British Chess Championships 2010

[Jon D'Souza-Eva]

http://www.gonzpiration.com/ivory-tower-movie

If you can use Fritz, I can use Google: Pert vs Pert in the British 2001: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1183023 (make sure you're sitting down because it's quite a game).

[Joey Stewart]

I quite like Perts position.

[JustinHorton]

Heh. The present one slightly more entertaining.

[Alex Holowczak]

a. have the brothers Pert met before in the British?

Jack read this, and says that D.Ledger played A.Ledger at one of the Scarborough Britishes.

[Simon Ansell]

I beat both Perts at one of the Britishs, does that count?

[IM Jack Rudd]

I fail at getting an IM norm. Again. I also fail at having a love life, and I fail at having a job, and I fail at having a haircut that doesn't make me look like a lesbian. Other than that, my life is pretty good.

[Jon D'Souza-Eva]

I fail at getting an IM norm. Again. I also fail at having a love life, and I fail at having a job, and I fail at having a haircut that doesn't make me look like a lesbian. Other than that, my life is pretty good.

Well... at least you're good at jigsaws.

[Adam Raoof]

I fail at getting an IM norm. Again. I also fail at having a love life, and I fail at having a job, and I fail at having a haircut that doesn't make me look like a lesbian. Other than that, my life is pretty good.

1. You are already an IM
2. Jobs aren't all they are cracked up to be
3. *
4. You have hair, the cut is up to you

* Not qualified to advise on relationships, at all. I think that a lot of players fall into that category.

Playing / arbiting at the Classic?

[IM Jack Rudd]

Definitely doing one or other at the Classic. Not really interested in arbiting if computer pairings are used, but interested if manual pairings are.

[JustinHorton]

Success isn't all it's cracked up to be either. Being a reasonable human being, far more important.

[John Saunders]

c. are there previous examples of siblings meeting in the British?

Littlewood,J - Littlewood,N [D81]
BCF-ch Whitby (9), 26.08.1964

"Both of us were out for a win in this game; neither of us gives or expects any mercy from the other and we try to avoid a draw at all costs in our games, for obvious reasons" (John Littlewood, CHESS, 22 Sept 1964) 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 g6 3 Nc3 d5 4 Qb3 dxc4 5 Qxc4 Be6 6 Qb5+ Nc6 7 Nf3 Bd7 8 Qb3 Bg7 9 e4 0-0 10 h3 b6 11 Be3 e6 12 Be2 Qe7 13 Rc1 Na5 14 Qc2 Qb4 15 Nd2 Qe7 16 a3 e5 17 b4 exd4 18 Bxd4 Nc6 19 Be3 a5 20 b5 Na7 21 0-0 Nc8 22 Qa4 Be6 23 Bc4 Bxc4 24 Nxc4 Nxe4 25 Nd5 Qd7 26 Rfd1 Qf5 27 Nxc7 Ra7 28 Nd5 Re8 29 Ncxb6 Nxb6 30 Nxb6 Nc3 31 Rxc3 Bxc3 32 Nd5 Rxe3 33 fxe3 Be5 34 b6 1-0

[Gavin Strachan]

In round 5 of the Under 14 Championship, Marcus Harvey defeated Radha Jain, one of the few players who I thought might upset him.

Isn't he that Rastfarian chap? Oh no that's Garvey.

[JustinHorton]

Anybody else think Williams' centre looks an awful lot stronger than Conquest's flank advance?

[JustinHorton]

Well, Stuart does, anyway.

By my reckoning, then, Mickey can't win the title today.

If Mickey plays Simon Williams tomorrow, who would get White?

[John Saunders]

Do people still think Mickey stands significantly better? Personally, I don't see it, though I expect he will prod and poke away at his opponent's position in typical fashion.