This year's Congress was the biggest ever with 173 entrants playing in the first round.  The previous record was 160 entries (in 1993).
English Chess Federation President CJ de Mooi ('CJ' from BBC2's The Eggheads) attended the Congress on Sunday and presented the prizes.

Crosstables for each section can now be downloaded (see links opposite).

Thanks to the following for their photos (see slideshow opposite): Bob Doughty, Barbara Laws, Brendan O'Gorman, Chris Davison.

Press coverage: East Anglian Daily Times (website).

East Anglian Daily Times (paper)
Bury Free Press

Results and Prizes:

OPEN (39 played)

1= GM Nick Pert, GM Matt Turner 4½ points £ 375 each

3   David Spence 4 £ 150

4= Andrei Timoshenko, Andrew Smith 3½ points £ 37.50 each

Grading u185: Martin Cutmore, Norman Hutchinson £ 25 each

Junior: Isaac Craft, Alan Merry, Sam Walker £ 13.50 each

Best win: Adrian Elwin, Paul Kemp £ 5.00 each

MAJOR (41 played)

1= Somton Ukken, David Brady 4 points £ 187.50 each

3= Julie Kourtseva, Kevin Greenacre, John Daugman, Mark Szymanski, Steve Williams, Graeme Jenkins 3½ points £ 20 each

Grading u155: Robert Dean £ 40

Best win: Richard Lamont £ 10

INTERMEDIATE (53 played)

1   Jeff MacWain 4½ points £ 200

2= Jacob Tulic, Nikolay Lastochkin, Tim Davison 4 points £ 60 each

Grading u130: Colin Solloway, Mark Weidman, Rob Kelly, Phil Sneesby £ 7.50 each

Junior: Benedict Craft, Akito Oyama £ 15 each

Best win: Ashkaya Kalaiyalahan £ 10

MINOR (40 played)

1   Peter Housden 4½ points £ 150

2= Roger Smith, James Xu, Eugene Husband, Dick Myhill, Gorak Rajesh 4 points £ 27 each

Grading u100: Harunobu Oyama, Alan Gardner, John Eddershaw £ 10 each

Junior: Hugo Davis £ 20

Best win: Jan Lengyel £ 10