Category: British Chess Championship 2011
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British Championships – best game contenders!
As promised, here is a shortlist of interesting games from the Championships. This list isn’t anything like comprehensive, I didn’t see all the games and don’t mean to offend anyone who isn’t here and who felt they played a fantastic game; I probably just didn’t see it! This is just a personal snippet of the…
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British Chess Championship – Final words
Well it’s been a week and so I decided it was time for a write-up about the British Championships overall. Before I get into too much depth on that I should say a few words about my last round. I realised that there was a possibility that there was no difference in the tournament standings…
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Round Eight – British Championships
After my loss yesterday I was keen to bounce back in round eight. I was paired against David Howell, a young talent who has matured from being simply a chess prodigy to a well rounded strong player and number four in England. I had the White pieces and decided to try repeating what worked so…
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Round Seven – British Championships
After a great evening at Terry’s we got up reasonably early on the rest day and played some tennis with him and Matt. It was good fun but I think we were all a bit slow after the previous evening! After that Sue and I walked over to the Botanical Gardens which were rather further…
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British Chess Championship – Round 6
Ok.I apologise in advance but I’m typing this during a very bumpy taxi ride out into the countryside. Terry Chapman had kindly invited us to dinner at his hotel this evening along with a few other chess players. All participants won their games with the host Terry drawing with GM Aaron Summerscale – good luck…
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British Chess Championship – Round 5
CHESS: I think we can call today’s game a success. I returned to my beloved Dragon and Mickey played the positional 9.0-0-0. I tried 15…Be6!? which hasn’t been seen so much in over-the-board play but Timofeev did use it to beat the Kalmykian prodigy Sjugirov while a fair few Correspondence players have tried it. Mickey…
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British Chess Championships – Round Four
Hey everyone. I’m writing a quick update personally while I try to get Sue interested in Les Miserables 🙂 My game against Susan Lalic went well today. The opening was an Advanced Caro-Kann and quickly an interesting imbalance emerged with me having the bishop pair but doubled c pawns against her central pawns. It was…
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British Chess Championship – Round 3
Yesterday Gawain drew with GM Stuart Conquest in an opening started out as 1Nf3 c5 2 c3. It was only 25 moves but don’t let that make you think it was a quick and easy draw. It was quite a complicated game and Gawain strayed a bit and was a pawn down in the final…
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British Chess Championship – Round 2
Gawain was in fine form today and his preparation worked well with a good advantage in the opening and managed to convert without too many problems. Something funny that happened is a finger fehler which I haven’t heard of before but it’s when your hand and brain don’t quite coordinate and your hands plays different…
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British Chess Championship – Round 1
Arrived safely at Sheffield and we’re about 5minutes walk away from the venue which is great. The first round started yesterday and the Top 4 managed to win 😉 – I mean, it is strange these accelerated pairings (Never can predict who you are playing) when the Top 4 are still playing after 5 and…