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There are now six leaders at the top of the leader board. Overnight sole leader, Hebden was held to a draw by Bindrich Falko. Malakhatko continued his impressive comeback after the shock first round loss. He has now won four games in a row. Chatalbashev beat Glenn Flear. Stuart Conquest and Nicholas Pert won against Deep Sengupta and Abu Sufian Shakil. Houska held GM Gawain Jones to a creditable draw. Results of Round 5: 1 BINDRICH,Falko (3) HEBDEN,Mark (3½) 0.5-0.5 2 MALAKHATKO,Vadim (3) HASLINGER,Stewart (3) 1-0 3 FLEAR,Glenn (3) CHATALBASHEV,Boris (3) 0-1 4 GEORGIEV,Vladimir (3) LALIC,Bogdan (3) 0.5-0.5 5 HOUSKA,Jovanka (3) JONES,Gawain (3) 0.5-0.5 6 MAMEDOV,Nidjat (3) GORMALLY,Daniel (3) 0.5-0.5 7 BATES,Richard (3) NEVEROV,Valeriy (3) 0-1 8 CONQUEST,Stuart (3) SENGUPTA,Deep (3) 1-0 9 MARUSENKO,Peter (3) TAH...

GM Mark Hebden jumped into the lead after four rounds at the Hastings Chess Congress 2007 - 2008. He beat Simon Williams to collect 3.5 points out of a possible 4. Most of the other top boards were drawn. Top seed Malakhatko is now back in contention and just half a point behind Hebden. Malakhatko beat Gavin Lock. Other notable winners of the fourth round were Gawain Jones over Mehdi Hasan, Mamedov over Gurbanzade, Pavlovic over Kwiatkowski and Lalic over Alan Grant. Leading Standings after Round 4: Mark Hebden - 3.5 Tahirov, Conquest, Chatalbashev, Pert, Gormally, Bates, Georgiev, Sengupta, Lalic, Haslinger, Glenn Flear, Bindrich, Neverov, Mamedov, Pavlovic, Houska, Malakhatko, Radovanovic, Marusenko, Gawain Jones - 3

The lead pairings, Williams vs Tahirov and Sengupta vs Gormally were drawn. Top seed Malakhatko continued his trek back from the shock first round defeat at the Hastings Chess Congress 2007 - 2008. There were some winners from the home team when Mark Hebden, Stuart Conquest, Nicholas Pert, Haslinger, Houska, and others won. Gormally was held to a draw by the young Deep Sengupta of India. The other two leading Indians, Satyapragyan and Roy Chowdhury, lost today to Neverov and Georgiev respectively. Leaders after 3 rounds: Chatalbashev, Falko, Haslinger, Gerogiev, Neverov, Flear, Hebden, Williams, Gormally, Tahirov, Sengupta, Conquest, Pert (2.5 Pts each) Malakhatko, Gawain Jones, Mamedov & others (2 points each)

The pace of upsets subsided somewhat in the second round of the Hastings Chess Congress Tournament. But the Indians continued their rampage. Deep Sengupta beat fifth seed Nidjat Mamedov, Saptarishi Roy Chowdhury drew Stuart Conquest, S Satyapragyan drew against Pert Nicholas. In other notable games, Farhad Tahirov beat Jovanka Houska. Mark Hebden was held to a draw by Andrew Greet. JONES,Gawain beat Poobalasingam to rise up in the standings list.

Tournaments to be held in the near future: Hastings Chess Congress - 28 December 2007 to 6 January 2008 (David Howell,Stuart Conquest, Glenn Flear, Danny Gormally, Valeriy Neverov, Mark Hebden, Nicholas Pert,Safarli Eltaj Nidjat, Mamedov, others ). Contact Stuart Reuben. 50th Torneo di Capodanno Reggio Emilia - December 29th 2007 - January 6th 2008 (Almasi Zoltan, Landa Konstantin, Harikrishna Pentala, Gashimov Vugar, Navara David, Tivjakov Sergej, Ni Hua, Korchnoi Viktor, Marin Mihail, Godena Michele) 6th Parsvnath International Open Chess Tournament New Delhi, 12-20 January 2008 http://www.delhichess.com/