Note: the tournament system was a complicated hybrid between knock-out and Swiss. The system for the first four rounds was single-game knock-out. Players with Black were compensated by giving them an extra 20 minutes thinking time. The time control used for the longplay games was 40 moves in 70 minutes for White and 90 minutes for Black, then 20 minutes for the remaining moves, with 60-second increments per move from the start. 84 players took part in round one, with 42 players qualifying for the second round either by winning their first-round games or else via a blitz play-off. A further 22 players who had been 'knocked out' were then given a reprieve and added to the second round pairings to make it up to the ideal number of 64 for the knock-out system to work. The 22 were chosen in line with a number of other priorities (and it turned out that all who had drawn their first round game qualified for round two anyway). Players still knocked out, or knocked out in subsequent rounds, carried their scores forward and were then paired as per a normal Swiss. From round five, with eight players left in the knock-out competition, subsequent knock-out matches were increased to two longplay games. So all players played ten longplay games. Note that the time control specified above, with unequal time allotments to White and Black, carried forward throughout the event, whether a game was played within the ongoing knock-out system or as part of the Swiss.

Source: BritBase viewer page.