan R | ENG | 1730 |
| 49 | Dooley Max | ENG | 1728 |
| 50 | Clark Evan | ENG | 1712 |
| 51 | Burns Kenneth | ENG | 1711 |
| 52 | Timbrell Matthew | ENG | 1709 |
| 53 | Berridge Martin | ENG | 1693 |
| 54 | Mcmorran Richard | ENG | 1688 |
| 55 | David Barry AH | ENG | 1670 |
| 56 | Pitt Chris W | ENG | 1648 |
| 57 | Veselow Zoe | ENG | 1641 |
| 58 | Ajimal Jet | ENG | 1627 |
| 59 | Webster Vivien | ENG | 1614 |
| 60 | Sivanandan Bodhana | ENG | 1588 |
| 61 | Loog Tiiu | ENG | 1576 |
| 62 | Isik Muhammed Oguz | ENG | 1547 |
| 63 | Jones Gabriel | ENG | 1501 |
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Starting rank list 28th 4NCL Congress Open – U1700:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | Fearnhead Paul N | ENG | 1694 | |
| 2 | Maher Mike P | ENG | 1693 | |
| 3 | Salisbury Paul | ENG | 1692 | |
| 4 | WCM | Norman Dinah M | ENG | 1691 |
| 5 | Belinger John | ENG | 1685 | |
| 6 | Dos Santos Silva Bruno Alexandre | ENG | 1679 | |
| 7 | Morrish John | ENG | 1678 | |
| 8 | Seymour Paul | ENG | 1674 | |
| 9 | Homer Neil S | ENG | 1673 | |
| 10 | Jenkins Theo | ENG | 1672 | |
| 11 | Gill Gursharanjit S | ENG | 1660 | |
| 12 | Fernando Manel | ENG | 1651 | |
| 13 | Oliver Peter J R | ENG | 1650 | |
| 14 | Harrison Oliver | ENG | 1629 | |
| 15 | Morris Nigel W | ENG | 1619 | |
| 16 | Kirkland Arnold G | ENG | 1614 | |
| 17 | Blower Trevor R | ENG | 1607 | |
| 18 | Duffell Andrew | ENG | 1599 | |
| 19 | Dhillon Tarsem | ENG | 1593 | |
| 20 | Egan William J | ENG | 1589 | |
| 21 | Bullock Lee | ENG | 1582 | |
| 22 | Page Michael | ENG | 1581 | |
| 23 | Ramaraju Siddarth | ENG | 1581 | |
| 24 | Holden Hayden | ENG | 1562 | |
| 25 | Jerome Stellio | ENG | 1562 | |
| 26 | Weersing Nathan | ENG | 1560 | |
| 27 | Watkinson Phil K | ENG | 1552 | |
| 28 | Usher Frank | ENG | 1548 | |
| 29 | Wallman James | ENG | 1530 | |
| 30 | Borissow Magnus | ENG | 1528 | |
| 31 | Madden Jason D | ENG | 1521 | |
| 32 | Gibson Stephen | ENG | 1511 | |
| 33 | Cuthbert Larissa | ENG | 1505 | |
| 34 | Dairi Ramsey | ENG | 1496 | |
| 35 | Mcwilliams Mark D | ENG | 1494 | |
| 36 | Ravi Vash | ENG | 1484 | |
| 37 | Gowers George | ENG | 1439 | |
| 38 | Matilal Tamal K | ENG | 1424 | |
| 39 | Wright George A | ENG | 1407 | |
| 40 | Hylands Keith A | ENG | 1397 | |
| 41 | Gregory Gerald | ENG | 1385 | |
| 42 | Hu Edward | ENG | 1380 | |
| 43 | Dargue Peter W | ENG | 1372 | |
| 44 | Veeturi Yashvardhan | ENG | 1334 | |
| 45 | Gomez Mario | ENG | 1315 | |
| 46 | Khomytska Kateryna | UKR | 1297 | |
| 47 | Glass Andrew | ENG | 1293 | |
| 48 | Butler Rene | ENG | 1267 | |
| 49 | Walker Heather Enid | ENG | 1184 | |
| 50 | Merrifield Peter | WLS | 1115 | |
| 51 | Borissow Alastair | ENG | 0 | |
| 52 | Brown Stephen | ENG | 0 | |
| 53 | Graham Aiden | ENG | 0 | |
| 54 | Khan Khalid | ENG | 0 | |
| 55 | Morris Cameron | ENG | 0 | |
| 56 | Pandya Dhairya | ENG | 0 | |
| 57 | Sibborn Dale | ENG | 0 |
