Tradewise 93th Hastings International Congres was held from 28 Decembre to 7th January in Hastings.
353 players from 27 countries were participating in all the events during the tournament.The event is jointly sponsored by Hastings Borough Council and Tradewise Insurance Services.
Indian grandmaster and two-times Masters winner, GM Deep Sengupta, was here to defend his title and managed to do it after defeating in the last round GM Danny Gormally.The leader before the last round IM Lou Yiping made draw and both players have finished with 7 points.The indian had better tiebreak despite his slow start when he lost 2 games in round 1 and 4.Then he made a great recovery winning his last 5 games.IM Stany G.A. completed the podium with 6,5 points.
Hastings final standings
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | TB1 | |
| 1 | GM | SENGUPTA Deep | IND | 2586 | 7 |
| IM | LOU Yiping | CHN | 2462 | 7 | |
| 3 | IM | STANY G.A. | IND | 2502 | 6,5 |
| GM | VAKHIDOV Jakhongir | UZB | 2500 | 6,5 | |
| IM | DAS Arghyadip | IND | 2451 | 6,5 | |
| 6 | GM | GORMALLY Daniel W | ENG | 2477 | 6 |
| GM | HEBDEN Mark L | ENG | 2445 | 6 | |
| GM | ARKELL Keith C | ENG | 2416 | 6 | |
| FM | DERAKHSHANI Borna | FID | 2298 | 6 | |
| IM | MANNION Stephen R | SCO | 2285 | 6 | |
| ROYSET Pal | NOR | 2208 | 6 | ||
| 12 | GM | FIER Alexandr | BRA | 2576 | 5,5 |
| GM | CHERNIAEV Alexander | RUS | 2436 | 5,5 | |
| IM | WEGERLE Joerg | GER | 2421 | 5,5 | |
| GM | LALIC Bogdan | CRO | 2415 | 5,5 | |
| FM | RADOVANOVIC Jovica | SRB | 2320 | 5,5 | |
| FM | MURPHY Conor E | ENG | 2313 | 5,5 | |
| IM | MUIR Andrew J | SCO | 2297 | 5,5 | |
| FM | PITSCHKA Claus | GER | 2249 | 5,5 | |
| FM | TAYLOR Adam C | ENG | 2242 | 5,5 | |
| FM | BRITTON Richard L | ENG | 2239 | 5,5 | |
| FM | BUCHENAU Frank | GER | 2236 | 5,5 | |
| FM | WALL Tim P | ENG | 2236 | 5,5 | |
| 24 | IM | BATES Richard A | ENG | 2378 | 5 |
| WGM | MAISURADZE Nino | FRA | 2256 | 5 | |
| FM | EAMES Robert S | ENG | 2159 | 5 | |
| WILLOW Jonah B | ENG | 2152 | 5 | ||
| WFM | SUN Xinyue | CHN | 2146 | 5 | |
| BOINO Claudio | POR | 2123 | 5 | ||
| CM | COLEMAN David J | ENG | 2076 | 5 | |
| 31 | GM | KRISTIANSEN Jens | DEN | 2415 | 4,5 |
| OYAMA Akito | ENG | 2185 | 4,5 | ||
| STANISZ Patryk | POL | 2150 | 4,5 | ||
| CM | WOONG Zhi Wei William | SGP | 2137 | 4,5 | |
| VILLIERS Thomas | ENG | 2136 | 4,5 | ||
| ROLVAG Mikael | NOR | 2113 | 4,5 | ||
| WHITE Stuart A | SCO | 2112 | 4,5 | ||
| COOTE Trevor D | ENG | 2104 | 4,5 | ||
| BYRON Alan M | ENG | 2099 | 4,5 | ||
| TER STEEG Marcus Dr. | GER | 2066 | 4,5 | ||
| SUGDEN John N | ENG | 2059 | 4,5 | ||
| BERGER Konstantin | GER | 2041 | 4,5 | ||
| AHLUWALIA Amardip | ENG | 2004 | 4,5 | ||
| WFM | NORINKEVICIUTE Rasa | LTU | 1993 | 4,5 | |
| RAMSTAD Havard | NOR | 1965 | 4,5 | ||
| ROGACEWICZ Mikolaj | POL | 1961 | 4,5 | ||
| CM | DEV Shah | IND | 1877 | 4,5 | |
| SALMONS Calum | ENG | 1756 | 4,5 | ||
| 49 | GRAHAM David B | ENG | 2204 | 4 | |
| ANDERSON John | ENG | 2184 | 4 | ||
| SNAPE Ian L | ENG | 2152 | 4 | ||
| RAYNER Francis | WLS | 2071 | 4 | ||
| TSERENDORJ Batsaikhan | USA | 2066 | 4 | ||
| WILLSON Ollie | ENG | 2057 | 4 | ||
| HEWSON Brian W R | ENG | 2007 | 4 | ||
| STOYANOV Viktor | ENG | 1950 | 4 | ||
| FOWLER David | SCO | 1904 | 4 | ||
| LOCHTE Szilvia | HUN | 1850 | 4 | ||
| HOWELL Oliver W | ENG | 1765 | 4 | ||
| WARNKE Klaus | GER | 1716 | 4 | ||
| 61 | AUGUST Daniel | GER | 2056 | 3,5 | |
| MUNSHI Aditya | ENG | 2001 | 3,5 | ||
| SPANTON Tim R | ENG | 1880 | 3,5 | ||
| RUANE Brendan J | ENG | 1838 | 3,5 | ||
| METCALFE Charlie P | ENG | 1705 | 3,5 | ||
| LOVELL William Pm | ENG | 1688 | 3,5 | ||
| 67 | VERMA Aditya | ENG | 2069 | 3 | |
| PICKERSGILL Adrian O | ENG | 1991 | 3 | ||
| FORSTER Matthew | ENG | 1979 | 3 | ||
| AIM | LARSEN Andreas | NOR | 1953 | 3 | |
| FLYNN David | ENG | 1876 | 3 | ||
| WILSON Matthew R | ENG | 1782 | 3 | ||
| WITT Holger | GER | 1585 | 3 | ||
| 74 | KEARSLEY Raymond J | ENG | 1720 | 2,5 | |
| LALLA Karol | GER | 1600 | 2,5 | ||
| 76 | CHAN Kim Yew | MAS | 2229 | 2 | |
| HAND Freddie | ENG | 2139 | 2 | ||
| DEMPSEY John | ISV | 1911 | 2 | ||
| RAHULAN Thivyaa | ENG | 1825 | 2 | ||
| PAGAMDULAM Munkhdemberel | MGL | 1175 | 2 | ||
| 81 | AIM | RICE Chris B | ENG | 1969 | 1,5 |
| VERMA Shlok | ENG | 1553 | 1,5 | ||
| 83 | EVERETT Joe | ENG | 1922 | 1 | |
| 84 | YOUNG Mel J | ENG | 1839 | 0,5 | |
| 85 | STONE Mark R | ENG | 1591 | 0 | |
| GRAHAM Cassie M | ENG | 1792 | 0 |
