Junior title holder

[Kevin Thurlow]

"The BWCA is still a British title and a good one at that."

No doubt - but it is not THE British title.

I have won various national Civil Service chess tournaments, (from Blitz and lightning, through proper chess to postal) open to all current and former Civil Servants, but I would not call myself British Champion (and the best players frequently did not enter).

I think the press like to talk up the interviewees and it sounds better if they're "champions".

Susan Polgar is always billed as 4-times world champion.

Andrew Flintoff played some junior events so he was duly called a champion somewhere - apologies to him if he won something!

[Simon Bibby]

Knew Rachel a fair few years back. Top lass. She was a decent player. I think she went to a fair few tournaments, including the British, a genuine player as a kid. Wouldn't surprise me too much to read that she had won one of the titles somewhere along the way. Yes, her younger sister Ellie played too, I do recall.
Yes, from South London/North Kent (get confused with the Bromley/Beckenham type places).
Friendly sort too, clearly smart, I wish her well. Politically, seems she may well be going places....cabinet in a few years...?

[David Sedgwick]

Any chance of having [Rachel Reeves] for the Olympiad Loz? :p

If she's in the top five available players then yes. She seems somewhat short on games and graded a long way below recent team members albeit I'm not sure how many of the four grading records below belong to her.

http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=267651F
http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=132314D
http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=151088F
http://www.ecfgrading.org.uk/?ref=157228D

It's nice to see she retains an interest in the game.

Can anyone else see the looming headline:

"SHOCK REVELATION - Leading Shadow Cabinet Member has four identities"

I'm alerting Richard Haddrell.

[Richard Haddrell]

I'm alerting Richard Haddrell

who, alerted, has merged the obvious two.

[Jonathan Rogers]

You'd think she would be expecting some grading points from beating Aronian, Kramnik, Luke and Howell at the same time!