British Championships 2012 - Games

Carl Hibbard · Post by **Carl Hibbard** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:47 am

Something is wrong with the moves for sure

Paul Cooksey · Post by **Paul Cooksey** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:49 am

watching the webcam, i don't think so. Good grief qxh7 then f7 looked like a clean win

Richard Bates · Post by **Richard Bates** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:49 am

Ke2 was somewhat strange - Qxh7 and f7 was fairly simple

Andrew Collins · Post by **Andrew Collins** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:50 am

wow, look at the counterplay now!

Richard Bates · Post by **Richard Bates** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:51 am

Must have missed that f7 Rxf7 Qxg6 Rxf2 was check?

Andrew Bak · Post by **Andrew Bak** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:52 am

What an extraordinary game! I'm a bit surprised they have both been playing so quickly, this isn't blitz after all.

Like Kramnik says, rapidplay is still proper chess. Blitz is just random.

My Houdini had Gordon at +8(!) when Gawain blundered his queen, now he might even be losing...

JustinHorton · Post by **JustinHorton** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:53 am

Richard Bates wrote:Must have missed that f7 Rxf7 Qxg6 Rxf2 was check?

I wonder if he either managed to miss ....Bg6, or had some kind of brainstorm and thought that if he promoted the f-pawn it'd be mate.

Richard Bates · Post by **Richard Bates** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:57 am

Andrew Bak wrote:What an extraordinary game! I'm a bit surprised they have both been playing so quickly, this isn't blitz after all.

Like Kramnik says, rapidplay is still proper chess. Blitz is just random.

My Houdini had Gordon at +8(!) when Gawain blundered his queen, now he might even be losing...

To be fair, the position after the Queen went was of a type where computers, even now, could probably slightly misassess. Or at least not be able to appreciate the difficulties for a human player.

Richard Bates · Post by **Richard Bates** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:58 am

Bd4+ wins after Qe4

John Sargent · Post by **John Sargent** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 10:59 am

Richard Bates wrote:Bd4+ wins after Qe4

I was looking at this before Qe4 with Rf1 being huge. This game is pretty exciting!

Martin Benjamin · Post by **Martin Benjamin** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:00 am

Richard Bates wrote:Bd4+ wins after Qe4

Does Rxf3 work too? Followed by Bd4+ and g2+?

Carl Hibbard · Post by **Carl Hibbard** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:02 am

Carl Hibbard wrote:
Paul Cooksey wrote:playoff started
I dislike the Gordon position already

See right again

Paul Cooksey · Post by **Paul Cooksey** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:02 am

John Sargent wrote:This game is pretty exciting!

Yes, but not how you'd hope to see a title decided

JustinHorton · Post by **JustinHorton** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:04 am

No. But what can you do?

Andrew Collins · Post by **Andrew Collins** » Sat Aug 04, 2012 11:04 am

That loss will be hard to come back from

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