Scottish 2011

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Alex McFarlane
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Scottish 2011

Post by Alex McFarlane » Sun Jul 10, 2011 1:17 pm

Sunday's Scottish Championship games at

Round 2 boards 1-4 http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r2a/tfd.htm
boards 5-10 http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r2b/tfd.htm

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Re: Scottish 2011

Post by Paul Dargan » Mon Jul 11, 2011 9:35 am

Did anyone notice what Dvoretsky would describe as a Tragecomedy ending to Bd4?

R+RP v's R ..... White needed to play Kf1 (not f3) and park the rook on the f-file to stop the king being checked away and allowing the Black king out of the corner...

Just goes to show, if you keep playing moves, sometimes something turns-up...

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Re: Scottish 2011

Post by John Moore » Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:00 pm

Nice to have live games from the Scottish championship - and great thanks for that. Funny old chess today on the top 4 boards, though. One can understand the draw on board 2. Maybe on Board 3 Paul Roberts and Andrew Green know each other well or just think a quick draw gets an easier opponent tomorrow.

Anyway Craig looks well placed, having already played Keti. I guess Mr Sreeves will be a bit disappointed today but he's still doing really well. I don't understand Black's play on Board 4 - looks like he's been taking lessons from me.

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Re: Scottish 2011

Post by Ben Purton » Fri Jul 15, 2011 6:21 pm

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Re: Scottish 2011

Post by LozCooper » Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:27 pm

Lots of decisive games at the top today: http://rs7.blueapricot.com/scottish/2011/r8a/tfd.htm

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Re: Scottish 2011

Post by LozCooper » Sun Jul 17, 2011 1:01 pm

Round 9 coverage today with the pairings to decide the winner as follows:

1 GM Arakhamia-Grant, Keti 6.0 2464 Dempsey, Anthony 6.5 2201
2 Sreeves, Clement 6.0 2169 Grant, Jonathan 6.0 2204

Games have just started.

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Re: Scottish 2011

Post by Geoff Chandler » Sun Jul 17, 2011 1:25 pm

I'm here looking at the games live and then popping downstairs to watch the games live.

If both 'Grants' win then we will have a husband and wife sharing a national title.
I'm sure that has never happened before.

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Re: Scottish 2011

Post by LozCooper » Sun Jul 17, 2011 1:33 pm

Geoff Chandler wrote:I'm here looking at the games live and then popping downstairs to watch the games live.

If both 'Grants' win then we will have a husband and wife sharing a national title.
I'm sure that has never happened before.
Is there a tie-break or any play-off in the case of first place being shared? I suspect Clement Sreeves would be one of the younger winners if he were to win and share first place...

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Post by John Saunders » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:17 pm

I was just looking at Arakhamia-Dempsey in this position - 6k1/5q1p/Q4Pp1/p2p4/3P4/5N1P/P5PK/2r5 b - - 0 45 - and thinking that Black has real problems defending against all of White's threats. But the engine found 45...Qc7+ 46 Ne5 and now 46...Rh1+!! and, incredibly, it turns out that Black has a perpetual check. There are some mind-bending variations which I won't bore you with. If Tony Dempsey finds this, I'll take my hat off to him.
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Re: Scottish 2011

Post by John Saunders » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:33 pm

He played 45...Qd7 and now I think 46 Ne5 is more or less terminal. A missed opportunity but it would have been a miracle if he had worked out all those variations.
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Post by LozCooper » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:39 pm

John Saunders wrote:I was just looking at Arakhamia-Dempsey in this position - 6k1/5q1p/Q4Pp1/p2p4/3P4/5N1P/P5PK/2r5 b - - 0 45 - and thinking that Black has real problems defending against all of White's threats. But the engine found 45...Qc7+ 46 Ne5 and now 46...Rh1+!! and, incredibly, it turns out that Black has a perpetual check. There are some mind-bending variations which I won't bore you with. If Tony Dempsey finds this, I'll take my hat off to him.
Wow, I hadn't seen that either. Amazingly that idea was once used by Alex Holowczak to save his game in a Birmingham League match between Warley Quinborne and West Bromwich. I was that shocked I blundered into a mate soon after :oops:

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Re: Scottish 2011

Post by John Saunders » Sun Jul 17, 2011 6:51 pm

Kete soon mopped up, and her husband Jonathan agreed a draw shortly thereafter. So Kete Arakhamia wins the Scottish Championship again - well done to her.
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